NFL 2026-2027 Season

[meStevo]

Does it really matter as long as the games aren't on a conventional workday or interfere with college games?

Per the article, it doesn't matter.

But the NFL is now big enough to overcome traditions. The NFL is big enough to make new traditions. And the evolving tradition is this — during football season, any day is Sunday. Every day is Sunday. The audience will be there, whenever and wherever NFL games are played.​

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As Jerry Jones said in March, "When the duck quack, feed 'em." The ducks currently prefer getting their meals more often than to having an all-you-can-eat brunch on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. ET.​

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With no real competition from network TV on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night, why not keep the ducks fat and happy from Labor Day through Week 18?​

 

[AZ.]

Per the article, it doesn't matter.

But the NFL is now big enough to overcome traditions. The NFL is big enough to make new traditions. And the evolving tradition is this — during football season, any day is Sunday. Every day is Sunday. The audience will be there, whenever and wherever NFL games are played.

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As Jerry Jones said in March, "When the duck quack, feed 'em." The ducks currently prefer getting their meals more often than to having an all-you-can-eat brunch on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. ET.

With no real competition from network TV on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night, why not keep the ducks fat and happy from Labor Day through Week 18?​

But is funny/sad, that all the new rules are to try and help protect players from injuries. Save the owners big bucks they pay out. Yet not getting a player enough time to recover from such blunt force kinda erases everything all the new rules are trying to prevent?

 

[meStevo]

If the data backs that up, I agree. On this specific claim, it doesn't. The rules are working and demonstrably so, while injury narratives around scheduling for the most part are simply narratives.

Concussions Decrease to Historic Low in 2024 NFL Season | NFL Football Operations

Thursday Night Football's impact on all-cause injuries in NFL players during 2012 - 2017 - PubMed

Season length is the biggest contributor to a change in the wrong direction for injuries. When they go to 18 games (not expected before 2028 at this point I think) I hope another bye is added. My ADHD brain also likes the chaos of players being limited to only being able to play 16 games or something in an 18 game season but that wouldn't work for a variety of reasons.

The brutal irony is successful teams are playing for the right to keep playing more games, and successful teams are playing as many as 21 games a year. The Chiefs in the Mahomes era have played 19 playoff games - an entire additional season of games and then some.

 

[Jimbo]

Does it really matter as long as the games aren't on a conventional workday or interfere with college games?

Well, most Non Sunday game would be on a Conventional Work day or be at the same time as College.
Coillege had Thursday first, they always have Saturday ... NFL has taken over those days ...
Theres NO Reason to have games the day Before Thanksgiving ... Have they tried to steal the Day After Thanksgiving yet (Maybe they have already done that, they are on almost every day now).

It was understandable to do those things during Covid, that was Nessasary, now they are NOT.

 

[meStevo]

Well, most Non Sunday game would be on a Conventional Work day or be at the same time as College.
Coillege had Thursday first, they always have Saturday ... NFL has taken over those days ...
Theres NO Reason to have games the day Before Thanksgiving ... Have they tried to steal the Day After Thanksgiving yet (Maybe they have already done that, they are on almost every day now).

It was understandable to do those thgings during Covid, that was Nessasary, now they are NOT.

They only play on Saturdays after the college football regular season ends - that's been the consistent practice for decades and is actually backed by federal law.

17th game was added before COVID, the expanded schedule has nothing to do with it so not sure why you are tying it to that.

We're 20 years into Thursday Night Football, keep going and you're going to start complaining about the forward pass.

As long as people tune in nothing is going to change - which is exactly why the MNF doubleheader was just killed. Fans didn't like it, NFL pulled it. If the expanded schedule drew the same reaction it would be gone too. People like to complain, but they keep watching, so the NFL keeps serving it up.

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[b4pjoe]

Have they tried to steal the Day After Thanksgiving yet (Maybe they have already done that, they are on almost every day now).

Yes they already have a Black Friday game. This is the upcoming one for this year.

 

[meStevo]

Yeah, this is year 4 for the Black Friday game...

 

[Jimbo]

It use to be that they would have a game on Christmas or Eve, IF it happened to fall on a Sunday ... now they want every day ...
There WILL come a Time when people STOP watching ... thats part of why people don't watch Baseball as much, it's on EVERY day.

Its on so often, missing a game or two doesn't matter.

With they NFL, they will get there ... if they are not careful

 

[meStevo]

NFL ratings have gone up as the schedule expanded, not down. ESPN and the league just killed the MNF doubleheader - they're clearly paying attention.

Baseball's decline has more to do with pace of play, blackout rules, and a generation that never connected with the sport than with a 162-game schedule. It's not a clean comparison.

 

[harshness]

Well, most Non Sunday game would be on a Conventional Work day or be at the same time as College.

The ones that I'm seeing are around major holidays for the most part.

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[Jimbo]

The ones that I'm seeing are around major holidays for the most part.

Yes, but they are still part of the work week.

 

[harshness]

Yes, but they are still part of the work week.

Only the Wednesday game (and only for those who don't take Wednesday off).

 

[Jimbo]

Only the Wednesday game (and only for those who don't take Wednesday off).

Who takes Wednesdays off ... ?
In my business you worked all those days, before and after a Holiday.
Most of the time we were requested to Work the holiday ... Not required, but offered.
However, they had to have enough coverage for the holiday that Many Many times people were forced to work it.

 

[harshness]

Who takes Wednesdays off ... ?

When I was working, I typically got at least Wednesday afternoon off before Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Do you not take days off to extend holidays?

 

[Jimbo]

When I was working, I typically got at least Wednesday afternoon off before Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Do you not take days off to extend holidays?

Generally we were pushed into working most holidays, unless we had a Vacation week already scheduled.

We had to pick our Vacation in November for the Next Year ... we didn't have the flexability that a lot of places had.

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[meStevo]

The desperation to find something to complain about is really something.

 

[Jimbo]

The desperation to find something to complain about is really something.

Just stating the Truth ....
Many people have jobs that they can't just schedule a day off like that.

 

[meStevo]

Just stating the Truth ....
Many people have jobs that they can't just schedule a day off like that.

You are complaining about things like the prospect of a Black Friday game when you seemed to have no idea it was about to be played for a 4th year - you're demonstrably inventing grievances in real time as you can come up with them (see this latest 'work days' tangent), and presenting them as fact, calling it 'the truth' for 'many people' etc.

No, 'most people' aren't working during prime time the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. If the slot doesn't work, then it'll be one and done and the schedule will continue to evolve as viewership and interest justifies it. The complaints keep shifting but the conclusion stays the same.

 

[Jimbo]

You are complaining about things like the prospect of a Black Friday game when you seemed to have no idea it was about to be played for a 4th year - you're demonstrably inventing grievances in real time as you can come up with them (see this latest 'work days' tangent), and presenting them as fact, calling it 'the truth' for 'many people' etc.

No, 'most people' aren't working during prime time the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. If the slot doesn't work, then it'll be one and done and the schedule will continue to evolve as viewership and interest justifies it. The complaints keep shifting but the conclusion stays the same.

So, your telling me that I am lying ?

You have NO, Idea what MY work was like and I am sure that I am not the only person in the world that had a job like mine.
When you work 8+ hours a day and then Overtime ... then when the Electric goes out across town or the major storm goes thru town.... you may sit in your house, I want out into the weather and WORKED to get people back in service ... Summer storms or Winter Storms.

So, YOU cannot tell me what I KNOW.

Just because you want to be a know it all ...
You've done this type of thing to me for Years now ... it's called Trolling.

It's sad when people sit behind a Computer screen and troll people, unfrtunately it happens way to often.

 

[meStevo]

So, your telling me that I am lying ?

You have NO, Idea what MY work was like and I am sure that I am not the only person in the world that had a job like mine.
When you work 8+ hours a day and then Overtime ... then when the Electric goes out across town or the major storm goes thru town.... you may sit in your house, I want out into the weather and WORKED to get people back in service ... Summer storms or Winter Storms.

So, YOU cannot tell me what I KNOW.

Just because you want to be a know it all ...
You've done this type of thing to me for Years now ... it's called Trolling.

It's sad when people sit behind a Computer screen and troll people, unfrtunately it happens way to often.

You're inventing things I've said now, just like the grievances you have with the NFL schedule.

If you stick to facts then you can simply refer back to them, if you make stuff up you have to pivot to name-calling and address literally nothing else in the post you are replying to. Perhaps it's time to reflect on which of those two things you're doing.

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