One of the many proposals NFL owners will vote on this week is the idea of flexing Thursday Night Football games.
After a year filled with snoozefests on the late-week telecast, the league apparently wants more competitive late-season games. Never mind the health of players on short notice or the shuffling of paying fans’ schedules.
As For The Win’s Charles Curtis wrote in reaction, flexing TNF is an awful idea:
“That number [of games flexed] should be zero, but to increase it beyond one? And late in the season? For a team contending? Are you kidding me?”
Perhaps the biggest pro football reporter around, NBC Sports’ Peter King, is joining the fray. In his latest “Football Morning in America” column, King blasts the idea of flexing TNF games. He lays out why the league wants to do it, but King still seems to think it’s a silly prospect, not least of which for the fans, let alone the players.
More from King and NBC Sports:
“The league really wants the Thursday flex. I’m dubious it’ll pass. We can all agree this seems insane. Moving a game from 1 p.m. Sunday to 8:20 p.m. Sunday is inconvenient, to say the least, for the fans in attendance. Moving it three days earlier, as is on the agenda for a vote here, is a punch in the face to the fans who’ve planned trips to see games and either won’t be able to see a game played three days earlier or will have lives turned upside down in order to do so.”
Phew. Talk about taking a blow torch to an awful idea. Here’s hoping King is right and common sense eventually does win out with this proposal.
