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A few years ago, I wrote correctly about how the NFL should do the right thing and hold the Super Bowl on Saturday night instead of the annual Sunday timeslot.
Every time I share that opinion I end up getting a bunch of people yelling at me that I’m stupid (which may not be wrong) and that the Sunday game makes sense because of tradition and because as some have told me no one watches TV on Saturday (which is just a silly argument against holding the Super Bowl on Saturday night because everyone would watch the Super Bowl if it was on Saturday night).
A lot of those people are screaming that Sunday is THE day for the NFL and that should never change. “DO NOT DARE THIS TRADITION OUT OF OUR HANDS!” they yelled at me.
But you know what? Sunday is no longer the only day for the NFL. Over the years we have seen normally scheduled regular season games on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. This year we have seen shifted matches on Tuesday and even one on Wednesday afternoon.
And now we’re going one Christmas day game on a Friday afternoon because tradition means nothing to the NFL. The only things that matter to the NFL are ratings and money and they’re going to crush it again today when the Saints host the Vikings at 4:30 p.m. ET.
So you all can just stop yelling about tradition and all that, because the NFL doesn’t care about that what you know.
There’s really no reason for the NFL to have a game scheduled for today, other than for ratings and eye-stealing from the NBA, which normally has had Christmas Day to itself.
I suspect players for the Saints and Vikings would rather have a Christmas at home with their families rather than having to play a game with a short rest in week 16 of a grueling NFL season.
There is also a very deadly global pandemic still underway and I would think the league would like to make things less difficult for its players both physically and mentally, but I think the NFL is all about its players.
The NFL will always only care about money and today the league will laugh loudly as two teams compete on a day when they should be home and reminisce that will be far more important than anything they will do on a football field. .
Good stuff, NFL.
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