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Originally Posted by RickC Sniper
It is also because ESPN now has the Monday night contract, but has no Sunday games so switching a game to a different day a few weeks in advance isn't going to happen. When ABC had the Monday night gig perhaps that was possible.
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no I was saying they should be able to (like they used to do) switch the games so the lame duck teams they had would move to a regular sunday kickoff and they would take one of the good sunday games and move them to the prime time Monday spot.
as to your point, yes its locked up a year in advance because now the networks are in control where in the past it was the nfl that selected which teams got the featured spots on "prime time". espn would love to have a better game but nbc and fox don't want to give up a good game for a lame one even if it wouldn't be their featured game
its just so sad that the sunday and Monday games that used to be the games of the week you looked forward to have become just another ho-hum who cares whos playing tonight game
I have never had and never will have nfl network so I never see a Thursday game unless its my local team but the whole idea of a Thursday game is just unfair to the players and coaches since there is no time to rest, plan, scheme, and practice to properly prepare to face another team so soon after playing a sunday game the week before. they did away with the Saturday games strictly because of the preparation issues it caused teams and then they turn around and throw in Thursday games to try and make more money knowing full well the teams playing come in unprepared to give 100%.