The NFL owners are meeting now and came up with a flex plan for Thursday night games. I'd just as soon get rid of them and go back to a 16 game schedule, but that will never happen.
The NFL has taken another step toward ensuring the best possible games will be played in front of the largest audiences.
NFL owners on Monday approved a modified proposal allowing for flex scheduling of Thursday Night Football games, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported.
The resolution comes with strict requirements: Thursday games can only be flexed between Weeks 13 and 17, with a four-week notice required. Only two Thursday night games can be flexed per year, and the resolution notes that the flexible scheduling for TNF is on "a trial basis."
Trial basis ... yeah.
The Bears have a bye on week 13 so no flex there. Weeks 14-17 are DET, CLE, ARI, ATL, all Sunday games except CLE which is a TBD. I could see maybe flexing DET but I doubt ARI or ATL are flexed. While both the Bears and Browns have rabid fan bases it would be a stretch to flex them in to a Thursday night game as they would not necessarily have the national appeal like some other teams.
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
I voted for it may work, but the it may screw up my schedule part I don't buy into as much
Thinking about it a bit more I should have voted choice 2. Set them at the start of the season and set them in stone. Fan will be picking games, buying tickets getting hotels or VRBOs and making arrangements to take off work. How crappy is it going to be that someone makes plans to attend a Sunday or Thursday game and then the NFL changes the day after they've done everything to get to go to the game.
I personally LOVE Thursday games. Tends to be a night that I can get together with friends and hang out. That said, I do prefer them to not be Bears game.
It's for weeks 13 through 17 and teams have to be notified 30 days in advance. Teams have come out against it as messing up travel plans. I'm assuming a fair number of fans would feel the same, especially ones who might come in from out-of-town for a Sunday game but now can't. Haven't seen too many Thursday night games which were worth more than a bucket of warm spit.
Eberflus, Getsy, and Poles' should have had their bags packed and car waiting to take them to airport by halftime of the Chief's game
Easy vote for me, get rid of the Thursday games. Absolutely hate them and hate when the Bears are on Thursday. Usually miss the games and they are never good when I do watch them. Sundays are great, Mondays are tolerable. We don't need more days of football than that imo
Somebody I knew explained watching football to me this way one time….
During the football season there are high school games on Friday nights. College football all day long on Saturday. The NFL for three games worth on Sunday with noon, 3pm and 7pm. Then the Monday night game.
If you need football on Thursdays on top of all that, maybe there’s something wrong with you.
The cigarette has been passed from Jay Cutler to Justin Fields.
The Marshall Plan wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 11:32 am
If you need football on Thursdays on top of all that, maybe there’s something wrong with you.
My wife can also add in a bunch of other stuff. Mostly quoting movie lines when I answer a question she asks.
At the risk of this thread devolving (not that that ever happens here) here's a few quotes from a favorite movie, one with a Bears flavor:
"She may be scrawny but she's strong. Had a baby come out sideways and didn't even scream."
"Here's a quarter, go buy a rat and have him gnaw that thing off your face."
"Where's your other hand?"
"In between two pillows."
"THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!"
"... how about those Bears, gonna go all the way this year."
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
The Marshall Plan wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 11:32 am
I voted it was a money grab.
Somebody I knew explained watching football to me this way one time….
During the football season there are high school games on Friday nights. College football all day long on Saturday. The NFL for three games worth on Sunday with noon, 3pm and 7pm. Then the Monday night game.
If you need football on Thursdays on top of all that, maybe there’s something wrong with you.
It's absolutely a money grab, because the NFL is all about the $$. That's why I voted that way too.
Ideally, though, the answer would be to limit the Thursday games to teams coming off bye weeks, and start them (after the post-Labor Day Thursday debut) after the first set of byes in Week 4 or so.
wab wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 10:30 am
I like thursday games because I like watching football. I like when the Bears play on thursday because I like watching the Bears play football.
wab wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 10:30 am
I like thursday games because I like watching football. I like when the Bears play on thursday because I like watching the Bears play football.
Thursday night is bad football though.
It's like beer, pizza, and sex - even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
It's like beer, pizza, and sex - even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
2 of those three are not good when bad dude. You may have to cleanse the palate. Hell even the third can be pretty not okay if it's bad. I'm a bit worried about you.
If the NFL is so concerned with player safety then don’t ask players to play on 4 days rest. They are so full of it.
As a fan, it’s just too much. I hate when the Bears are on Thursday games - and Thanksgiving. It’s less an issue when they have a Texans vs Colts snooze fest, I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.
I dunno, I kind of like it when the NFL gives me a weekend off. If I'm watching the bears on Sunday I'm watching football the entire day... If there's no bears game I'm free.
RustinFields wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 8:48 am
I dunno, I kind of like it when the NFL gives me a weekend off. If I'm watching the bears on Sunday I'm watching football the entire day... If there's no bears game I'm free.
dplank wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 8:45 am
If the NFL is so concerned with player safety then don’t ask players to play on 4 days rest. They are so full of it.
As a fan, it’s just too much. I hate when the Bears are on Thursday games - and Thanksgiving. It’s less an issue when they have a Texans vs Colts snooze fest, I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.
Thought I read that there aren't a disproportionate amount of new injuries from Thursday games. But the short amount of time from the previous Sunday isn't giving guys the amount of time they need to heal from the pounding much less more severe injuries.
Eberflus, Getsy, and Poles' should have had their bags packed and car waiting to take them to airport by halftime of the Chief's game
RustinFields wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 8:48 am
I dunno, I kind of like it when the NFL gives me a weekend off. If I'm watching the bears on Sunday I'm watching football the entire day... If there's no bears game I'm free.
Fair point
It is a fair point. For my preference I'd still want to watch ball all day long because I love it. But the excitement level is nowhere near, and on a beautiful fall day the outdoors wins over non-Bear games. And I DO like telling Annie in advance which weekends the Bears are not playing on Sunday so we can do other stuff we like to do in the fall. She is super chill about me watching as many games as I want, so I want to reciprocate when the price is low for me. LOL
I voted I really like the new Thurs Flex rule because one of my beefs about Thursday night games is they just aren't often consequential.
2023 Chicago Bears... emerging from a long hibernation, and hungry!
Definite money grab by the NFL. Making sure they have a numbers making match-up on their TNF.
Sad side-note...With the Bears getting more Prime Time games on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, it make being an international fan difficult. 3:00 AM games on a Monday Morning is just no bueno for me. A 2:00 AM Friday morning game is doable as I do not work on Fridays anymore.
It is a fair point. For my preference I'd still want to watch ball all day long because I love it. But the excitement level is nowhere near, and on a beautiful fall day the outdoors wins over non-Bear games. And I DO like telling Annie in advance which weekends the Bears are not playing on Sunday so we can do other stuff we like to do in the fall. She is super chill about me watching as many games as I want, so I want to reciprocate when the price is low for me. LOL
I voted I really like the new Thurs Flex rule because one of my beefs about Thursday night games is they just aren't often consequential.
On a typical Sunday obviously our game is the priority. Then I hope and pray Tony Romo is calling the CBS game which is mandatory viewing for me. I absolutely love listening to Tony Romo call games. My wife and I were watching golf the other day and Jim Nantz was calling it. I was talking about how for one tournament they should pair Romo and Nantz up for the weekend.
Then during the week I'll watch what I think is the Game Of The Week on NFL Game Pass.
The cigarette has been passed from Jay Cutler to Justin Fields.
It is a fair point. For my preference I'd still want to watch ball all day long because I love it. But the excitement level is nowhere near, and on a beautiful fall day the outdoors wins over non-Bear games. And I DO like telling Annie in advance which weekends the Bears are not playing on Sunday so we can do other stuff we like to do in the fall. She is super chill about me watching as many games as I want, so I want to reciprocate when the price is low for me. LOL
I voted I really like the new Thurs Flex rule because one of my beefs about Thursday night games is they just aren't often consequential.
On a typical Sunday obviously our game is the priority. Then I hope and pray Tony Romo is calling the CBS game which is mandatory viewing for me. I absolutely love listening to Tony Romo call games. My wife and I were watching golf the other day and Jim Nantz was calling it. I was talking about how for one tournament they should pair Romo and Nantz up for the weekend.
Then during the week I'll watch what I think is the Game Of The Week on NFL Game Pass.
