Thursday Night Football rights worth $800 million?

[JeremyHight]

I'm not a huge fan of Thursday night games... but I still watch them. People can bash the over-saturation, but lets be honest, we keep watching. Hence why TNF games will be worth 800 million for games like the Browns vs Bills.

[Bomberooski]

I do know this, I'd rather have Thursday games than games in England.

[Houston]

who was it again? Oh yeah, it was ME.

Up until this point my money was on Zoneblitz.

[Hasselbeck]

Thursday Night Football should only happen if the league starts giving teams bye weeks before they are scheduled to play. Football isn't like baseball or basketball, it cant be played on short rest.. at least not to a respectable quality where you want to tune in and watch.

The league also needs to abandon the stupid rule that every team needs a primetime game and expand upon flex scheduling.

Of course all of this is just leading to Goodell's 18 game schedule and expansion to 34 teams to allow Los Angeles to run another franchise into the ground and give London a crack at an NFL Franchise.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Thursday Night Football should only happen if the league starts giving teams bye weeks before they are scheduled to play. Football isn't like baseball or basketball, it cant be played on short rest.. at least not to a respectable quality where you want to tune in and watch.

The league also needs to abandon the stupid rule that every team needs a primetime game and expand upon flex scheduling.

Of course all of this is just leading to Goodell's 18 game schedule and expansion to 34 teams to allow Los Angeles to run another franchise into the ground and give London a crack at an NFL Franchise.

All shtick aside, everything here is valid, especially your first statement. It's pretty grimy to talk player safety and then ask these guys to play games on three days rest. In 2012 the Ravens & Eagles both played 4 games in 17 days. That's just crazy.

[Guest]

Let Rams have his trolling schtick, you're better than that.

It's the heel schtick, though, not the trolling one.

And W2B, I agreed with you on this one as well.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Gross. Especially the double header TNF. Goodell needs to be concussed repeatedly.

Can't wait for someone to post ratings obscurity and tell us TNF is exciting and everyone else is watching.

[Hasselbeck]

Gross. Especially the double header TNF. Goodell needs to be concussed repeatedly.

Can't wait for someone to post ratings obscurity and tell us TNF is exciting and everyone else is watching.

• The 13-game schedule produced the most-watched season for Thursday Night Football, with an average of 8.0 million viewers. That was up 10% from the 2012 season average.

• The most-viewed game came in Week 3 when an average of 11.1 million viewers watched the Chiefs defeat the Eagles on Sept. 19. The game’s 7.0 rating was the highest-rated Thursday Night Football telecast in NFL Network history.

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Bad football on a network not everyone gets still averaged 8 million viewers a week.

It's not going away any time soon. Hence why they absolutely NEED to structure the schedule to have bye weeks occur the week before the matchup takes place.

I think they also need to expand flex scheduling to include Monday Night games .. and push back the time period when you can flex to like Week 8 or something, when we are able to easier assess what teams suck and what teams do not.