I know this is about player safety but these Thursday games IMO are just too much

ESPN/ABC has basically destroyed MNF. Horrible production values, a uninteresting crew calling the games and they've destroyed what made MNF so great...it was THE game of the week (I know years ago) And their game lineup totally blows, zero interest

the NFLN games are produced better but they have spread the schedule out so thinly that "Sunday" is less important than ever as a NFL fan

so while the league thinks they are giving people what they want, in reality they are diluting their product and losing the so called casual fan

I get that most on this board are diehards and will watch whenever and whatever they put out there but I really think the league is going down a path of failure....in many many different ways

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Posted by blueslover

deeper than deep south

Member since Sep 2007

22792 posts

Posted on 9/15/12 at 1:00 pm to stapuffmarshy

PFT Florio responds-

We’re glad someone else finally sees the largely-ignored debate lurking at the heart of the bounty case. If the allegations are true, Saints players were being offered money to do something they already were going to try to do anyway: Knock opponents out of the game with clean, legal hits. But now there’s a second debate that largely will be ignored — whether it makes sense to make every team play a game on three days’ rest, and whether it’s fair to have two of them play 25 percent of a four-month schedule in a 17-day window.

more here

For me it is all about greed. The more the NFL gets on it's own network the higher the profit margins- and control of the substance. Related: nfln got rid of Mike Periera doing the controversial calls review this year. Why in the world would they do that?

I love the Saints and the NFL game but dislike at least 75% of the changes in direction. Baseball was once America's Pastime. Boxing was once relevant and the casual fan could name the heavyweight champion. Decades from now we might see an old school football league rise up and challenge the NFL (sumpin like UFC to boxing) if it continues down the path to flag football.

This post was edited on 9/15/12 at 1:09 pm

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Posted by poke215dx

Metairie

Member since Dec 2010

99 posts

Posted on 9/16/12 at 6:40 am to Brettesaurus Rex

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I really like thursday night football as a fan, but as a player it must suck. I think they should make it to where you only play a Thursday night game after a bye week.

I agree with the bye week, but I do not like thursday night football. Sooner or later we are going to have to pay to watch every game on tv.

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