The Giants get another gift, for the 3rd time in 5 years they will only have to play 7 road games. It's amazing, they have brand new outdoor Stadium at the University of Minnesota but they move it to Detroit where they will be no fans in the stadium and if there are they will be rooting against their div rivals.
The Gophers stadium is shut down and winterized for the year. It would take a week just to drain the antifreeze from the water pipes and flush the system.
Interesting that I haven't seen anyone post the reason the game was moved. The dome in Minnesota caved in. Minnesota Metrodome Caves In Under 17 Inches of Snow
Cakes, each channel always shows at least one game on Sunday afternoon. The Giants was going to be the FOX game on Sunday afternoon, but FOX wasn't going to left with no NFL on Sunday in the NY/MIN markets, so they replaced it.
No kidding? I hadn't realized this before. Only been watching since the mid-1980s. I had (erroneously) thought that because yesterday was a CBS national Sunday, that the Minnesota and NY markets were going to be without a game yesterday due to the Giants-Vkings game being postponed. Those markets were initially scheduled to only get one FOX game for Week 14. Those markets got their one game- but on Monday night. So that's why I thought what I thought. But, you learn something new once in a while. FOX had advertising that they expected to/had to sell and it absolutely had to be on Sunday I guess. Or something.
They have some luck, don't they? If that was us the game would have been moved to Tehran during Ramadan.
And Francesa would still be lying about how we got a gift cus we didnt have to face a hostile environment despite Mark Sanchez getting assassinated for eating pork fried rice.
I know you know that, but I was saying that even in situations where the game they expected to show gets moved in a rare case like this one, they still will show a game on Sunday afternoon. When a network has a "singleheader", it's referring to Sunday only. Because of this rare situation, FOX did get to show an extra game, but that's the least of the league's concerns, with Minnesota having to refund all tickets to the game and giving away tickets to the game in Detroit for free.
I have Sunday Ticket so what games are shown locally does not usually concern me. This is the reason why I have no recollection of what game FOX showed in NY on September 18, 2005. The Giants AT Saints game was scheduled for that Sunday at 1:00 and then had to be moved to Monday night and became Giants at Saints at Giants. Do you recall which game FOX showed in New York? It could have been Lions-Bears, Vikings-Bengals, or 49ers-Eagles.
Plese enlighten me on the 3 games its been since 2005? I know the Saints one, which was bush and the Giants would have won anyway, and of course tonights, but whats the 3rd? The London game? Where more South Floridians via NY would have been at anyway?
No, I don't remember which game it was. What got somewhat overlooked was that today was one of the only times where NFL games not on Sunday afternoon were deliberately scheduled to conflict (as opposed to a game running long/going into overtime). I can count on one hand the amount of times it's happened during my days of following the NFL.
I am wondering if there was one. It was a similar situation as yesterday. Since GB-DET was shown in NY yesterday presumably per something in their contract with the league, I'll assume NY got one of the three aforementioned games on 9/18/05. 9-19-05 Giants at Saints at Giants Redskins at Cowboys 10-27-97 Bears at Dolphins Packers at Patriots Any others?
if that was us they would have moved it to New England or Miami. It's amazing, the 3rd time in 5 years the Giants have only played 7 road games. There is an incredible bias for certain teams and the Giants are one of them. I know this was a unique situation but they could have found a way to make as hard as possible for the road team instead of making it as easy as possible for them. Yes the 3rd was London, would there have been Giant fans at the game in Miami? of course but the Stadium still would have been 70-80% dolphin fans which was more than the neutral site game in another Country.
I was at Fins/Giants 93 at Joe Robbie, if it was 50/50 thats generous, place was mobbed with Giant fans. Anyway that London game is a set game by the league each year. The Jets will eventually get one and I guarantee they too will be the road team. Pats had it, this year Denver and San Fran. It is what it is.
I don't buy that for a second. I get the reasoning behind the Lon don game but 2 years earlier the Giants were given an extra home game, they should have lost one and been the home team in that London game. only 7 road games(plus 9 home games one of those years) in 3 of the past 6 seasons is outrageous.
Next year they play a "road" game against us at the Meadowlands. Another tough travel week for the Giants.
We alternate those games so every 8th year we get one of those too but at least they will be facing us w/ mostly our fans in the building unlike the last 3 "road" games that weren't road games they played.
