[dowcaet]

Thursday Night Football was a bad idea. The only Thursday football we should ever see is on Thanksgiving. The ratings are gonna stink for this one. I’ll be watching baseball instead!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Maybe it’s too much, to have expanded to Thursday night football. Is it possible to saturate the market with NFL football?

I don’t know about ratings for a better matchup with marquee teams on a Thursday night. But maybe overall there’s just too much, which can cause erosion of the ratings. How much football can America watch?

So we have Thursday night football, some college games on Friday nights, college games all day Saturday, NFL games all day Sunday, including Sunday night football. Then there’s Monday night football.

Maybe it’s all too much.

[newfreep]

London NFL games are even worse than Thursday Night Football.

Football is American - no games in London, Meeheeco City, ....

[GSWarrior]

At the very least the NFL should kick off its season on Sunday

[Dr. Sivana]

Thursday Night Football was a bad idea. The only Thursday football we should ever see is on Thanksgiving. The ratings are gonna stink for this one.

Yup. First it was Sunday afternoons 1PM starts in each time zone (except for a handful of games on Saturday after college season ended).

Then they added Monday Night Football. Fine. It's like what Friday Night Fights used to be, and a way to see teams you don't see in your local market.

Then Sunday Night Football and Thursday Night Football, and expanded playoffs, 12 teams instead of 8. Besides the extra week of playoffs and a net +4 new teams, the BYE week and the expanded schedule made the season 20 weeks long instead of 17.

Then NFL ticket, satellites, NFL Network and the Internet came along so you could see ALL the games, not just a local game or two, and a game of the week. Instead of NFC on CBS, AFC on NBC, and MNF on ABC...FOX, ESPN, NFLN, Amazon, Twitter(!) and more I don't know about get added to the mix.

Can we say OVEREXPOSURE?

And that is besides the Kapernick-type garbage, that is a catalyst to make the whole thing crumble. They had me at the pink socks, and this year men kissing on NFL PSAs.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I’ll be watching cross-country skiing, figure skating, or the farm report instead.