News: NFL weighing Saturday games if college football doesn't resume in fall

jazzcat22 · May 5, 2020

Doomsday said:
I am sure SundayTicket will be really pleased if they give away more games, undercutting them.

Good, time the take away that option from them. They need to allow other avenues to show games.

jazzcat22 · May 5, 2020

Reverend Conehead said:
Gee, I don't know. If they're not playing college football because players need to be protected, don't the NFL players need protection as well? If some NFL players end up dying from coronavirus, that would be a huge black eye for the league. I'm not thrilled of the prospect of a canceled season, but I could live with that a lot better than some players getting killed. They could suspend play, and maybe we get lucky and a vaccine comes out; then they can resume with a shortened season. I remember when one of our D players hit an opponent really hard and then that guy was lying lifeless on the turf and I thought, "Oh, crap, did I just see a player get killed?" Fortunately, it didn't end up that way, but it put into focus. I love the game, but it's not worth having anyone die for.

Oh, much more risk to spread on a college campus? Many more fans at a game, then go to campus and be around all the students, and in classes. as opposed to people going to work in which they are not elbow to elbow with each other. Have some sort of distance, as well as office cubicles. Except in sweat shops where people don't care anyway.

Hawkeye0202 · May 5, 2020

Doomsday said:
I am sure SundayTicket will be really pleased if they give away more games, undercutting them.

Honestly, I've said many times, if there ever a time to offer Sunday Ticket to ALL FANS this is it. Considering what the country is going through ALL FANs should have access to ALL games at a bare min price ( no more than $50-75 bucks for the entire season) IMO.

Hawkeye0202 · May 5, 2020

aikemirv said:
Direct TV gives a lot of it away for free anyway and just raise their package prices it seems

Need to shut Direct TV package down for a year.......lol. Hell just offer games for fans via NFL.com at min price.

Reverend Conehead · May 5, 2020

aikemirv said:
I would love to see the death rate for males under 35 in prime athletic shape. That said, a lot of those lineman probably fall in the obese category so you may be right!

The tough thing is that this is such a new virus that there's a lot about it that's unknown. Other diseases have been around for years and so much is known. They're talking about playing games in empty stadiums, and that protects the fans, but of course not the players or coaches. Younger, healthy people are less at risk, but there could be other risk factors we don't know about. Plus, the coaches are out there too, and they're generally older. The whole thing makes me nervous. I'm honestly glad it's not my decision to make.

Hawkeye0202 · May 5, 2020

DakPresgoat said:
I think it’s the difference between “amateur” students playing the game. And highly paid professional adults playing the game.

Exactly .....parents have the power to kill the idea...easy (lol).

KJJ · May 5, 2020

Personally I don’t like watching football on Saturdays. I like going out and playing golf and doing other things on Saturdays. Sundays is my day for football. It’s a day to just chill at home and watch football all day.

aikemirv · May 5, 2020

Hawkeye0202 said:
Exactly .....parents have the power to kill the idea...easy (lol).

From the data coming back, a college student would have the same chance as dying from the flu and kids don't even transmit it.

KingintheNorth · May 5, 2020

Doomsday said:
I am sure SundayTicket will be really pleased if they give away more games, undercutting them.

NFL just gave away NFL Pass for free with all of this going on.

I could see them making all games available for 1 year. Free advertising for DirecTV, as well as the good will and positive PR, and the NFL makes even more money from their advertisements reaching a larger audience.

Hawkeye0202 · May 5, 2020

KingintheNorth said:
NFL just gave away NFL Pass for free with all of this going on.

I could see them making all games available for 1 year. Free advertising for DirecTV, as well as the good will and positive PR, and the NFL makes even more money from their advertisements reaching a larger audience.

Exactly........

Hawkeye0202 · May 5, 2020

KJJ said:
Personally I don’t like watching football on Saturdays. I like going out and playing golf and doing other things on Saturdays. Sundays is my day for football. It’s a day to just chill at home and watch football all day.

Well then ........what's more important? Your Dallas Cowboys or golf....... :laugh:

KJJ · May 5, 2020

Hawkeye0202 said:
Well then ........what's more important? Your Dallas Cowboys or golf.......

Romo used to get that question a lot.

aikemirv · May 5, 2020

KJJ said:
Personally I don’t like watching football on Saturdays. I like going out and playing golf and doing other things on Saturdays. Sundays is my day for football. It’s a day to just chill at home and watch football all day.

Yep, I would be depressed if I sat around and watched football Saturday AND Sunday. I already feel guilty enough vegging on the couch Sunday. That's why the only way I ever watch college football is the Saturday night game or a taped game that I really wanted to see.

KJJ · May 5, 2020

aikemirv said:
Yep, I would be depressed if I sat around and watched football Saturday AND Sunday. I already feel guilty enough vegging on the couch Sunday. That's why the only way I ever watch college football is the Saturday night game or a taped game that I really wanted to see.

An entire weekend of hanging around the house watching football would be too much for me. I’m not a big college football fan anyway. If there’s a great college match up I’ll DVR the game and watch it later that night. I DVR Saturday NFL playoff games and watch them later. I have a friend who’s a diehard NFL and college football fan so he never leaves the house on the weekends.

JayFord · May 5, 2020

Give me all cowboys games at 1pm Saturday or Sunday

i do not not like waiting for night games especially if the team plays poorly that night

TheSkaven · May 5, 2020

So think about this - if these kids can't play football this year, why not let them enter a supplemental draft? Do you really want to force the soon-to-be seniors to sit out an entire year without playing a game? Is that a good idea?

I say skip next year's draft and do a supplemental draft in August and let these kids come into the NFL. Expand rosters.

No college football has a lot of unforeseen complications...

Hawkeye0202 · May 5, 2020

KJJ said:
Romo used to get that question a lot.

Yea I know ....lol

sunalsorises · May 5, 2020

Maybe the NBA can borrow NFL players to complete their season. MLB can use NFL players to begin theirs. Apparently playing in the NFL is the vaccine for covid.

KingintheNorth · May 5, 2020

KJJ said:
Personally I don’t like watching football on Saturdays. I like going out and playing golf and doing other things on Saturdays. Sundays is my day for football. It’s a day to just chill at home and watch football all day.

You could still do that except any Saturdays they put the Cowboys games on.

This would be taking some of the Sunday morning games and afternoon games that you aren't watching, depending on your region, and putting them on Saturdays.

So instead of 8 games being on at the same time Sunday at 1 PM Eastern, where you can only watch one or switch back and forth if you have Sunday Ticket, you'd only have 4 or 5 games on at the same time.

You could still do whatever you want on Saturdays because you weren't watching all 8 simultaneous games on Sunday morning. For the more avid football fans, who were used to watching college football games on Saturdays, they would get to watch more games.

_sturt_ · May 5, 2020

Florio:

"... As the source explained it, that most likely would entail making specific games available on Saturdays exclusively via Amazon Prime or ESPN+, with streaming platforms paying a premium for content that would entice zealous NFL fans to in turn pay the premium necessary to watch the games. Those games would be removed from the FOX and CBS Sunday inventory, with the networks receiving a rebate (which would come in handy this year, given reduced advertising revenue) and with the NFL expecting to make back that cash and more via the next wave of broadcast deals.

"It’s also possible that the league would expand its in-house Game Pass feature to include live Saturday games, selling the content directly to consumers who would, given the absence of college football, quite possibly fork over the kind of collective cash that the traditional broadcast networks couldn’t or wouldn’t for Saturday games.

"However it plays out, don’t expect to see Saturdays play out like Sundays, with free content on three-letter networks (except in the home markets of the teams who play on Saturdays). The broadcast networks simply won’t want to buy those extra games, because it will be virtually impossible to for the broadcast networks turn a profit in the current climate.........."

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-if-not-would-likely-move-games-to-saturdays/

That's plain irrational.

There is no TV network inventory more valuable than live sports and all the more so if other sources of network inventory are also reduced and/or in delayed production. And there is no more valuable live sports than the NFL.

Or, am I the one being irrational???

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