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catamount man
January 28th, 2006, 06:18 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2006-01-28-nfl-network-games_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA

Bad idea, in my opinion! Saturdays in the fall are for college football! GO CATAMOUNTS!!!
TexasTerror
January 28th, 2006, 06:35 PM
Now, wait...

When are these Saturday games? Are these the games at the end of the season (December) when most college football is over? Or are these during the heart of the college football season? If it's the latter, that's a stupid move!

A third Thanksgiving game? Hmmm...interesting.
Pard4Life
January 28th, 2006, 06:41 PM
I think the article is alluding to games after Thanksgiving. College ball should not be affected. Now the real issue is...

STOP DETROIT PLAYING ON T-DAY! AWFUL TV!
TexasTerror
January 28th, 2006, 06:44 PM
I think the article is alluding to games after Thanksgiving. College ball should not be affected. Now the real issue is...STOP DETROIT PLAYING ON T-DAY! AWFUL TV!

You just get ups and downs. Remember the early to mid 90s when we got Aikman, Emmitt and Barry Sanders on Thanksgiving every year. We were lucky. Detroit is down, the Cowboys are eh, we'll see what happens...

I say put the Texans on Thanksgiving! ;)
Third and Long
January 28th, 2006, 07:32 PM
The article doesn't really explain mucht to me. The only date I got out of it was a third game on Turkeyday.
TexasTerror
January 29th, 2006, 07:20 AM
"The New York Times reported that the first NFL Network game would be Redskins-Cowboys on Thanksgiving night. Network spokesman Seth Palansky, however, said, "The 2006 schedule will be put together in the coming months and no games, including NFL Network's inaugural game on Thanksgiving evening, have been determined." (Houston Chronicle)

Skins-Cowboys is a very attractive first game. Nice rivalry game, that's for sure...
swaghook
January 29th, 2006, 04:19 PM
They need to move the Superbowl to a saturday so everyone can recover from the game the next day.
blur2005
January 29th, 2006, 09:03 PM
"The eight-game package, announced by commissioner Paul Tagliabue on Saturday, will begin with a game on Thanksgiving night."

You can tell that the deal means the late season, when there are already Saturday games, because the deal starts at Thanksgiving. This is not a big deal, except I don't have NFL Network. That's my only problem with it.
blukeys
January 29th, 2006, 09:09 PM
They need to move the Superbowl to a saturday so everyone can recover from the game the next day.


Or move one holiday to the day after the Super Bowl. Early on I thought the MLK holiday would work. Since the Super Bows keeps moving later, President's Day may work. If all else fails we just need to make the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday!!!!! ;) ;) ;)