NFL Considering eliminating Thursday games?

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NFL might be considering eliminating Thursday games among some other options according to this CBS Sports article

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-reportedly-thinking-about-eliminating-thursday-night-football/

 

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Long overdue....injuries are real....

3 days rest is not enough...

 

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long over too imo nfl is on over-kill mode these days, sometimes less it better

 

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I'll believe it when I see it.

Still a lot of $ to be made with Thursday games.

 

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We will miss it when it's gone

 

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give it back to colleges,,, better that way

 

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They should keep the opening week Thursday night game, and the three games on Thanksgiving. The rest should disappear.

Not sure about keeping the week 1 Monday night double-header.

They need to figure out a way to have flex scheduling for the 2nd half of the season on Monday nights. That would make for better prime-time games.

 

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Hache Man said:

We will miss it when it's gone

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probably true because I recall back in the early 2000's they had some Thursday Night Specials and I always said they should have one every week. In that article it talked about one possibility being to play Thursday night games from Thanksgiving on....that may work

 

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Sun Dodger said:

They should keep the opening week Thursday night game, and the three games on Thanksgiving. The rest should disappear.

Not sure about keeping the week 1 Monday night double-header.

They need to figure out a way to have flex scheduling for the 2nd half of the season on Monday nights. That would make for better prime-time games.

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Love the opening MNF double header....

 

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why not do a friday game instead of a thursday game?

kids that go out friday nights are not a big % of the viewers. It is degen gamblers like us. Kids will still go out after the game

 

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shdw01 said:

why not do a friday game instead of a thursday game?

kids that go out friday nights are not a big % of the viewers. It is degen gamblers like us. Kids will still go out after the game

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it may be against the law

 

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Bring back the Thursday Night announce team of Brad Nessler and Mike Mayock.

They WERE Thursday Night Football in my eyes; hasn't been the same since...

 

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They won't get rid of the Thursday night games, you could have the worst NFL game imaginable and the ratings will still crush whatever show they're going up against, just too much $$$ involved. If anything you'll eventually see the NFL go to 2 bye weeks instead of only one. The NFL won't play on Fridays for the same reason you don't see very many college games on Fridays, they don't want to take away from High School football.

 

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The answer is simple to me. Keep thursday, expand to 18 games, add another bye week. Any team playing on thursday will have a bye the week before. NFL has the shortest season of all major sports. This proposal will extend the bye week and allow for more rest for the players. I think everyone wins. You could probably eliminate 1 preseason game as well.

 

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Friday night is for high school football. Scrap Thursday night. All day Sunday and then one monday night game is fine.

 

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Thursday night games make for some scary fantasy decisions, won't hurt my feelings if they scrap em.

 

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way to many many games for the week in the nfl..all day sunday and monday night is just right, ps the sunday night night game has taken away from the monday night game imo, the nfl i hope is on a fail mode at this time