Kevin L Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 League will take a close look at Thursday Night Football Posted by Mike Florio on November 27, 2016, 1:39 PM EST With mounting criticism of the quality of every-week Thursday football, scattered suggestions have emerged in recent weeks that the NFL could pull the plug on the experiment. Those suggestions are stronger than that; per a source with knowledge of the situation, the league will be considering the possibility of ending, or at least limiting, Thursday Night Football. The current contract with CBS and NBC runs through 2017, which means that changes to the package could be made by 2018 — barring a renegotiation. The league realizes that, with every team playing once on a short week each season, many of the Thursday games necessarily will have reduced appeal. Adding extra prime-time games to the Sunday/Monday inventory also has created a sense that the league has saturated the marketplace with stand-alone evening games. Options include (but aren’t limited to) getting rid of Thursday games completely and possibly starting the package at Thanksgiving and continuing it through the end of the season, with games likely to generate broad interest selected in April for November/December programming.Thursday Night Football debuted a decade ago as a device for providing game content for NFL Network, allowing the league-owned operation to generate higher fees from cable and satellite providers. As the source explained it, the money generated from NFL Network due to the annual slate of exclusive games isn’t large enough to make it an impediment to broader efforts to strike the right balance between giving national audiences enough, but not too much, pro football — and to ensure that games played in prime time are truly worthy of being seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly12 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Friday or Saturday Night Football would be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0mShane Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 100% a dead end product. Bad games, overesaturation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet_Engine1 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Kill it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Get rid of it. Football on Thursday night should only be for week 1 for the defending super bowl champions and thanksgiving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRy56 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Thank god! The NFL is learning from their mistakes. TNF is a watered down product and it is hurting the game. It's got to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fibonacci Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Kill it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetfan39 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 1 hour ago, joewilly12 said: Friday or Saturday Night Football would be better. can't do it while college and high school games are active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinc855 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I love tnf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 keep it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastineau Lives Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 They're aiming for that Tuesday night market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freemanm Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 It's another example of just how out of touch Goodell is. As a fan, I love TNF, but it really isn't good for the players and increases chances of injury, plus really isn't fair to teams given how little prep/rest time it gives them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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