Should the NFL cancel Thursday Night Football

[pantherclaw]

Not with the revenue it generates.

[electro's horse]

1 hour ago, Kevin Greene said:

They should keep Thursday night football, but have it during a teams' bi week so essentially 10 days between games.

So Sunday game, 10 day off Thursday game, 10 days off Sunday game.

Problem solved.

only if it starts after like week 5

which again wouldn't be a bad thing

[Panthera onca]

That game last night was abysmal. Like everyone on here is saying, if the teams are coming off a bye week, fine. We all know the NFL won't do that.

[Snake]

It's just bad. Football should be played on Saturday and Sundays. With Monday night being the exception. The NFL might want to take over Monday night games too because ESPN is terrible. 

[Bartin]

The games are terrible and all that, but I love having a game on thursday every week

[Millioso7]

It makes the space between sundays less aggravating.. it's the equivalent to pregaming before hitting the bar.. speaking of hitting the bar it's a reason to drag some lady friend to a sports bar on a Thursday night to get drunk watch the start of your fantasy match up before taking her back to your home and smashing the guts.. in other words Thursday night football is simply wonderful.. 

[Hogmolliesmaht]

2 hours ago, *FreeFua* said:

Lol "good defense" good god

Whatever. I enjoyed the game and I'm sure Texans and Clemson fans got a kick out of seeing Watson get his first start. There was a lot of good things going on with Watt and Geno Atkins on each defense too. It's not my fault if you can't appreciate all the good individual match ups instead of just being one of the sheeple who only want to watch the  overhyped games from bigger markets.

[brandon_87]

4 hours ago, Shotgun said:

That wasnt good defense that was bad offence!

And that's bad spelling... offenSe 

[csx]

I changed it to watch some sort of tiny house hunter fix up type show. However I find most NFL games not including the Panthers quite dull. That's the problem with the NFL.

[falconidae]

Only way Thursday night games disappear is if nobody watches them. And, for all of the  complaints about Thursday night football in this thread and on messageboards everywhere, they still get a lot of views.

Personally, I think they should have 2-3 byes a season for each team, make it easy to set up a bye before every Thursday game.  Think they should  also have 18 game schedules with only 2 preseason games. If they're going to charge you full price for the tickets, might as well be real games. You could have a couple of inter-squad scrimmages instead of preseason dreck.

2-3 byes and 18 games means an extra month of regular season football.

[Goondal]

Yes

Only way they should keep it is if the Thursday Night game is only played by teams coming off a bye

[iamhubby1]

 

3 hours ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Probably.  And also go back to just one game on Monday night.

 

    They only do the 2 games on one night on the first night. It's the pageantry, the glitz and glamor, it is getting the season off with a bang. Then it's back to the same ol drudgery of one game between two teams that I could care less about.

 

    Unless it's this Monday. Got my Lions vs the Giants. But for the most part, most folks can't stay awake long enough to finish a Monday night game. Or a Thurs. night game for that matter.

[RJK]

Well taking it off nfl network would boost ratings. I'm fine with it as long as I can watch but I'd never pay for NFLN

[PhillyB]

The market is oversaturated.

Make the Thanksgiving game the first one and then flex playoff implication games into that slot in December.