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1 minute ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

Regardless, this site here says FOX will broadcast 11 games (weeks 4 through 15).  It says CBS and NBC broadcast five games each last year.

 

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/313799/fox-wins-thursday-night-football-from-cbs-nbc.html

Posted
1 minute ago, Doc Brown said:

Regardless, this site here says FOX will broadcast 11 games (weeks 4 through 15).  It says CBS and NBC broadcast five games each last year.

 

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/313799/fox-wins-thursday-night-football-from-cbs-nbc.html

 

The point is that only three weeks were games "exclusively" on NFLN with no TNF in week 17.   3 weeks out of 16. 

Posted
2 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

 

The point is that only three weeks were games "exclusively" on NFLN with no TNF in week 17.   3 weeks out of 16. 

Got ya.  So, we'll actually be losing some games with this deal when it comes to being on network television.

 

Posted
2 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

Regardless, this site here says FOX will broadcast 11 games (weeks 4 through 15).  It says CBS and NBC broadcast five games each last year.

 

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/313799/fox-wins-thursday-night-football-from-cbs-nbc.html

Yep. It's a little confusing for a couple reasons. There are 17 TV weeks in a regular season. It looks like the first three weeks will only be on NFLN. Week 16 and 17 the NFL uses Saturdays because college is done by then. NBC (which had TNF and SNF last year, got a couple of those games, so they may lose one. It will be something stupid like Fox Thursday Night Football on Saturday Late Afternoon.) Plus, on Thanksgiving, a thursday obviously, Fox always has a game, Detroit or Dallas, but that would not be considered TNF. So it looks like they will have 10 actual TNF games and maybe an extra Saturday.

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3 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said:

Yep. It's a little confusing for a couple reasons. There are 17 TV weeks in a regular season. It looks like the first three weeks will only be on NFLN. Week 16 and 17 the NFL uses Saturdays because college is done by then. NBC (which had TNF and SNF last year, got a couple of those games, so they may lose one. It will be something stupid like Fox Thursday Night Football on Saturday Late Afternoon.) Plus, on Thanksgiving, a thursday obviously, Fox always has a game, Detroit or Dallas, but that would not be considered TNF. So it looks like they will have 10 actual TNF games and maybe an extra Saturday.

Thanks for the clarification.  I wonder if FOX will get a double header on Thanksgiving?

Posted
4 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

Thanks for the clarification.  I wonder if FOX will get a double header on Thanksgiving?

Good thinking. That could be the 11th game. That would allow them to still say TNF.

 

IIRC, NBC had the Thanksgiving Night game, and the year before it may have been NFLNetwork.

Posted
8 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

Yes, the one game on Thursday has a lot less injuries than the games combined on Sundays.  That's NFL logic 101....

 

 

Wow, it's like you didn't even read what I posted.

 

Anyway, google it yourself.  This has already been looked at and is as I posted.

Posted
31 minutes ago, meistersinger said:

It is simply unforgiveable that any network would bid on the national disgrace that is Thursday night football.  Please, MAKE IT STOP!!

 

It will effectively be stopped for you if you don't watch. 

Posted
6 hours ago, meistersinger said:

It is simply unforgiveable that any network would bid on the national disgrace that is Thursday night football.  Please, MAKE IT STOP!!

unforgivable? The NFL is big business to these networks.

Posted
On January 31, 2018 at 10:34 PM, meistersinger said:

It is simply unforgiveable that any network would bid on the national disgrace that is Thursday night football.  Please, MAKE IT STOP!!

 

 

Because it's absolute ratings gold.

 

Did you really not know the answer to your question?

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Posted
1 hour ago, 26CornerBlitz said:
FOX might give double duty to Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, keeping them as the No. 1 Sunday team and putting them on Thursday Night Football as well 

 

Makes sense if both are willing to go along with higher dollar contracts with one of them getting a guest substitute if needed.

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