26CornerBlitz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 10 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said: Not the case. That's MNF you're thinking of. Gotcha. I thought for some reason I wanted to watch a TNF game this year but couldn't since it was only on NFLN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 minute ago, The Wiz said: Gotcha. I thought for some reason I wanted to watch a TNF game this year but couldn't since it was only on NFLN. I believe the Bills at Jets was the only occasion where that was the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herc11 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Dear God, Fox has the worst production of NFL games than anyone else. Their commentators suck, the pre/post game analysts suck, and they always try some stupid gimmick to make it better, like robots playing football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagon127 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 As much as people don't like them. I guess Joe Buck and Troy Aikman may finally call a bills game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/22/2018 at 9:16 PM, Mr. WEO said: Fact: TNF games have fewer injuries than Sunday games and fewer injuries for the teams playing in them after their previous Sunday game. Fact: TNF is still a ratings bonanza for the NFL--more so than MNF. But carry on.... Yes, the one game on Thursday has a lot less injuries than the games combined on Sundays. That's NFL logic 101.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 35 minutes ago, The Wiz said: That was only for the local markets I thought? I believe you are partially correct. Local stations affiliates can and usually do. There were a few not broadcast on CBS this past season and you could only watch it on ch 212. 12 minutes ago, row_33 said: Yes, the one game on Thursday has a lot less injuries than the games combined on Sundays. That's NFL logic 101.... Maybe its because both are too damn tired and are not hitting as hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucci Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 52 minutes ago, wagon127 said: As much as people don't like them. I guess Joe Buck and Troy Aikman may finally call a bills game. http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/fox-sports-nfl-thursday-night-football-games-joe-buck-troy-aikman-erin--andrews-announcer-ratings/1cgziuvhnwyb71mc0cvxtixhm1 Maybe not The network doesn't want to use its No. 1 announce team of Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Erin Andrews for all of the new Thursday Night games, sources told Sporting News. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cripple Creek Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 On 12/21/2017 at 7:09 PM, jr1 said: they can't claim to care about player health and run them out there on Thursdays Does it matter that there isn’t a difference in the injury rate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 hour ago, Kelly the Dog said: Fox paid average of 660m per year til 2022. About 100m per year above the last contract. I guess the NFL is not dead. It's only brain-dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Stampede Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 hour ago, Kelly the Dog said: Fox paid average of 660m per year til 2022. About 100m per year above the last contract. I guess the NFL is not dead. TV as we once knew it is dying, not the NFL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountDorkula Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 12 minutes ago, TheTruthHurts said: TV as we once knew it is dying, not the NFL. Bingo, this is a terrible move for Fox, IMO. The Broadcast companies are losing millions and FOX just said, lets give you more money. Extremely unlikely this is profitable for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Must be nice to have millions of dollars to burn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 19 minutes ago, CountDorkula said: Bingo, this is a terrible move for Fox, IMO. The Broadcast companies are losing millions and FOX just said, lets give you more money. Extremely unlikely this is profitable for them. you have a budget for the actual football content and then you have another budget for the lead-in that football provides 60 Mintues and Murder She Wrote took a bloodbath without the NFL on CBS lead-in for the time in the desert... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Stampede Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 37 minutes ago, CountDorkula said: Bingo, this is a terrible move for Fox, IMO. The Broadcast companies are losing millions and FOX just said, lets give you more money. Extremely unlikely this is profitable for them. But the deal allows them more mobile capabilities I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 40 minutes ago, CountDorkula said: Bingo, this is a terrible move for Fox, IMO. The Broadcast companies are losing millions and FOX just said, lets give you more money. Extremely unlikely this is profitable for them. NFL football has been a loss leader for the four major networks for years. But there’s a method to the madness as carrying the most popular sport on TV has an impact on the lead-in to the prime time programming that they plug during football telecasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 hour ago, CountDorkula said: Bingo, this is a terrible move for Fox, IMO. The Broadcast companies are losing millions and FOX just said, lets give you more money. Extremely unlikely this is profitable for them. Having the NFL is not really about making a profit. NBC learned that lesson a couple decades ago. They let CBS wrest away the AFC and didn't have any NFL for years. They realized how awful it was not to have the cache and the loss leaders and promos. Then had to get back in the game by grossly overpaying for a Sunday Night Package. That did, however, jettison them back in the ballgame so to speak, and then they conned the NFL into giving them the best games, which tore a monster hole into their rival, MNF. But the point is, the NFL is still the biggest thing in broadcasting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 3 hours ago, 26CornerBlitz said: Most of the TNF games on NFLN were also broadcast on CBS or NBC depending on what crew was assigned. Still though, there were five or so games you could only get on NFLN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, Doc Brown said: Still though, there were five or so games you could only get on NFLN. Right. I believe it is going to be that way this coming season, too. Fox is going to produce all of the games. They will likely use their announcers. But I think that about five will not be shown on Fox. They will be, however, on the streaming service the NFL makes a deal with, if they haven't already for next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 3 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: Still though, there were five or so games you could only get on NFLN. Three games from what I see here: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/thursday-night-football-schedule-2017-kickoff-tv-times-streaming-color-rush/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 minute ago, 26CornerBlitz said: Three games from what I see here: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/thursday-night-football-schedule-2017-kickoff-tv-times-streaming-color-rush/ Regardless, this site here says FOX will broadcast 11 games (weeks 4 through 15). It says CBS and NBC broadcast five games each last year. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/313799/fox-wins-thursday-night-football-from-cbs-nbc.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 minute ago, Doc Brown said: Regardless, this site here says FOX will broadcast 11 games (weeks 4 through 15). It says CBS and NBC broadcast five games each last year. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/313799/fox-wins-thursday-night-football-from-cbs-nbc.html The point is that only three weeks were games "exclusively" on NFLN with no TNF in week 17. 3 weeks out of 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 2 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said: The point is that only three weeks were games "exclusively" on NFLN with no TNF in week 17. 3 weeks out of 16. Got ya. So, we'll actually be losing some games with this deal when it comes to being on network television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, Doc Brown said: Got ya. So, we'll actually be losing some games with this deal when it comes to being on network television. Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 2 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: Regardless, this site here says FOX will broadcast 11 games (weeks 4 through 15). It says CBS and NBC broadcast five games each last year. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/313799/fox-wins-thursday-night-football-from-cbs-nbc.html Yep. It's a little confusing for a couple reasons. There are 17 TV weeks in a regular season. It looks like the first three weeks will only be on NFLN. Week 16 and 17 the NFL uses Saturdays because college is done by then. NBC (which had TNF and SNF last year, got a couple of those games, so they may lose one. It will be something stupid like Fox Thursday Night Football on Saturday Late Afternoon.) Plus, on Thanksgiving, a thursday obviously, Fox always has a game, Detroit or Dallas, but that would not be considered TNF. So it looks like they will have 10 actual TNF games and maybe an extra Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 3 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said: Yep. It's a little confusing for a couple reasons. There are 17 TV weeks in a regular season. It looks like the first three weeks will only be on NFLN. Week 16 and 17 the NFL uses Saturdays because college is done by then. NBC (which had TNF and SNF last year, got a couple of those games, so they may lose one. It will be something stupid like Fox Thursday Night Football on Saturday Late Afternoon.) Plus, on Thanksgiving, a thursday obviously, Fox always has a game, Detroit or Dallas, but that would not be considered TNF. So it looks like they will have 10 actual TNF games and maybe an extra Saturday. Thanks for the clarification. I wonder if FOX will get a double header on Thanksgiving? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 4 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: Thanks for the clarification. I wonder if FOX will get a double header on Thanksgiving? Good thinking. That could be the 11th game. That would allow them to still say TNF. IIRC, NBC had the Thanksgiving Night game, and the year before it may have been NFLNetwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 8 hours ago, row_33 said: Yes, the one game on Thursday has a lot less injuries than the games combined on Sundays. That's NFL logic 101.... Wow, it's like you didn't even read what I posted. Anyway, google it yourself. This has already been looked at and is as I posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meistersinger Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 It is simply unforgiveable that any network would bid on the national disgrace that is Thursday night football. Please, MAKE IT STOP!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 31 minutes ago, meistersinger said: It is simply unforgiveable that any network would bid on the national disgrace that is Thursday night football. Please, MAKE IT STOP!! It will effectively be stopped for you if you don't watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFan130 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Did they say who the announcers are going to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 They did not commit to using Buck, Aikman, and Andrews for every TNF game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaista2k Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Fox sucks for football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucci Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 6 hours ago, meistersinger said: It is simply unforgiveable that any network would bid on the national disgrace that is Thursday night football. Please, MAKE IT STOP!! unforgivable? The NFL is big business to these networks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollars 2 donuts Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 1 hour ago, nucci said: unforgivable? The NFL is big business to these networks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Over 29 years of fanhood Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Good. Now that they won it can they move it to Sunday morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 On January 31, 2018 at 10:34 PM, meistersinger said: It is simply unforgiveable that any network would bid on the national disgrace that is Thursday night football. Please, MAKE IT STOP!! Because it's absolute ratings gold. Did you really not know the answer to your question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Punching Bag Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 1 hour ago, 26CornerBlitz said: FOX might give double duty to Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, keeping them as the No. 1 Sunday team and putting them on Thursday Night Football as well Makes sense if both are willing to go along with higher dollar contracts with one of them getting a guest substitute if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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