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From: PGage
1. He (and, it seems Adam) was under the impression that the Sunday Night
and Monday Night Football games were the glamor match-ups of the week, and
only diehards (even in the US) watch the Sunday games. My perception is
that while the Sunday Night games are usually good match-ups (and NBC has
negotiated a pretty good deal to make this happen even more often) in any
given week the best match-up is often on Sunday afternoon (or morning, for
me). Are there really a lot of Americans who only watch SNF and MNF, but
pretty much ignore the main games on Sunday? That would seem really odd to
me if true. If I lived in England and liked the NFL, I think I would be
happy to watch at least the early games at what, 6:00 pm? The late games
would then start about 9:15, which is not that much later than when MNF
used to start on the east coast for most of its history. If I only missed
the SNF and MNF games each week I would still be in pretty good shape.
A parallel for #1:
The NFL Network carries 14 of 19 weeks of regular season CFL football
(18-week season plus the bye week), taking August off for NFL exhibition
games. With at most 4 games in any weekend, TSN shows all the games, but
NFLN only shows the Friday evening game or the first game of a Friday night
doubleheader.
An examination of the NFLN schedule on the CFL website
(http://cfl.ca/page/u-s-broadcast-webcast) shows the following:
[Time zone]Team/NFLN Appearances/Canadian DMA
[ET]Ham/5/1
[ET]Mon/5/2
[MT]Calg/5/6
[CT]Sask/4/21 (Regina-Moose Jaw)
[MT]Edm/4/5
[CT]Wpg/3/8
[ET]Tor/2/1
[PT] BC/0/3 (Vancouver-Victoria)
For your consideration:
*Saskatchewan's fan base, Rider Nation, makes up a large vocal minority at
any road game, despite being the smallest province to support a team.
*Toronto has won the most Grey Cups (15) and Winnipeg has appeared the most
(23).
*And of course, the CFL attempted a southern division in the US ('93-95).
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