What time zone do you think is the best for watching NFL games?

CHOPTALK · Jun 28, 2012

I live in the Central zone.
This means all the early games start at 12PM.

I have always lived in the central zone but have traveled to the Pacific zone several times to watch the early games at 10AM.

I think it would be cool if I could do it that way every week.

Sleep in till 9AM on Sunday Morning, watch the pregame shows and then football at 10AM.

For college you guys get to see the early games on saturday at 9AM.
This for me would suck.
I would hate to have to wake up that early to watch college football.

I think the EST time zone is the worst.

Monday night football dont start till 9PM and ends after midnight.

I also would not want to be on the west coast to watch MNF.
6PM is too early.

So I like the CST time zone for everything except for the early Sunday games.

Betallsports · Jun 28, 2012

I will tell you that when I lived in Cali, it was very hard to get use to watching games at 10am on a Sunday morning
Hated it !

shdw01 · Jun 28, 2012

hate it in hawaii.

games start at 7am or 8am depending on DST.
2nd set at 10am or 11am
Sunday night starts around 2-3pm

good cause night is still free to do things, go to dinners and stuff, but bets and fantasy lineup adjustments have to be in before i go to sleep

scottcarter · Jun 28, 2012

shdw01 said:
hate it in hawaii.

games start at 7am or 8am depending on DST.
2nd set at 10am or 11am
Sunday night starts around 2-3pm

good cause night is still free to do things, go to dinners and stuff, but bets and fantasy lineup adjustments have to be in before i go to sleep

I would think that would be the best. Nothing like a good excuse to crack a cold one at 7am

KingofNicotine · Jun 28, 2012

I think Central is probably the best. 10 am is too early for a Sunday but 12pm is just right.

HacheMan · Jun 28, 2012

I have never liked watching football at 10 am in the morning while in Vegas.

I'm used to Eastern time, but think Central is perfect for both day and night games...

Mr_Mark · Jun 28, 2012

Betallsports said:
I will tell you that when I lived in Cali, it was very hard to get use to watching games at 10am on a Sunday morning
Hated it !

Especially when we have to start drinking and tailgating early morning

C.P. · Jun 28, 2012

scottcarter said:
I would think that would be the best. Nothing like a good excuse to crack a cold one at 7am

I used this same excuse on my Maui Honeymoon...yrs ago....lol

Kevy · Jun 29, 2012

I wish I was in the Eastern time zone/3 hours ahead. You fellas have it the best for game starting times.

Games start way too early out here. Examples: 10 am football on Sundays, 4pm starts on weekday baseball
games, 9 am/10 am/11 am baseball starts quite often on wednesdays, thursdays, saturdays, and sundays.
I could go on and on.

Now I know you guys have a slight trade off with Baseball and Basketball games at 10 pm or later, Etc.
But as a night owl I would love that. I need to move to an east coast city and live the dream

Kevy · Jun 29, 2012

shdw01 said:
hate it in hawaii.

games start at 7am or 8am depending on DST.
2nd set at 10am or 11am
Sunday night starts around 2-3pm

good cause night is still free to do things, go to dinners and stuff, but bets and fantasy lineup adjustments have to be in before i go to sleep

Someone in a worse time zone than me for sports..........I still don't feel any better about my time zone

mickj · Jun 29, 2012

Kevy said:
I wish I was in the Eastern time zone/3 hours ahead. You fellas have it the best for game starting times.

Games start way too early out here. Examples: 10 am football on Sundays, 4pm starts on weekday baseball
games, 9 am/10 am/11 am baseball starts quite often on wednesdays, thursdays, saturdays, and sundays.
I could go on and on.

Now I know you guys have a slight trade off with Baseball and Basketball games at 10 pm or later, Etc.
But as a night owl I would love that. I need to move to an east coast city and live the dream

ask Doug to switch places.@)

@)

5teamparlay · Jun 29, 2012

Central is the best IMO

In the east it starts too late... west too early..

jordan17 · Jun 29, 2012

Early bird catches the worm

WestCoast is the best...
I love 10 am games... :103631605

Vegasrunner · Jun 29, 2012

Love the early game times living in pacific time zone

texansfan · Jun 29, 2012

Central, 10am is way too early.

BAGIANT · Jun 29, 2012

After moving from the east coast to the west coast, it took some getting used to watching the NFL. But after a while I really started to enjoy it. It was nice to get out of bed at 7 am and start checking the lines and waiting for my local to open at 8 am. No internet at that time. Best part was that the games ended at 4-4:30 which was before dinner,and there was no SNF at that time. But when they did start playing SNF, it was nice to watch the game while eating dinner.

Same thing with MNF. Would get home in time to check the lines on the net these days, make my bets and sit down to a nice dinner or grab some pizza for take out.

When I went back east of few years ago, it was really hard to stay up for the finish of a MNF game when midnight was closing in! All said and done, I wouldn't trade in watching the games in any other time zone but PST!

celticGreen+ · Jun 29, 2012

I've lived in PST and EST and prefer the east coast... 1pm starts allow for plenty of tailgating if you're at the game. i also dislike finishing the Sunday night game at 8:30pm here on the West Coast - it's weird being hammered from drinking all afternoon, and it being too early to just go home and pass out.

bigtendominator · Jun 29, 2012

Having lived in EST, PST and now CST.

I would rank them in this order (sorry Alaska and Hawaii weren't considered)

Weekends - CFB and NFL -
MST
CST
PST
EST

Weekdays
CST
EST
MST
PST

EstebanOchocinco · Jun 29, 2012

Been to games on the East coast and West coast. I preferred the East coast games

CHOPTALK · Jun 29, 2012

jordan17 said:
WestCoast is the best...
I love 10 am games...

How did I manage not to notice someone with over 46K post before?

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