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NFL cancels Sunday Night Football (Original Post) Heartstrings Dec 2017 OP
Well, it would have had playoff implications.... LisaM Dec 2017 #1
Why root for any team if the fucking Patriots are going to win it every year? Initech Dec 2017 #6
+1 Johonny Dec 2017 #15
That's the problem with a team winning too much, it gets boring for the viewers ShadowLiberal Dec 2017 #17
Root for Patriots. Problem solved. Justice Dec 2017 #19
Well teams I root for do seem to lose a lot! Initech Dec 2017 #22
Lions play the Packers Heartstrings Dec 2017 #7
I thought that was going to be the Sunday nigtht game? LisaM Dec 2017 #12
The Lions hurt themselves even worse FrodosNewPet Dec 2017 #13
Let him take credit for a business in decline. unblock Dec 2017 #2
"Stand for our national anthem! You are disrespecting our country! Low ratings! Sad!" Initech Dec 2017 #3
This week's game... DonViejo Dec 2017 #4
Thanks! Heartstrings Dec 2017 #8
They're not canceling the game ... they're just moving it to an earlier timeslot n/t SFnomad Dec 2017 #5
Correct RockaFowler Dec 2017 #9
Of course it was him! Trump is the all knowing all powerful master of tis and many other universes. FrodosNewPet Dec 2017 #10
And being New Year's Eve, it only makes sense. Music Man Dec 2017 #11
There were no compelling games or story lines DeminPennswoods Dec 2017 #14
For this week. Blue_true Dec 2017 #16
Some people will show up at starting time and be royally pissed off maxsolomon Dec 2017 #18
Oh! I thought they were cancelling SNF entirely! Iggo Dec 2017 #20
tRump is a fucking moron. He has no clue how football works as is evidenced by madinmaryland Dec 2017 #21

LisaM

(27,759 posts)
1. Well, it would have had playoff implications....
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 03:14 PM
Dec 2017

if the NFL hadn't so consistently screwed the Lions.

This kind of ticks me off, because now I won't get to see the Lions play. Boo.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
6. Why root for any team if the fucking Patriots are going to win it every year?
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 03:17 PM
Dec 2017

What's the point?

Johonny

(20,683 posts)
15. +1
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:45 PM
Dec 2017

I knew in July Miami wouldn't win their division (it's been 9 years of nothing but Pats) and so what's the point of even watching a single game?

ShadowLiberal

(2,237 posts)
17. That's the problem with a team winning too much, it gets boring for the viewers
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:57 PM
Dec 2017

I'm not a football fan (I hate it), but I'm a big e-sports fan, and e-sports tends to have this same issue in International tournaments. Teams from South Korea (where e-sports are a bigger thing, hence they can draw in better players) are almost always heavily favored, North American teams are often considered a joke, even the best North American teams tend to struggle against the weakest European and Korea teams to qualify.

LisaM

(27,759 posts)
12. I thought that was going to be the Sunday nigtht game?
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 03:23 PM
Dec 2017

Even if it doesn't have implications, I'd like to see my team play, and, being that I'm in Seattle, they won't show it now.

FrodosNewPet

(495 posts)
13. The Lions hurt themselves even worse
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 03:25 PM
Dec 2017

No consistent running game. Could not convert on 3rd and short. And while TE Eric Ebron made a strong finish at the end of the season, he was a liability for a while.

I hope they can turn it around next year. But the Lions themselves were more at fault than the refs.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
4. This week's game...
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 03:16 PM
Dec 2017
NFL cancels Sunday Night Football this week

The NFL has canceled the final Sunday night football game of the season. Don't worry, no one was going to watch anyway.

Next Sunday's game had two disadvantages: The games all had a likelihood of being dull by the time Sunday night rolled around. And this coming Sunday is New Year's Eve, a day when historically few Americans watch television.

The last time the NFL held a Sunday night football game on New Year's Eve was in 2006, when the Chicago Bears hosted the Green Bay Packers. It was expected to be quarterback Brett Favre's last game with the Packers (and widely expected to be his last game ever). Still, only 13.4 million people watched that game, about a quarter fewer than the average Sunday Night Football game that season.

Since the last Sunday night football game also happens to be the final game of the season, the NFL tries to schedule a game that will definitely have playoff implications for one or both of the teams playing. (A team that already made the playoffs might sit their starters, leading to an exceptionally boring game.)

-snip-

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
9. Correct
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 03:19 PM
Dec 2017

All of the games at 430p have playoff implications. It's cool that everyone will be watching the scoreboard at that time instead of waiting until midnight

FrodosNewPet

(495 posts)
10. Of course it was him! Trump is the all knowing all powerful master of tis and many other universes.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 03:20 PM
Dec 2017

It has nothing to do with the fact that it would be a game with no playoff implications on New Year's Eve, meaning low ratings. It's fake news to believe anything else.

Music Man

(1,181 posts)
11. And being New Year's Eve, it only makes sense.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 03:22 PM
Dec 2017

With an 8:30 p.m. game, going past midnight is not out of the question--NO ONE would be watching during that time. And presumably, NBC will want to have some Times Square coverage.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
16. For this week.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:56 PM
Dec 2017

The Sunday night games that had good matchups did well. I hope the NFL keep it for next season, but allow schedule flexibility so that a Pittsburg-New England game can be Sunday night instead of opposite say LA Rams-Seattle - both game were compelling this year and it was clear that they should not have been scheduled during the same time slot.

maxsolomon

(32,987 posts)
18. Some people will show up at starting time and be royally pissed off
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:27 PM
Dec 2017

That happened to me - the Sounders moved the start up an hour. Who checks to make sure the time on the ticket is still valid? Only saw 45 minutes.

If you show up at 8:30 pm for the NFL, though, you'll miss the entire game.

Iggo

(47,487 posts)
20. Oh! I thought they were cancelling SNF entirely!
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:18 PM
Dec 2017

I was gonna say, "No! Cancel Thursday football. Sunday's fine."

madinmaryland

(64,920 posts)
21. tRump is a fucking moron. He has no clue how football works as is evidenced by
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:41 PM
Dec 2017

how he ruined the USFL, back in the 80's. Once again, he is a fucking moron.

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