Commish Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 So the NFL routinely delays games for lightening. With the forecast - for the moment - holding pretty steady showing thunderstorms moving through Arrowhead around 11pm, why not move the game forward an hour, and ensure the game is finished without a delay? Make too much sense? 2 Quote
Giuseppe Tognarelli Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 Makes a ton of sense but probably too many logistical hurdles. Quote
Chandler#81 Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 No. It’s still 5:20pm, West Coast drive time. It’s all about the viewing audience. 1 Quote
716er Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 Looking at Wunderground right this moment I see rain in the forecast but no lightning. Quote
SoCal Deek Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/9/2021 at 11:51 AM, Chandler#81 said: No. It’s still 5:20pm, West Coast drive time. It’s all about the viewing audience. Expand It Sunday night not Monday night. We don’t have ‘drive time’ on Sunday night out here. 😉 1 2 2 Quote
1ManRaid Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 I take it you've never done employee scheduling. It's far harder to bump a game up last minute than it is to push it back. There are at minimum hundreds of job shifts that would have to be rescheduled just to accommodate one hour ahead. It's not like a delay where you just pay them another hour because they are already there. On top of the logistical nightmare that would be (keep in mind it is the weekend and people will be hard to get ahold of), there could also be legal issues with last minute rescheduling of shifts. I don't know about KC but here in Ontario you can't just tell people oh BTW your shift tomorrow is changed. 3 1 Quote
Ya Digg? Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 The NFL would never move the game forward for a very simple reason….TV. NBC would never go for that and the NFL wouldn’t move a game up that starts in prime time 1 Quote
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/9/2021 at 10:55 AM, Commish said: So the NFL routinely delays games for lightening. With the forecast - for the moment - holding pretty steady showing thunderstorms moving through Arrowhead around 11pm, why not move the game forward an hour, and ensure the game is finished without a delay? Make too much sense? Expand what stinks is the weather is perfect all day, and then starts to turn just as the game starts. Quote
MiltonWaddams Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/9/2021 at 1:17 PM, Miyagi-Do Karate said: what stinks is the weather is perfect all day, and then starts to turn just as the game starts. Expand Weather forecasting is scientific, but far from an exact science. It was supposed to pour rain all night in my city. Instead it just started this morning. It might be fine, it might not…. Don’t worry. Josh played pretty darn well in the rain after the int last week. 1 Quote
WotAGuy Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 It would be easier to change the weather. 3 5 Quote
Marv's Neighbor Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 Lived in Seattle 86-2003. For most of that time KIRO TV would delay Monday Night Football for 1 hour. So TV had a 7PM game, while radio was on at 6PM. KIRO had decided that they wanted to give people a chance to get home from work. Eventually the NFL found out about it, and the 1hr delay ended. Quote
machine gun kelly Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 I assume the question is facetious as the NFL would never ever make that call. Worried about being up too late? I know, I am too, but I’m not missing this game. Quote
Cotton Fitzsimmons Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/9/2021 at 10:55 AM, Commish said: So the NFL routinely delays games for lightening. With the forecast - for the moment - holding pretty steady showing thunderstorms moving through Arrowhead around 11pm, why not move the game forward an hour, and ensure the game is finished without a delay? Make too much sense? Expand What’s good, gents? What’s good? Commish, my good fellow… you make an excellent point, per usual! Let’s go to the powers that be and get clarification… @Roger Goodell are we moving this game up or what? 1 Quote
TailgateChef Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/9/2021 at 1:17 PM, Miyagi-Do Karate said: what stinks is the weather is perfect all day, and then starts to turn just as the game starts. Expand I bet the rain starts later than forecast. That always seems to be the case. 1 Quote
1ManRaid Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/9/2021 at 1:12 PM, Ya Digg? said: The NFL would never move the game forward for a very simple reason….TV. NBC would never go for that and the NFL wouldn’t move a game up that starts in prime time Expand Ya that's the other obvious consideration, but I was rushing to get into a bath and didn't bother addressing it heh. On 10/9/2021 at 1:26 PM, MiltonWaddams said: Weather forecasting is scientific, but far from an exact science. It was supposed to pour rain all night in my city. Instead it just started this morning. It might be fine, it might not…. Don’t worry. Josh played pretty darn well in the rain after the int last week. Expand Back when I went to regular nerd conventions, I had to constantly remind people on the forums about the unreliability of weather reports. People would pull up the 14 day forecast, and then make their plans for things based on the weather that far in advance. On 10/9/2021 at 1:31 PM, Marv's Neighbor said: Lived in Seattle 86-2003. For most of that time KIRO TV would delay Monday Night Football for 1 hour. So TV had a 7PM game, while radio was on at 6PM. KIRO had decided that they wanted to give people a chance to get home from work. Eventually the NFL found out about it, and the 1hr delay ended. Expand My dad knew people who actually made a quite a good living for a while in the days before widespread internet betting on European soccer, because of broadcast delays. I have no idea who signed off on such a stupid system, but betting time cutoffs were based on when the tape delayed games would broadcast on our side of the pond, rather than the actual time the games were played. Yes, that means you could bet on the games until AFTER the games were over. They would simply call up friends in Europe, get them to check the locally reported final scores of the recently completed games, and rush to the store to buy bets before the games "started" on TV here. They did have to spread their bets around the region to avoid being cut off, but this went on for MONTHS before the powers that be realized how much money they were losing. 1 Quote
Commish Posted October 9, 2021 Author Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/9/2021 at 1:56 PM, machine gun kelly said: I assume the question is facetious as the NFL would never ever make that call. Worried about being up too late? I know, I am too, but I’m not missing this game. Expand Not a facetious question. I appreciate that the biggest part of the equation is TV revenue, but ... if the forecast is accurate, and they have a hour-long delay in the game, how many viewers/$$ are they going to lose as a result? Quote
Ed_Formerly_of_Roch Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 The other issue is whichever network has the 4:25 game this week it's Fox would have a cow as wouldn't want Sunday Night Football going up against their game and also Fox wouldn't want to lose viewers for the beginning of their game as still watching the end of game on Fox, even if it is Giants V Dallas Quote
Mr. WEO Posted October 9, 2021 Posted October 9, 2021 How about just play it today? What's it like out? 1 Quote
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