Not diggin it either. I liked it when they begin doing it late in the year. I gotta pick my teams in my suicide pool on Wednesday afternoon. On to football tho, I think if this is going to be the norm, they need to expand the rosters to 55 or 57 players.
What the hell? Too much football? I'm watching the Yankees, but if I weren't, I'd be watching the NFL. It's annoying with pools and fantasy football, but I don't see why suicide pools need to be done by Thursday. If you want to pick a Thursday team, fine. If it's a confidence pool, put that pick as a loss and make it worth the max amount of points. For fantasy, no reason why waivers should all happen Thursday, put the Thursday players on waivers Thursday and have everyone else follow on Sunday/Monday.
Some of you sound like my wife..."Football again! But you just watched football a few days ago!" C'mon man!
I'd rather they have a weekly Saturday night game. I also think it's bad for the players, or at least most of them have stated as much. It's got to be hard to strap on the pads again four days after beating the crap out of your body.
I hate thursday Night games, it's fine for the opener, fine for Thanksgiving and maybe a late week or 2 but I hate it every week.
I just hate the every week thing. It used to be normal. College would be the one having weekday games sometimes (almost always thursday) and I could watch that if I wanted football during the week. Stupid NFL Network. Suicide pools they usually let you pick later. It's the other ones. The pick'ems and stuff, some of them big money contests, and they make the first game Thursday and you have to make every pick before the first game. It's very frustrating. Not to mention for fantasy players. The NFL had a tradition going back a long time. Football is for Sunday and Monday, except for once a season for a few teams on Thanksgiving. Now teams are constantly having to play Sunday and then Thursday.
This is the only part about it that I don't really like. Less chance to rest up injured guys and just practice in general.
The office pool I am in had some sort of silly deadline. I went to do my picks at 7:32 last night and found out the deadline had passed. So no picks for me this week. In another thread on this topic I wrote that I do not like too many Thursday games. I much preferred the Paul Tagliabue era NFL schedule.
oh yeah I have that with two of my pools this year. Deadline an hour before the game. You try to reason with these people and you get nowhere. Why the deadline needs to be an hour in advance I seriously don't get.
I love it. The more NFL the better. I never understood why they crammed all the games together on Sunday. If it were up to me there would be Saturday night football and probably Friday as well. The more days with games the merrier. I also wouldn't be opposed to rotating schedule where there is a game on every night, and each week the teams back up a day or 2 to adjust to the schedule. As long as it avoids teams having to playing 2 games within 6 days, it's win win. Of course you'd need to hire smart scheduling people, because right now they are terrible and it's obvious they don't put much thought into it..
Absolutely - I always looked forward to the last week or two of the season when there would be NFL games on. The justification given then was that the college season was over and the bowls hadn't started, so they weren't going to hurt the colleges. Nothing has changed in terms of that. Having Saturday games through December would be much fairer to the players in terms of wear and tear, and a much more level playing field for all of the teams. The NFL could get 8 extra games in as well, just like they did with Thursday games until this year. The problem is that they probably would have to give them to CBS and Fox (which NBC might not like), and it would cost them the primary programming on their own network that people actually care about (other than the Red Zone channel).
The NFL legally cannot schedule games on Fridays and the league cannot have Saturday games while major college football is scheduled. There have been some exceptions through the years such as a Titans-Dolphins game that had to be moved up due to hurricane concerns.
Hence the Thursday abominations, which only exist because the NFL Network wants a carrot to be able to sell its product. I don't mind Thursday games the opening week of the season and Thanksgiving, every other week it's silly. Yeah it's great for the fans to have 'another' day to watch football, not so great for the players and coaches - especially the players.
Me too! I used to plan a "Xmas Shopping" :beer: trip every year with my friends and we'd spend most of the day at a sports bar watching football (After the obligatory ride by the mall so we could say "Too crowded to shop today boys")!
I hate it. It leads to bad football. Teams get one day in pads to practice for a Thursday game. Go back to Sunday and Monday night.
didn't think i would care much about it either way. but the way my thursday night schedule worked out i am loving it. and since the only person i care about is me, i hope it never changes
