NFL Opener Moved to Weds Sept 5

Thank God! I thought I was going to have to miss it!

Sooner or later there will be football 7 days a week. Goodell likes change.

The NFL doesn't like to lose any of its potential viewership.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/...eld-wednesday-sept-5

Tell him to move his speech. The NFL is far more important.

This ^^^

1 2 3 WHITEHOUSE!!!!

.com?

The Jaguars say "1-2-3 Waffle House!"

Always, always, get the ham with it.

If it's fresh.

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Originally posted by GBFanForLife:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/...eld-wednesday-sept-5

Tell him to move his speech. The NFL is far more important.

Totally agree! We just have to keep sacraficing for him!

Diggr is that you?

The President's speech is a draw and the NFL 's job is to deliver the greatest audience possible to its advertisers. It's a good business move.

It's also the President of the United States vs. a football game. Wingnut rubes need to figure that out. It's an honor for teh Super Bowl Champions to visit teh White House, the President doesn't visit every team's training camp. It's such a sacrifice to watch a game on Wednesday rather than Thursday. Heck, more people go "out" on Thursdays also, making Wednesday likely a "better" night anyway.

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It's also the President of the United States vs. a football game. Wingnut rubes need to figure that out.

Why should we put politicians on a pedestal?

Just curious if you take everything this seriously?

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Originally posted by Fedya:

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It's also the President of the United States vs. a football game. Wingnut rubes need to figure that out.

Why should we put politicians on a pedestal?

Why put athletes on a pedestal? It's really ridiculous to get worked up over a sound business decision that is also a good idea. Heck, having the game on Wednesday Night is even better for me. Thursday Night games suck.

When you say "you", Boris, do you mean the singular you (as in just me) or you plural (as in everybody who's posted to the thread)?

I'll admit that I'm a whack-job, so you're welcome to take my philosophical views on politics with a grain of salt.

But there's also this ethos that once somebody wins elective office, we're supposed to treat them as experts and vastly superior to the rest of us. Then again, I live in a state where our senior senator's raison d'être seems to be to get himself in front of a camera to fear-monger against the latest trend. Just recently it was inhalable caffeine (never mind that nobody seems to want to ban caffeine in pill form or in liquid form, thank God!); the year before that it was when the wrong people were mixing caffeine and alcohol. (Nobody would seriously suggest banning Irish coffee.)

And yet we're supposed to defer to these people as our betters? They're perverts who get their jollies on nannying other people the way other folks get their jollies photographing their genitalia and sending the photos to other people.

I'm sure it's a good business decision not to go up against a national political convention, and it's not as if the convention can change its schedule very easily; I just get irritated with the "OMG! You don't respect a politician enough!" argument used to criticize people who aren't necessarily thrilled with this decision. I wouldn't care so much about the game being moved if it weren't for a fact that the Packers are likely going to be playing in the Meadowlands that night.

"You" meaning Herschel.

I just get tired of the ignorant conspiracy theories that political candidate "A" 'is trying to ruin my way of life' garbage. The speech was the same time last year too. There are real issues, sure, but the timing of a convention or speech isn't one of them. Football is great, but it's hardly the most important thing ever and the players are not my role models/heroes. None of them should be on a pedestal. They're just people.

I freely admit, Thursday Night games suck for me, and many others. In my case it's the one night a group of friends and I can get together (and three of them are not sports fans at all) without conflict of spouses/kid activities. While anecdotal, I know many people that Thursday is also a night out or "date night" and Wednesday works better also.

So yeah, it's a sound business decision AND works better for me and others regardless of who is in office.

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Originally posted by Herschel:
It's also the President of the United States vs. a football game. Wingnut rubes need to figure that out.

This isn't the President of the United States giving a speech on a national emergency, this is a candidate giving a campaign speech to elect him. Big difference.

Granted, but the point is it's a big chunk of viewers that would miss a nice-sized chunk of advertisements paid for by advertisers to a network trying to recoup their billion-dollar investment in the league. There's also then the opposing rebuttals on other media outlets and all during the election cycle. It matters not what the speech is for, just that it would siphon viewers.

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Originally posted by Herschel:
just that it would siphon viewers.

Link?

Link to what? That in the home stretch of a highly-contested election cycle a presidential speech and related content wouldn't get a lot of viewers? In 2008 they moved the start time up an hour. Don't be an idot. There's no conspiracy, there's no cahoots, the NFL is making a sound business decision. Why else would they do it?

No conspiracy

Wednesday or Thursday NFL game? Does it really matter that much? NO

This may have been covered in the Saints thread, but can't see the league showcasing the Saints opening night. Especially if any suspensions are in place.

@TomSilverstein: The Packers will not be playing the kickoff opener for the second year in a row. It will be Dallas at the New York Giants on Wed, Sept. 5.

Jerrah will be happy.

I am extremely relieved that we don't have to play on opening night. Especially against the Giants.

The League was askeered the Packers would kick the Giants' asses, so they bring in a Palooka instead

Plus they have to do something to placate Jerruh before his face lift ruptures

Crummy news. Wouldn't mind a shot at getting a little revenge on the Giants to start the season. And I wouldn't mind the mini-bye going into week 2.

Glad it's not Green Bay.

I think they'll save the game for early december now like last year, hopefully a 4pm game again

Good news - Jerry having to watch a hated rival raise a championship banner

Bad news - It's not GB.

Worse news - Romo in primetime. Haven't we seen this enough?

Pack at SEA for the 2nd half of the MNF double header?

Hope not. Give me Sunday noon games every week.

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Originally posted by IL_Pack_Fan:
Pack at SEA for the 2nd half of the MNF double header?

Never.

Always two West Coast teams.

Well I'll be. Never realized it was two WC teams. And I learned something today.

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Originally posted by 4 Favre:
Crummy news. Wouldn't mind a shot at getting a little revenge on the Giants to start the season. And I wouldn't mind the mini-bye going into week 2.

Being that the home team has yet to lose this game since a Thursday night opener was created, I'd rather the Packers avoid it.

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Originally posted by IL_Pack_Fan:
Well I'll be. Never realized it was two WC teams. And I learned something today.

Denver (2x) and KC have played in the game three of the last four years. More like AFC West teams than WC teams. But to some Florida folk, anything west of the St. Johns river is the WC.

Once the big quake hits-------KC will be the West Coast.

Or Clintonville.

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Originally posted by Point Brewmaster:

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Originally posted by Herschel:
It's also the President of the United States vs. a football game. Wingnut rubes need to figure that out.

This isn't the President of the United States giving a speech on a national emergency, this is a candidate giving a campaign speech to elect him. Big difference.

This deserves to be repeated.

I think one term is plenty.