NFL Prime Time Rules · PACKERSHOME

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

3 years ago

What are the Prime Time rules for an NFL team? I once thought a team could only appear in five prime time games, this meaning Thursday, Sunday Night or Monday Night games. What if a team has five already, does that negate them from being flexed into an additional prime time game?

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beast
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3 years ago

I've heard that, but I've never been able to determine if that was just rumor, word of mouth or factual.

I remember one year that Patriots were getting prime time games every single week and it was pissing Brady off and I was enjoying that it was pissing him off lol, I guess it messes with his sleep schedule, especially away trip prime time games.

My wild @$$ speculation, is that try to mix it up, but if there aren't good other options, and the tv people are really pushing them to do it, the NFL will do what the tv people want...

So I think the rules could apply to the NFL initial scheduling, and maybe not changes in said schemes. By that's my pure speculation, like I've said, I've heard of those rules, but I'm not sure I've ever heard that they're officially written down in some official rule book...

Which really doesn't matter because they NFL isn't following the rule book tightly anymore anyways... (PS, I've been saying that for weeks, I'm not bringing up anything with the WFT game with that comment... but that the refs seem to be trying to consistently follow what I assume the NFL telling them to follow, not nessarily the NFL rule book.

Mucky Tundra
Honored Member

3 years ago

Packers place WR Malik Taylor on reserve/COVID-19 list on October 15th

Hope this isn't a coming trend. Vaccinated players get tested once a week.

From what I know, vaccine limits transmission and severity, it doesn't eliminate it purely.

Players don't like it. Coaches don't like it. Fans want everyone to get paid big money. Well, you need the TV cash for that. You can't have it both ways.

I tend not to watch Thursday games cuz I hate greed. Oh, and I'm old and need sleep.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

How much more money does playing on Thursday night rake in then compared to noon/3 pm game? Is it really that much?

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beast
Select Member

3 years ago

How much more money does playing on Thursday night rake in then compared to noon/3 pm game? Is it really that much?

Zero2OldandSleepy 😴

Originally Posted by: Mucky Tundra

I don't know the dollar value, but any new time slot makes a pretty good amount...

So another Sunday noon game might not make that much more, as there is already a game there...

A Thursday game is a new time slot and more to sell, so it makes a good bit..

Though if you're asking about the difference amount amount between 3 PM Thursday, and Night game Thursday, I think that makes a good point.

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

3 years ago

How much more money does playing on Thursday night rake in then compared to noon/3 pm game? Is it really that much?

Zero2OldandSleepy 😴

Originally Posted by: Mucky Tundra

You damn right! Although I woke up this morning with a bunch of damn energy. I think the caffeine is finally out of my system.

Anyhooters, Thursday is maximum viewership just like Sunday Night and Monday Night. That's why it's called Prime Time (Duh, right? lol). The deal as I read it was $1 billion per year for 15 Thursday night games. That's about $31.25 million per team and about $2.1 million per team per game. However, I think the NFL and NFLPA split the money 55:45 so it's closer to a million per team.

I'm spitballing here but you get the idea. The NFL Owners wanted Thursday Night games, not the players. The players wanted more money and this is what I'm speculating the Owners offered up as means to getting more money. So, the Owners don't give a larger portion of the pie, they just created a larger pie.

wpr
Preferred Member

3 years ago

I'm spitballing here but you get the idea. The NFL Owners wanted Thursday Night games, not the players. The players wanted more money and this is what I'm speculating the Owners offered up as means to getting more money. So, the Owners don't give a larger portion of the pie, they just created a larger pie.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

I'd prefer it to be Friday or Saturday night games. It gives the players more time to recover from the prior week and the owners still get their larger pot of gold.
I know high school gets Friday nights and college Saturday. But this is gold dammit. I don't care. Let's get ours and to hell with everyone else.

KRK
Veteran Member

3 years ago

Wpr waxed

Originally Posted by: wpr

They do not want to go there… Believe me!!! In the deep South and in many states, college football will out-draw them, their ratings will go down and their revenue will go down. Then, heaven forbid, college football says “go pound sand” and come into Sunday. That’s what they will get if they go into Saturday, a dilution of revenue for both parties

In Luce tua Videmus Lucem KRK

yooperfan
Veteran Member

3 years ago

We know that it’s all about revenue!
What I have never been able to understand,is why they have never moved the Super Bowl to Saturday night.
That would seem like even more of a money machine.

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

3 years ago

And you can find comments like this from players all season long!

These Thursday games be the hex I’m an old man now it takes me at least 3 days just to recover from Sunday games 🤣

wpr
Preferred Member

3 years ago

#10

Wpr waxed They do not want to go there… Believe me!!! In the deep South and in many states, college football will out-draw them, their ratings will go down and their revenue will go down. Then, heaven forbid, college football says “go pound sand” and come into Sunday. That’s what they will get if they go into Saturday, a dilution of revenue for both parties

Originally Posted by: KRK

Yes I know about the popularity of the game in the deep South.

A couple of points-
Most of their games are Saturday afternoon. Thus a Saturday evening game would not be much of a conflict. Many of the evening games are Left Coast games. While college is popular out there it's not the same religion as the South.
Secondly the population base of the South is small compared to the nation as a whole. NFL Inc could do some test trials and leave teams from the South out of the Saturday night mix. Someone in Alabama or Georgia isn't going to watch a game between KC and Denver anyway. Thursday, Saturday or Sunday.

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