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.
The NFL and the NCAA figured they could make even more money with Thursday night games, but I think even in a football loving country games shown on weeknights is a little too much to take. I like football but do I want to catch a Mid-American Conference college game on a Tuesday or Wednesday night on ESPN. There is something special about football since teams play just once a week. No other sport has a buildup of anticipation by its fans more than college and pro football. Leave Friday nights for high school games, all day Saturday for college and Sunday for the pros. I think there is some oversaturation of the sport right now!
Dilbert San Diego wrote:
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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.
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I agree. For decades, the NFL had mastered the art of leaving fans wanting more. When the scheduled games all took place on Sunday, with the exception of the lone Monday night game, it built up tremendous fan anticipation and excitement from week to week.
But then the league, team owners, and TV networks wanted to keep increasing profits and eventually spread out the schedule to cover Thursday nights, Saturday nights (once the college football season is over), and sometimes a double-header on Monday nights. Couple this with increasingly “thuggish” and criminal player conduct on and off the field, constant and annoying rulebook changes and protocols, and the ever increasing infusion of leftist politics and political correctness into the NFL (and even its TV commercial ads) in general, this once wonderfully run organization has “jumped the shark” and fans are finally starting to turn away in droves. As long as the NFL continues to bury its head in the sand and refuses to acknowledge and address its real problems, then I hope this mass exodus of viewership continues.