NFL Considering More TNF Games

[jonathanlambert33]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1812840-nfl-reportedly-considering-adding-additional-thursday-night-games

We need less, not more.

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

Economically, it might make sense. 
 
People can tune into both games on TNF, and there will be less of a pool on Sunday to watch. 

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Economically, it might make sense. 
 
People can tune into both games on TNF, and there will be less of a pool on Sunday to watch. 

 
in what way does that make sense? Nobody likes Thursday Night football. the ratings aren't pleasing the NFL. Why provide MORE games? All this is about is sucking money away from another network. 
 
Remember a few weeks ago there were rumors that Google wanted to get involved with televising NFL Games? Well, Google wants to televise NFL games and the NFL wants to get Google's money because there is a lot of it. If there are more TNF games, expect them one of the games each night to stream on Google. It's stupid, nobody is going to like it, few people are going to watch it, and yet they're going to do it just because they already have way too much money but god forbid they don't get even more. 

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

 
in what way does that make sense? Nobody likes Thursday Night football. the ratings aren't pleasing the NFL. Why provide MORE games? All this is about is sucking money away from another network. 
 
Remember a few weeks ago there were rumors that Google wanted to get involved with televising NFL Games? Well, Google wants to televise NFL games and the NFL wants to get Google's money because there is a lot of it. If there are more TNF games, expect them one of the games each night to stream on Google. It's stupid, nobody is going to like it, few people are going to watch it, and yet they're going to do it just because they already have way too much money but god forbid they don't get even more. 

 
More chance of getting people to watch 1 or the other maybe

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Not really. It's a thursday night. People have work the next morning, they're not staying up to watch the 11 oclock game unless they're on the West Coast and clearly that's never been a good idea since you don't see 11pm games on at all during the season except for like Week 1 for Monday Night. 

 

[Teagz]

Weekday football games are trash.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

That they are.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Before the Chargers visited the Raiders in the first game ever to begin at 11:35 p.m. ET, we suggested that, if enough people were watch the West Coast prime-time game, the league could make it a semi-regular thing.

Enough people didn’t watch.

The league office advises that the audience for the game was a mere 2.5 million, including the local viewers in Oakland, who didn’t watch the game on NFLN. In contrast, the relatively ho-hum October 10 Thursday nighter between the Giants and Bears delivered an audience of 7.8 million — more than triple the late Sunday number.

The audience for the close-to-witching-hour kickoff possibly was inflated by those who tuned in for the novelty of it. If it were a semi-regular event, some of those would go elsewhere (like to bed), driving the audience down.

So, basically, if the NFL is going to look for more places to put cheese in the pizza, it turns out that plenty of people weren’t waiting all day — and night — for Sunday night in the Pacific time zone.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

source?

 

[Teagz]

....or because it was the fucking raiders and chargers.

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

Not really. It's a thursday night. People have work the next morning, they're not staying up to watch the 11 oclock game unless they're on the West Coast and clearly that's never been a good idea since you don't see 11pm games on at all during the season except for like Week 1 for Monday Night. 

I was thinking they were putting 2 games on the same time

 

[Giantmetfan07]

And take AWAY ratings from NFL Network? That's crazy talk. You'd be pitting two networks against each other for the Primetime Audience. It'd be like doing Broncos vs Colts on Sunday Night Football on NBC and then Bears vs Packers on ESPN.