The Time Has Come

[Hostile]

All of you who buy Sunday Ticket can avoid reading this thread. It would be a waste of your time most likely.

The time has come for the CBS and FOX to both have double headers every Sunday. For years and years now it has been alternating Sundays that one network gets the double header and the other has a single game. You can go all the way back to the days when NBC hosted mainly AFC games and CBS hosted mainly NFC games.

That system is archaic and it only forces some fans to have to watch bad football. How? Because if their regional team stinks out loud, but the network that team is in has the double header, that game is the only one at that time slot.

For example, I live in the Arizona Cardinals stupid shadow. They are in the NFC, which means most of their games are on Fox. If Fox has the double header it means one of my 2 games will be the Cardinals. If they play early on the East Coast that means the early game, and the afternoon games give me a choice. If late, the opposite.

This system is nonsensical. In this day and age it is rare that the fanbase is purely regional. It is time for the networks to not cater to this.

I'm not saying this just because I hate the Cardinals, which I clearly do. I'm saying it because it would increase the popularity of the NFL and boost the networks worth, and therefore increase value of the contracts to the NFL.

Each week both networks have double headers, but only one gets to show theirs. I find that kind of stupid. If I would rather watch the Raiders and Dolphins in the after noon than the Cardinals, there ought to be a chance for that to happen.

The other thing they need to do is negotiate the NFL Network into basic cable packages as opposed to digital. The NFL has powerful appeal, it's crazy that so many fans have to go out to bars or miss those games on NFLN.

Fight harder NFL, give us more entertainment.

 

[windward]

I agree. they changed the Week 17 lineup so each network can show their doubleheaders, no reason why they cannot do it all weeks

 

[Dcowboy84]

totally agree. i just moved down here to phoenix this last summer and was unaware of how it worked down here till now.

but this last Sunday makes two weeks this season so far that i couldn't see the Boy's b/c of this double-header junk

 

[Cochese]

I have Sunday ticket, but since I allready clicked on this thread, I read it any way.

I dont see why their should be more free football on television. I mean why should you get more games that you wouldnt normally get that you arent paying any extra for? Thats the entire reason why you want to get NFL ticket, to avoid watching bad football.

 

[Big Dakota]

Don't you suppose the networks want it that way? Only game in town thing? Just my guess.

 

[Hostile]

totally agree. i just moved down here to phoenix this last summer and was unaware of how it worked down here till now.

but this last Sunday makes two weeks this season so far that i couldn't see the Boy's b/c of this double-header junk

You don't have the game this weekend?

We do here in Tucson. The Cardinals are the early game, the Cowboys late and Fox has the Double. Check your listings, you should have it.

 

[Hostile]

Don't you suppose the networks want it that way? Only game in town thing? Just my guess.

No way.

17 weeks of football. If both had double headers that is 34 televised games apiece.

In this system they have 2 on week 17, and then 2 for 8 weeks of the season and one for 7 week of the season. That is 26 televised games.

They make more money form commercials for football than for any other type of programming.

 

[AtomicDog]

I agree. Where do I sign the petition?

 

[Bizwah]

Yep...I'm not sure who to blame here.

Do I blame the whiny local affiliates?

or

The NFL big-whigs?

or

The FCC?

Anyway, for years my local affiliate showed the Cowboys. Then the stupid Rams moved to StL. Well, I still got to see the Cowboys plenty of times. The schedules of the Rams and Cowboys usually only conflicted once or twice a year.

But then the Cowboys hit the Sucky Years (also known as the Dave Campo-era). Without warning my local affiliate stopped showing the Cowboys. Even when the schedules didnt' conflict, I was unable to watch.

This prompted me to get the Sunday ticket.

To this day, I will not watch my local Fox affiliate unless the NFL makes me. I'll naturally watch on the Ticket....I won't watch American Idol, Simpsons, etc.....My local affiliate costs me $200 a year. I'm sure they show the Cowboys plenty know.....but I'll never forgive them for dumping the Boys.

 

[Dcowboy84]

You don't have the game this weekend?

We do here in Tucson. The Cardinals are the early game, the Cowboys late and Fox has the Double. Check your listings, you should have it.

sorry i meant this last game vs NE i didn't get.

according to our tv listings i'm still getting Philly vs Chicago this week, but i'm hoping that changes with the change in the time of our game

 

[Big Dakota]

No way.

17 weeks of football. If both had double headers that is 34 televised games apiece.

In this system they have 2 on week 17, and then 2 for 8 weeks of the season and one for 7 week of the season. That is 26 televised games.

They make more money form commercials for football than for any other type of programming.

I guess i've never thought about it. So why does the NFL do it that way?

 

[Hostile]

sorry i meant this last game vs NE i didn't get.

according to our tv listings i'm still getting Philly vs Chicago this week, but i'm hoping that changes with the change in the time of our game

Are you kidding me? You didn't have the Pats vs. the Cowboys in Phoenix? That is beyond stupid.

 

[Cochese]

I guess i've never thought about it. So why does the NFL do it that way?

Money. What incentive is there to get Sunday ticket if the NFL decides to put even more games on free TV?

 

[Hostile]

I guess i've never thought about it. So why does the NFL do it that way?

So that local networks can have majority ratings for their local team.

I think NFL Sunday Ticket is evidence by itself that the NFL fans would rather not view football this way.

 

[Dcowboy84]

Are you kidding me? You didn't have the Pats vs. the Cowboys in Phoenix? That is beyond stupid.

couldn't have said it better myself

 

[ajk23az]

Are you kidding me? You didn't have the Pats vs. the Cowboys in Phoenix? That is beyond stupid.

there was paid programming on CBS while the cowboys were on ....i had to go to hooters

 

[Hostile]

there was paid programming on CBS while the cowboys were on ....i had to go to hooters

That's plain stupid.


Not going to Hooters, the Phoenix CBS affiliate.

 

[Nors]

DTV is totally lining NFL pockets and is a reactive enterprise. Cable is a sloth antiquated platform that tries to beat the channels down.

Its same price, better quality, more channels and has NFL package. I am mystified why one would not choose DTV over cable and no NFL package.

 

[Nors]

I'm pretty sure the system was all set up to sell local tickets. Blackout rules and support the local teams market with no competition.

It's been 5 years since I bought DTV and ticket and get them all- worth every $ to me to get all Boys games and able to watch every game also.

 

[AbeBeta]

I'm pretty sure the system was all set up to sell local tickets. Blackout rules and support the local teams market with no competition.

Of course with the Ticket, Sports Bars, etc. the blackout rules just make no sense.

Also, the coverage areas are so broad that I suffer just like some who lives next door to the team. I live about 300 miles from both the local teams - SF and Oak -- What are they going to do? Convince 2 or 3 people from my area to go to the game b/c of a blackout?