26CornerBlitz Posted December 22, 2017 Author Share Posted December 22, 2017 1 minute ago, CLTbills said: I hope the "changes" they're willing to consider include GETTING RID OF IT Not happening, It's money in the owners' and players' pockets as written in the current CBA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLTbills Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 1 minute ago, 26CornerBlitz said: Not happening, It's money in the owners' and players' pockets as written in the current CBA. Oh I know it's not happening. It's just a garbage product. Now, if they wanted to package it so that every team that's playing on TNF has a bye the week before, it'd be different. But you can't do that because there are TNF games every week, and you cant give someone a bye week in week 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 John Ourand of SportsBusiness Journal reports that only FOX, CBS, and NBC submitted bids for the Thursday Night Football package. Per Ourand, ABC was expected to make a proposal, but the network decided at the final minute not to make a bid. Apparently, the network believed it would not be able to turn the product into a profit. Turner also didn’t submit a bid, even though it had made a bid every other time the league had requested proposals for the midweek slate of games. The league was never going to sell the Thursday broadcasts to a cable channel, and Turner reportedly didn’t want to once again provide a false boost to what the winning network(s) will pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Any word on whether Yahoo or Amazon are still contenders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 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 Sure they can; add an extra bye and have no one play a short week - everyone has extra days to prepare for and recover from TNF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Jackson Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 On 12/21/2017 at 10:22 PM, wagon127 said: I feel the solution is to try two bye weeks again. It failed last time because it messed with the team's weekly routine. Thursday night football does that by itself now. Just give every team playing on Thursday a bye before hand. This is the exact solution. They can even take it a step further and make all Thursday games divisional rivals. That should mitigate some of the garbage games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullim4 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Ugh, anyone but Fox. CBS' production quality and announcers are a notch or two better than Fox's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Call_Of_Ktulu Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 I almost never watch Thursday night football unless the Bills are playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 I don't know what all the crying is about. I love TNF, it means the weekend is coming and I'm watching football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyC81 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 6 hours ago, sullim4 said: Ugh, anyone but Fox. CBS' production quality and announcers are a notch or two better than Fox's. Yeah, and when is FOX going to get rid of the robots. I ‘m talking about the CGI robots, not the studio crew or the announcers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kelly the Dog Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) Fox paid average of 660m per year til 2022. About 100m per year above the last contract. I guess the NFL is not dead. Edited January 31, 2018 by Kelly the Dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Wiz Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Honestly any network other than NFLN is good for the league. Having the games on NFLN probably cut down on a lot of viewers since it was a pay for service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, The Wiz said: Honestly any network other than NFLN is good for the league. Having the games on NFLN probably cut down on a lot of viewers since it was a pay for service. Most of the TNF games on NFLN were also broadcast on CBS or NBC depending on what crew was assigned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, 26CornerBlitz said: Most of the TNF games on NFLN were also broadcast on CBS or NBC depending on what crew was assigned. That was only for the local markets I thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, The Wiz said: That was only for the local markets I thought? Not the case. That's MNF you're thinking of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloRebound Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 But I thought a lot of people got their feelings hurt by players kneeling for the anthem and tuned out? Ratings are down across the board for all TV programming. There goes that meme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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