Friday Night Game

There are things in football that should simply never happen.*

The NFL should never play on a day other than Sunday or Monday. The NFL should never, ever play on Thursday - that is reserved for college.

College should never, ever play on Friday night - that is reserved for High School.

But the NFL is playing on Thursday and college is playing on Friday. And its sad and desperate.

* Thanksgiving/post-season excepted.
 
We should have a ST get together and watch the game, maybe hudson grill in Brookhaven or taco Mac somewhere!
 
00Burdell said:
There are things in football that should simply never happen.*

The NFL should never play on a day other than Sunday or Monday. The NFL should never, ever play on Thursday - that is reserved for college.

College should never, ever play on Friday night - that is reserved for High School.

But the NFL is playing on Thursday and college is playing on Friday. And its sad and desperate.

* Thanksgiving/post-season excepted.
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Problem is everyone wants to grow, no one is ever satisfied with what they have.

At least the NFL hasn't gone to an 18 game season yet.
 
Ill be listening while at a High School game. College Football on a Friday night is dumb.
 
00Burdell said:
There are things in football that should simply never happen.*

The NFL should never play on a day other than Sunday or Monday. The NFL should never, ever play on Thursday - that is reserved for college.

College should never, ever play on Friday night - that is reserved for High School.

But the NFL is playing on Thursday and college is playing on Friday. And its sad and desperate.

* Thanksgiving/post-season excepted.
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How about nobody play on Sunday and everyone stay home with their families? :bricks:
 
18in32 said:
I watch the NFL now and then, but honestly I'd be fine with the NFL shutting down. There's a ton of great football played in CFB, and it would certainly help those student-athletes focus on their degrees.
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. I’m watching several NFL games go down to the wire. Yet college is a lot of blowouts because of the big talent mismatch in the majority of games. For the game itself, no question the NFL is a better product. If the nostalgia part of the collegiate game is fun for you, than good for you.

If you’re really in favor of student athletes, you’d want the ncaa to divide into the 15 or 20 schools that have a chance to win (with really only half of those in any season) and the rest would form a division where the athletes really are getting a meaningful degree.
 
GT98 said:
. I’m watching several NFL games go down to the wire. Yet college is a lot of blowouts because of the big talent mismatch in the majority of games. For the game itself, no question the NFL is a better product. If the nostalgia part of the collegiate game is fun for you, than good for you.

If you’re really in favor of student athletes, you’d want the ncaa to divide into the 15 or 20 schools that have a chance to win (with really only half of those in any season) and the rest would form a division where the athletes really are getting a meaningful degree.
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Actually I find NFL games to be really boring in general. I mainly enjoy seeing how college players I followed are playing. Like Taysom Hill today.
 
If we ever play a home game on a Friday night (excluding after Thanksgiving) the press in Ga will crucify us.
 
18in32 said:
Actually I find NFL games to be really boring in general. I mainly enjoy seeing how college players I followed are playing. Like Taysom Hill today.
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Interesting. I enjoy seeing close, competitive games where a handful of plays determines the outcome. College has lots of mismatches and blowouts. In college, there are only a handful of teams that have a chance to win a title.

Playoffs > Bowl games.

Maybe if college adopted a true playoff system I’d be a bigger fan (or watch game other than when GT plays).
 
GT98 said:
Interesting. I enjoy seeing close, competitive games where a handful of plays determines the outcome. College has lots of mismatches and blowouts. In college, there are only a handful of teams that have a chance to win a title.

Playoffs > Bowl games.

Maybe if college adopted a true playoff system I’d be a bigger fan (or watch game other than when GT plays).
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I like close, competitive games, too. But the NFL has gotten really boring due to a complex series of economic, strategic and rules changes. They discovered people like points, and concluding passing would get them there. That made QB's *even more* crucial to a team's success, and hence extremely expensive for owners. So they've been tightening the rules slowly but surely to make the game more pitch-and-catch (how they call holding, hitting 'vulnerable' WR's, roughing the passer, you name it). The result is, IMHO, pretty boring to watch.

The greater parity I grant you. But that's because there are only 32 NFL teams, there's free agency, salary caps, etc. But those are also all the things that make the players less invested in the game than in college. They're more entitled, less interested in the team, etc. I'd prefer to see college kids who are playing for a free education and love of the game.

But horses for courses.

EDIT: PS. If they'd just start calling holding on pass protection, in the NFL and CFB, I'd be a lot happier in general.
 
18in32 said:
They're more entitled, less interested in the team, etc. I'd prefer to see college kids who are playing for a free education and love of the game.

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As far as the rule changes, I agree that they need to rethink a couple of them—in particular the roughing the passer calls.

NFL players are not more entitled. It’s their job and livelihood.

The percentage of kids playing for a free education in the college game is in the single digits. Nearly all of them think they can make the league. It’s a feel good (false) narrative for the fans to think they play for the love of the game. When coaches makes millions and schools millions with a sport, the amateurism you seem to espouse is long gone.
 
18in32 said:
I like close, competitive games, too. But the NFL has gotten really boring due to a complex series of economic, strategic and rules changes. They discovered people like points, and concluding passing would get them there. That made QB's *even more* crucial to a team's success, and hence extremely expensive for owners. So they've been tightening the rules slowly but surely to make the game more pitch-and-catch (how they call holding, hitting 'vulnerable' WR's, roughing the passer, you name it). The result is, IMHO, pretty boring to watch.

The greater parity I grant you. But that's because there are only 32 NFL teams, there's free agency, salary caps, etc. But those are also all the things that make the players less invested in the game than in college. They're more entitled, less interested in the team, etc. I'd prefer to see college kids who are playing for a free education and love of the game.

But horses for courses.

EDIT: PS. If they'd just start calling holding on pass protection, in the NFL and CFB, I'd be a lot happier in general.
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If the kids are playing for a free education and the love of the game, don't you think all of the money generated ( and going to non playing adults) is distasteful?
 
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