What’s with the dueling Monday Night games?

[OZBILLS]

I want to watch both. Don't like this

[chongli]

This is the first year there has been more than one week of two MNF games (in fact, three this year) and the first time it is so late in the season.

45 minutes ago, Tuco said:

It's week 14. Almost all of the tens of millions of fantasy football leagues around the world have their final regular season matchups this week. Fantasy players don't care about whether the game on TV is a good matchup. They care about their players and their opponents' players. In my 12-person league there are 10 teams who have players playing tonight. Five of those teams are still battling for position (regular season places/payouts plus playoff positions) and tonight's games will be the final deciding factor. 

 

ABC/ESPN no doubt realized this is one week where a lot of people will be watching whether the games are dogs or not. No doubt they paid for an extra game this week because they know millions of watchers will be using the back button as they switch between games, depending on who has the ball. And it's no big deal for a sports bar to have two games on instead of just one. 

 

That's my guess anyway. Pick the week 14 game in April. If it's a dog there will be the regular number of viewers plus a handful of extras rooting for their fantasy players. Make it two games in week 14 and have a better chance of at least one of them not being a dog, plus double the handful of extras watching as they pull for and against multiple players.

 

 

 

This is the exact explanation I heard on some show on Fox Sports Radio this week.

[Mr. WEO]

Tommy Cutlets needs his own time slot...

[IronyAbounds]

It sucks for those who love to watch football regardless of who is playing, but if you're mainly a fan of your team I doubt it makes much difference. If the NFL really wants to get innovative my suggestion is to allow viewers to pick the game they want to watch at a particular time period rather than just assigning games to particular regions. Bills games are appointment tv for me. Otherwise, I really don't care all that much. The Bills-Eagles game is a good example. AZ didn't get that game so I only was able to watch the end of the game (as painful as that was). Before that I barely paid attention. Perhaps they don't want to hurt the Sunday Ticket or NFL Redzone, but I actually think overall ratings would be better.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

1 hour ago, mannc said:

You’re going to change your mind when the Titans give Miami all they can handle.

Titans giving the Dolphins 'the business'? 🤔

 

[Allen2D̶i̶g̶g̶s̶TBD]

If you're gonna schedule 2 games at the same time, thet should just let all 4 teams play on the field at the same time. Something like this:

 

Edited December 11, 2023 by Allen2Diggs

[djp14150]

1 hour ago, CaptnCoke11 said:

Neither game is appealing 

 

based on last years results they were as potential WC teams going head to head.

[stuvian]

It's not enough for the Park Avenue corporate swine to scoop all the national advertising dollars. Now they want the local advertising dollars in all their markets too.

[DallasBillsFan1]

Me no likey.  One game at a time.

[benderbender]

1 hour ago, DallasBillsFan1 said:

Me no likey.  One game at a time.

At least double box it. The lack of a 2 window feed is insulting. Especially if you've paid for both channels. 

[T master]

They are trying to prepare and see what it will be like when they get the European teams & the Mexican, and South American teams just how much they can saturate the American public with football when they get up to like 40 teams .

 

More is always better so push it as much as possible right to the limit Roger ...

[PetermansRedemption]

Stupid idea. Why would it ever make sense to have two prime time games on at the same time? Do one at 6:15 and one at 8:15. Or 7 and 9. Stagger by a minimum of an hour, ideally two hours. Not sure what they were trying to experiment here? They are just cannibalizing their own viewership. 

[without a drought]

I think people don't really care about this, they just want to B word about everything and anything.

[theRalph]

Many of us have the ability to record multiple games, so we can watch each one. Why the phuuck does ESPN split the screen between the two games....for several minutes at a time. Stuuuuupid.

[Punching Bag]

19 hours ago, Simon said:

 

I'd love the idea if both of the games were good; or maybe even if just one of them was good.

Although I do think they should offset the kickoffs by about 20min so you could fully enjoy the end of both.

 

Good idea but that does not always work since you can have overtimes and some games just run faster with a lot of running plays.

I'd love a split screen with subtitles on muted game but since my sports package does not have ESPN and NFL Network I choose package with NFL Network.

1 hour ago, benderbender said:

At least double box it. The lack of a 2 window feed is insulting. Especially if you've paid for both channels. 

 

They are trying to convince people to have less channels.

Yes their reasoning is schizoid. 

[DCofNC]

5 hours ago, T master said:

They are trying to prepare and see what it will be like when they get the European teams & the Mexican, and South American teams just how much they can saturate the American public with football when they get up to like 40 teams .

 

More is always better so push it as much as possible right to the limit Roger ...

Product is already diluted, any more and it’ll be the NBA.  Seems to be what they want though.

[Mr. WEO]

I thought it was great.  But I guess if you don't have a remote control it would have been a real pain to get off the couch every few minutes to turn the channel knob to switch games....

[zow2]

Big fail to me.  would have been much better, staggered like 45-60mins apart. 

[chongli]

 

Edited December 13, 2023 by chongli