On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, Jim Ellwanger wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Brad Beam wrote: > > > I can’t think that NFLN would go head-to-head against a network > broadcast. Perhaps NFLN could take a West Coast game, as they did with the > Raiders’ Sunday late-night game several weeks back. > > However, there are only four West Coast teams, plus two in the Mountain > time zone. Either those 6 teams end up on Thursday nights much more often > than the other 26, or some games get played in the Eastern and Central time > zones with late start times, or they have the two Thursday night games > going head-to-head to some extent. > > On that middle option: granted, "Monday Night Football" kickoffs were > just past 9:00 Eastern for years, but with today's longer game times, if > they were going to do the second game of the doubleheader at 9:00, they'd > probably want to start the first game at 5:30 or even 5:15 to avoid > overlap, and that seems a bit early. >
I would not put it past the sociopathic NFL to start game 1 at 7:00 ET, game 2 at 10:15 ET, and having Central Time Zone teams host game 2 with a 9:15 local start. Again: the very idea of any regular Thursday night schedule is evidence of the sociopathic nature of the league. Remember: the only reason they created the Thursday package and gave it to NFLN was to justify the NFLN's costs that it hadn't made up yet as part of selling the idea to team owners. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
