MNF GAME SCHEDULE SERIES

Translation: This gameВ isnвЂ™t getting moved. Last yearвЂ™s Monday nighter, when the Redskins stunk, put together the highest MNFВ ratings in five years. Week 13 : STAY - Cowboys at Redskins - A Cowboys-Redskins game from 2012 is the highest rated SNFВ game in history. So hereвЂ™s how IвЂ™d propose flexing into the final three MNF weeks this year (based on real schedule with the aforementioned concerns considered): But a decent game is far better than a horrible game. There would be the obvious conflicts with the rest of the primetime and national schedules: Thursday nights, Sunday nights and Fox and CBS national games (this is what happens when you stretch yourself too thin, NFL - aka, this is why Thursday Night FootballВ is horrible). Now,В you run the still risk of having a game that looks good after Week 9 becomingВ a dog by mid-December (Vikings-Jets looks like a good one right now, that could easily changed by Week 14), but there will be a far better success rate than making the same decisions in April.

Some fans would be put out but teams could implement a buy-back program for certain fans who were, say, traveling a long distance for a Sunday/Monday game that was switched or were bringing kids to a day game that turned into a game that ends closer to midnight - something thatвЂ™s an issue with SNFВ flex anyway.ДЈ.

MNF GAME SCHEDULE SERIES

I mean, if you schedule World Series and NBA Finals on the fly, why not football with more than a month? How would this work?Дў. If we agree that flexing over 12 days is too tough, surely 45 days could suffice. ChangeВ what games need to be changed and leave them that way. 500 (the Giants).Д«ut how about this compromise: After every team has played half its season (so, right now), flex fourВ games into the last four Monday Night Football spots of the year (Weeks 13-16 - there is no Week 17 MNFВ game). 21 that will feature just one team currently over. That begins a four-week stretch of Monday night games through Dec. 30 Monday night game pairing the Baltimore Ravens, now 2-6, and the Cleveland Browns, who are currently 2-7. Moving staff, flights, hotels, fan travel from Sunday to Monday isnвЂ™t easy. This yearВ saw ESPN get a slightly better MNF slate and after reading this Washington Post piece pondering if there was a way to flex MNF games, we got to thinking about it.

Not a schedule from back in the day - those days and game are long gone, moved to NBC. ItвЂ™s now one of the top broadcasting teams in football, which is fine, but asВ the game is about more than the chemistry and knowledge of the announcers, Thus, MNFВ doesnвЂ™t need saving, but it needs desperate help, as itвЂ™s schedule isВ a frequent disappointment that tooВ often puts on an unwatchable game no one wants to see, such as last nightвЂ™s between the Chargers and Bears.В Oh, the game ended up being fairly entertaining, but how many people stayed up to watch it because it was between two two-win teams? Long story short: ESPN needs a better schedule. Overall, the Mike Tirico/Jon Gruden Monday Night FootballВ has greatly improved since their first season 2009.

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