NFL to have Saturday games if there is no college football

[45catfan]

As long as there is football, I could care less if it's on Tuesday mornings.  A less than 100% normal season is better than 0% football.   I don't get the "it would be very odd, so it's better to cancel the entire season" mentality.  The all or nothing approach utterly baffles me.

[cookinbrak]

Not to per in the collective cornflakes, but where will games take place? The NFL makes money off of the tv revenue, but the stadiums make money off of ticket sales. Unless players agree to play for a lot less, and they pay rent to the stadiums, games would take place at high school fields. 

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, cookinbrak said:

Not to per in the collective cornflakes, but where will games take place? The NFL makes money off of the tv revenue, but the stadiums make money off of ticket sales. Unless players agree to play for a lot less, and they pay rent to the stadiums, games would take place at high school fields. 

Teams get a cut of TV revenue.  Therefore stadium void of fans and TV revenue or empty stadium altogether?  The teams are shelling out for the stadium either way.  Given the choice, they still would like their cut of TV revenue over nothing at all.

[toldozer]

5 minutes ago, cookinbrak said:

Not to per in the collective cornflakes, but where will games take place? The NFL makes money off of the tv revenue, but the stadiums make money off of ticket sales. Unless players agree to play for a lot less, and they pay rent to the stadiums, games would take place at high school fields. 

If you split to Saturdays and sundays the tv money would more than make up for ticket sales so move that money

[trueblade]

1 hour ago, bababoey said:

If they move the college season to the spring how are they going to do the draft next year?  Just move the day or still have it the same time the season is going on and have no combine?  And once the guys get drafted from teams that aren't going to the college football playoff, how many of them say f this and just quit playing until they have to report to their NFL teams OTA or training camp?

I just see problems with this.

If they go with the Spring model, you'll see plenty of guys like Lawrence, Fields, etc. just nope out of the college season and get ready for the draft.

[Waldo]

1 hour ago, jfra78 said:

 

It's not legal for the NFL to play on Saturday while college season is going.  Same for Fridays while HS Football is going.  It's why we have games on Mondays and Thursday.

NCAA should still play on Sunday and the NFL on Saturday. Just an opinion. Like that Thursday games suck and should not happen...just an opinion and not expecting it to change because of the deals that have been made. 

[Snake]

Saturday games are as dumb as Thursday games. 

[Carolina Cajun]

I wonder if they'll scrap thursdays alltogether in the fall if High school is cancelled for the most part as well and just go Friday night, saturday, Sunday, and MNF.  NFL would just dominate the entire sports landscape

[Sgt Schultz]

The NFL used to play a couple Saturday games the last couple of weeks of the season, after the college season was over.  They went away from it and then have returned to it the last couple of seasons. 

From a numbers perspective, if there is no CFB season, it probably makes sense.  Most households generally watch one game at a time (some avid fans may have more than one on with the right cable package, or watch the rolling cuts from one game to another).  Giving them five or six time slots over the weekend instead of three most likely increases viewership overall.  I don't see a problem with it, and the networks will be searching hard for something to fill the gap, if it comes to that.

I might watch more only based on the fact that the increased time slots would have to mesh with times in the weekend I have nothing better to do and nothing better to watch.  But then again, I don't watch any college football on Saturdays as it is, so there might not be an increase in the Schultz household, either.

[Madwolf]

43 minutes ago, Snake said:

Saturday games are as dumb as Thursday games. 

How are Saturday games dumb? It's on the weekend.

 

[Sgt Schultz]

8 minutes ago, Madwolf said:

How are Saturday games dumb? It's on the weekend.

 

Yeah, Tuesday games would be dumb.  Saturday?  Not so much.

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, Sgt Schultz said:

Yeah, Tuesday games would be dumb.  Saturday?  Not so much.

I'm not that big a fan of Thursday games, but neither are the players.

Saturday games are cool, though.

[LinvilleGorge]

More national televised games = better. Everyone hates getting stuck watching some BS match up just because it's the game selected for your local market.

[nogoodbum]

Decision on Saturday games will come from the networks, IMO. If offered a few more million $ per team NFL will jump at the chance & I wouldn't blame them.