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NFL considering elimination of Thursday Night games.

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With mounting criticism of the quality of every-week Thursday football, scattered suggestions have emerged in recent weeks that the NFL could pull the plug on the experiment. Those suggestions are stronger than that; per a source with knowledge of the situation, the league will be considering the possibility of ending, or at least limiting, Thursday Night Football.

The current contract with CBS and NBC runs through 2017, which means that changes to the package could be made by 2018 — barring a renegotiation.

The league realizes that, with every team playing once on a short week each season, many of the Thursday games necessarily will have reduced appeal. Adding extra prime-time games to the Sunday/Monday inventory also has created a sense that the league has saturated the marketplace with stand-alone evening games.

Options include (but aren’t limited to) getting rid of Thursday games completely and possibly starting the package at Thanksgiving and continuing it through the end of the season, with games likely to generate broad interest selected in April for November/December programming. Thursday Night Football debuted a decade ago as a device for providing game content for NFL Network, allowing the league-owned operation to generate higher fees from cable and satellite providers.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/11/27/league-will-take-a-close-look-at-thursday-night-football/

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They should figure out something so that the teams playing don't have a short week.  Maybe before or after their by week.  Post Thanksgiving is a good possibility.  I'm glad America is figuring out that setting in front of a TV for 9 hours on Sunday and 6 hours through the week is not very productive.  I watch the Panthers in full and then watch bits and pieces throughout the week.

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Them starting with Thanksgiving and running through the end of the year like they did a while back was pretty good.

 

I really don't mind TNF. Its nice to have an option to watch something on Thursdays. A lot of the criticism comes from people here who are just looking for something to pile on about because they're whining about Cam not "getting the calls" or whatever.

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MNF is bad enough, but its Monday Night Freakin Football!

 

Not only should they kill TNF (with the sole exception being the season opener) but they should delay SNF until week 4 and have it be a pure flex schedule to put it in the best position to be premiere match-ups.

With new teams rising each year and new teams falling, trying to schedule 2 non-flexible prime-time games each week is just stupid.

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actually i like the post-thanksgiving additions. might be incentive to put games with predictable playoff implications in those slots to make them worth watching.




That's what they use to do if I remember....

Thursday night games didn't start till late in the season, usually key match ups.

Speaking of that, what ever happened to Saturday night games? I remember Carolina played Atlanta one season when mike Vick did the magical "float" to the goal line. Why not throw in a Saturday night game instead of Thursday?


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