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A few years ago I wrote correctly about how the NFL should do the right thing and hold the Super Bowl on Saturday night instead of the annual Sunday time slot.
Every time I share this opinion, I get to have a lot of people shouting at me that I’m stupid (which might not be wrong) and that Sunday’s game makes sense because of tradition and because, as they told me. said some, no one watches TV on Saturday (which is just a stupid argument against organizing the Super Bowl on Saturday night, because everyone would watch the Super Bowl if it were Saturday night).
Many of those people are screaming about how Sunday is NFL Day, and that should never change. “DON’T DARE TO RIP THIS TRADITION FROM OUR HANDS!” they shouted at me.
But you know what? Sunday is not the only day for the NFL. Over the years I have normally seen matches scheduled in the regular season on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. This year we saw games rescheduled for Tuesday and even one on Wednesday afternoon.
And now we’ll see one Christmas day I play on a Friday afternoon because tradition means nothing to the NFL. The only things that matter to the NFL are the ratings and the money and they will crush again today, when the Saints host the Vikings at 4:30 p.m.
So everyone can never stop shouting about tradition and all that, because the NFL doesn’t give you information about it.
There’s no reason the NFL should have a game scheduled for today, except for ratings and thefts from the NBA, which normally had Christmas Day.
I guess players for the Saints and Vikings would rather have a Christmas at home with their families, instead of playing a short rest game in Week 16 of a grueling NFL season.
There is also another very deadly global pandemic and I would think the league would like to make things less difficult both physically and mentally for its players, but there I think the NFL doesn’t care about its players at all.
The NFL will always care only about money and today the league will laugh out loud as two teams come out and fight on a day when they should be home making memories that will matter far more than anything they do on a football field.
Good stuff, NFL.
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