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smackababy said:
Why are we constantly sending our shittiest teams to London? We sent the Raiders and the Jags are up next. Is the NFL secretly trying to get London to hate football so they don't have to put a team there?
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I don't get why were send ANY teams there, there will never be a team there that will be viable for the rest of the league.
 
Thursday, Oct 2
Vikings at Green Bay 8:25

Sunday, October 5
Chicago at Carolina 1 p.m.
Cleveland at Tennessee 1 p.m.
St. Louis at Philadelphia 1 p.m.
Atlanta at NY Giants 1 p.m.
Tampa Bay at New Orleans 1 p.m.
Houston at Dallas 1 p.m.
Buffalo at Detroit 1 p.m.
Baltimore at Indianapolis 1 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville 1 p.m.
Arizona at Denver 4:05 p.m.
Kansas City at San Francisco 4:25 p.m.
NY Jets at San Diego 4:25 p.m.
Cincinnati at New England 8:30 p.m.

Monday, October 6
Seattle at Washington
 
Imported said:
Hoping the AT&T merger with DirecTV lets me get Sunday Ticket on UVerse..

As for flags, I feel like I have to wait a few seconds after every big play or defensive stop on third down to see if a flag comes out. That's not how I should be watching the game..
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DTV has pledge to expand Sunday Ticket availability to other subscribers. I wouldn't put it past U-Verse from getting it though; the merger specifically had an out clause for AT&T that if the NFL didn't renew the deal with DirecTV, they could cancel the merger.

RPD said:
I don't get why were send ANY teams there, there will never be a team there that will be viable for the rest of the league.
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London is a large market and people go to the games. The NFL is attempting to expand, and making a few million on sending two teams every couple weeks isn't awful. However, expanding a team there would prove problematic for travel purposes, especially for Monday night games where the teams play on Thursday in London.

The problem with the US sports is we don't have anything close to the Merseyside Derby (Liverpool vs Everton). Their stadiums are literally less than a mile apart. You can see the other from the top rows of the stadiums. It is a great rivalry. Our rivalries are 1000s of mile apart. I think the closest we have are the Lakers vs Clippers and the White Sox vs the Cubs, neither of which are of much significance.
 
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Exactly having a team based on the other side of an ocean means traveling will be a huge, HUGE factor for either team.
 
Minnesota at Green Bay
Tampa Bay at New Orleans
St. Louis at Philadelphia
Cleveland at Tennessee
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville
Atlanta at NY Giants
Chicago at Carolina
Houston at Dallas
Buffalo at Detroit
Baltimore at Indianapolis
Arizona at Denver
NY Jets at San Diego Go Chargers! 😀
Kansas City at San Francisco
Cincinnati at New England
Seattle at Washington

33-28

Doing well in the odd weeks so hopefully that trend will continue.
 
RPD said:
Exactly having a team based on the other side of an ocean means traveling will be a huge, HUGE factor for either team.
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The only way it would would is another division in Europe, and obviously that didn't work too well last time.
 
If ponder can play smart and get some first downs this could be a game. Vikes can get some push for their running backs.
 
lupi said:
rain must be keeping people away, looks barely 1/3 full now.
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Thursday nights are shitty nights for football attendance. Can't really tailgate before hand like you can on a Sunday. Can't take the kids since they'll be up till midnight and still have school on Friday. As an adult it sucks taking a PTO day off to recover from a football game the night before.

Sunday Afternoon games are much easier on fans.
 
Soccerman06 said:
Holy balls ponders you suck
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Yes he does.

I was wondering why Norv wasn't pounding the ball against a well below avg Packers Run D, and Asiata fumbles after getting 10 yards lol. Either way they should have been pounding it on every down, Asiata was getting 4 yard chunks earlier. Classic Norv Turner, fail.
 
game isn't nearly as bad as the score, just small mistakes or slightly off play performance really screwing them now.
 
these teams are trying to beat each previous thursday night games: trying to make each successive game crappier than the week before.
 
Phoenix86 said:
Speaking of rolling the dice... Thursday night football, do I risk it again? You burn me almost every time, this aberration of a night for football.
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Just got home and turned on the game, looks like I made the right call!

edit: Ponder goes down for the 6th time. 😱 😱 😱
 
I know people have been saying this for a long time, and I agree with them, but these TNF games are of terrible quality.

I will continue to watch them simply because I'll take NFL football basically any day of the week, but I'll be more content watching the MLB playoffs when they air on Thursday nights, while occasionally checking in on the NFL.

And btw, the Vikings may be competing for the worst record in the NFL this year if they keep this up.
 
purbeast0 said:
another primetime game, another blowout.
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Sims and whatshisface said that "3 top lopsided games records for TNF...last 3 weeks."

it's time bury this fuckhole. Everyone knows it.

Just look at this situation tonight: Bridgwater could have been rested and ready to play by Sunday (dude claims tomorrow night; who knows). Fact of the matter: you completely jeapordize any random team's chance of being competitive based on this shithole rest period.

minnesota is terrible team, obviously; but they deserved the chance to compete at their current best-known level. This Thursday night anomaly refused them that opportunity.
 
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