They could have made it a night game in London, starting at 6 and we'd have gotten our normal 1pm start. I'm guessing it's packaged very heavily for British TV as a promotional thing so they put it at the normal time to get kids in the audience for the whole game. Why they don't do that with Sunday Night, Monday Night and Thursday Night is beyond me. This is the first year my 13 year old nephew is allowed to stay up to watch the Steeler night games. I'd think the NFL would want the 9-12 year old audience more than anybody else, since those are the people that represent the future consumers of the product. It's not like they'd lose anybody else with 7PM kickoffs. In fact they'd gain more people watching the entire game instead of tuning out at halftime because they have to get up early the next day.
I think games should be played in London, but no regular season games...At least not until a team is completely out there. It's what EPL teams do in pre season, they play overseas
Does anyone remember when the Jets played in Tokyo? It was the early 2000s and it was the pre-season, if I remember correctly. Compared to that, this is no big deal. Just get up early and start drinking earlier than usual!
remember the game in japan? It was actually pretty fun getting up before the sun did on the east. Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk
I didn't see that. I saw the falcons game though w.e year that was. Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk
The NFL wants you constantly watching from 12pm-12pm EDT. That would mean you might you would only watch from 12pm-10pm.
This is a good point but it still leaves the kids out of the nighttime audience and a business should never leave it's future customers out in the cold if it has an option. The over saturation thing is real also. Depending on the teams I may watch the evening games but I'm rarely around for the 3rd quarter. It takes something like the first game of the year or a playoff game to keep me watching past 10 o'clock unless the Jets are playing.
It should be yes. I don't get it either. Although I'm usually up early on Sunday's and don't mind the Jets going at 930 so I can focus on fantasy football the rest of the day lol
If you're a Jets fan and a fantasy player you have something like 15 straight hours of football coming at you on Sunday.
Agreed but kids also live in Pacific Time / Mountain time, albeit not at the population level of Eastern Time. You're right about over saturation. I feel like the NFL never ends during the off season, and during the season, my life revolves around it. MNF, Tuesday FFB waiver claims, Wednesday waiver results, TNF, Friday (off day) Saturday College, Sunday all day from noon to midnight.
The 9-12 year old's aren't realistically going to have their own money to spend for another 6/7 years as they get older. I don't mind the early wake up - in fact I am looking forward to grabbing breakfast and bringing it back to the house to sit my ass on the couch. Bacon egg and cheese with a cold beer haha.
