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"Monday Night" Football on Saturday night?

The Atlanta win over Detroit was tonight, largely because the NFL didn't want to have a game on Christmas Eve. In week 17, every game will be exclusively on Sunday only.
 
Joe_Capitano said:
NBC is unscheduled - for now. They want Redskins-Cowboys for primetime according to NFL.com. One guess how FOX feels about that.
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The same way they felt when Giants-Cowboys ended the season last year. Ironically, Jerry Jones (the infamous Cowboys owner) doesn't want this game to be flexed, but there might not be a better option.

On a related note, NFL Network in recent years called their Saturday night games the Saturday edition of Thursday Night Football, but nobody cares about the history of Thursday games as much.
 
I remember one year when Christmas fell on Sunday a lot
of NFL players were unhappy about having to play when they'd
rather be home with their families. I don't know if the NFL ever
did anything about it (don't think so), but with the Falcons-Lions
game on a Saturday, yes, that means that all NFL players can
be home for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
 
bpatrick said:
I remember one year when Christmas fell on Sunday a lot of NFL players were unhappy about having to play when they'd rather be home with their families.
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That was last year.
 
I can understand why Monday Night Football was on Saturday but why was there no Thursday Night game last Thursday or this coming one?
 
I believe the NFL Network was only contracted to carry X number of games this season. That didn't include Week1 (NBC), Thanksgiving (NBC) or the final week. All games for Week 17 are on Sunday at 1 PM and 4:25 PM ET. NBC will have the season finale this Sunday night.
 
Brian Donegan said:
I can understand why Monday Night Football was on Saturday but why was there no Thursday Night game last Thursday or this coming one?
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They didn't want to allow any of the playoff teams to have an extra few days rest before the playoffs start. But if they scheduled, say, the Chargers/Raiders game or another game between doormats, there wouldn't be any interest. So it was the right decision to not bother with a Thursday game at the end of the year.
 
Going away from Football but sticking with sports and Christmas, in the late 80's-early 90's I remember a few Detroit Pistons players chartered a plane so they could be with their families on Christmas morning and flew to Chicago that afternoon to play the Bulls.

Now it's a tradition to have NBA on Christmas.
 
brian4 said:
Going away from Football but sticking with sports and Christmas, in the late 80's-early 90's I remember a few Detroit Pistons players chartered a plane so they could be with their families on Christmas morning and flew to Chicago that afternoon to play the Bulls.

Now it's a tradition to have NBA on Christmas.
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The Pistons were one of the first teams in sports, and the first in the NBA, to have their own chartered plane. It had to be around the same time that their arena, the Palace of Auburn Hills, opened for business.
 
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