I find myself wanting to watch Sunday night football more than I ever do on Mondays now. I like the announcers better on Sunday also. I like the pre show too. Gruden makes Monday almost unbearable to watch.

I find myself wanting to watch Sunday night football more than I ever do on Mondays now. I like the announcers better on Sunday also. I like the pre show too. Gruden makes Monday almost unbearable to watch.

 

I like both about the same. Depends on the matchuops for me. I'm interested in seeing Luck tomorrow night. I don't see him that much due to them playing usually at the same time as the Bengals. Cowboys/skins tonight just another game to me. I like Sunday Pre-game much better, though.

Monday Night Football is horrible. Sunday Night Football has taken the throne.

Games are not as good on Monday

It has. In the "old days" you saw ONLY a game or 2 at 1:00 and a game or 2 at 4:00.

 

So Monday was a big deal.

 

Now with the ability to watch any and all games that you wish to watch Monday is simply not that big of a deal. Between the Friday night high school game you go to, the plethora of college games you watch on Saturday , and then the games on Sunday you're mentally tired of football by Monday night.

I wish every game had its own time slot. I know I am a minority on this.

 

7 & 10 Thursday

7 & 10 Friday

10, 1, 4, 7, 10 Sat. & Sun

7 & 10 Monday

 

On Bye weeks take away the 10am games on Sat & Sun w/ 4 byes add thurs 7 take away on 6 teams byes

 

I believe they would crush high school and college and probably why they wouldn't.

Actually, they would crush themselves. NFL games draw tens of thousands of dollars per 30 second commercial. Some spots in the 100k +, and Super Bowl adds in the million + range. Saturate the market and that money goes way, way down. There are only so many advertising dollars and the NFL currently does a great job maximizing it. The owners however, feel that the point of oversaturation has already been exceeded and is negatively impacting ticket sales.

 

Also, the last thing the NFL wants to do is crush interest in college and high school football.

Actually, they would crush themselves. NFL games draw tens of thousands of dollars per 30 second commercial. Some spots in the 100k +, and Super Bowl adds in the million + range. Saturate the market and that money goes way, way down. There are only so many advertising dollars and the NFL currently does a great job maximizing it. The owners however, feel that the point of oversaturation has already been exceeded and is negatively impacting ticket sales.

 

 

 

Also, the last thing the NFL wants to do is crush interest in college and high school football.

 

I agree they do not want to hurt the college and high school game, but they could. Really, I never believe it will happen for a variety of reasons. I just like the NFL that much that I'd like to see every game live.

Only way to make it better is to let MNF have the flex option like SNF does. SNF gets to pick the game they want, MNF should be able to do the same instead of picking the games preseason.

Monday Night Football is horrible. Sunday Night Football has taken the throne.

 

It seems to me that Sunday Night football gets the much better matchups over the last few years. It always seems to be a bigger game on Sunday nights. Monday night matchups have very few games that really stand out lately. I love Gruden on Monday nights, however the Sunday night games are much better.

I do think Monday Night Football has lost a bit of it's luster.

 

With the "flex" scheduling of important games on Saturday late in the season, Sunday Night Football getting a prime time slot, and the implementation of a Thursday night game each week, there are more viewing options for even the most casual fans. Thursday night games are probably better for people who want to have viewing parties/go out and watch games, and by the end of the week, people are potentially even burnt out on football (considering the Thursday game, Friday night high school games, Saturday college games, and smorgasbord of games on Sunday).

 

I think the selection of games and times has cannibalized a good portion of the Monday Night Football ratings, but overall, the visibility of the sport probably hasn't been better. I would also think that the parity of the league as it stands now has effected Monday Night Football, if nothing else in selecting the primetime match-ups and/or how viewers appraise the MNF match-up.

 

You'll still have people who watch Monday Night Football just because it's Monday Night Football, the casual viewers who'll only watch a good game, and the portion of people who'll tune in (but probably not "watch" the game in a strict sense) because of someone they have in fantasy.

Only way to make it better is to let MNF have the flex option like SNF does. SNF gets to pick the game they want, MNF should be able to do the same instead of picking the games preseason.

 

SNF can only do that for the last six weeks. Now granted that's six weeks more than MNF can, but that doesn't explain the heightened interest of SNF compared to MNF at this point in the season.

Only way to make it better is to let MNF have the flex option like SNF does. SNF gets to pick the game they want, MNF should be able to do the same instead of picking the games preseason.

 

That is a logistical nightmare for people planning to attend the games. Bought tickets for a game you thought would be played on Sunday morning while you attend a conference in x-city? Too bad, game is moved to Monday night when you have to be back at work, sorry about your luck.

 

I bought tickets to the Colts-Texans game in Reliant Stadium this year and would be pissed if it was moved to a Monday night when I couldn't go.

 

Doing that would mean that the games people most want to see (i.e., winning teams with playoff implications) would be the ones most likely to be re-scheduled, while the ones that people are less likely to attend (games with no playoff implications and/or no realistic chance of being one that will matter) would stand pat. You'd be hurting the attendance of your better games and keeping the ones which aren't as likely to be attended in their same spot.

 

At least when games are flipped to a Saturday or are moved to a later time-slot, it doesn't effect things like travel plans for attendance, etc. as much.

By the way.

 

This coming Sunday (I think) - Peyton and the Broncos at Luck and the Colts.

I'd be interested to know the pecking order for selecting games among the networks. I feel what's happened is that NBC has been granted top priority to choose games before the season begins, then top priority again when flex scheduling rolls around. Then I feel like Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football are somewhere midway down the totem pole because the networks don't want to give up all their marquee matchups.

 

I mean really, tell me with a straight face that they ever thought Seattle/St. Louis (in two weeks) was a matchup worthy of MNF. Or Miami/Tampa Bay (Week 10). Some of the good games they've had so far they totally lucked out on, like Jets/Falcons.