Shame on the NFL for planning a game Christmas Eve night in San Diego!
Christmas Eve has replaced Christmas Day as the time many families and churches now get together for the holiday.
Now you have people who have paid upwards of $100 per ticket who must choose on Christmas Eve among family, church or the Chargers-Denver Broncos game at Qualcomm Stadium.
A 1971 Christmas Day playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs went into two overtimes, reputedly causing many family divorces and quarrels in the process.
This year, you have the NFL saying “tough beans” about those having to choose between football and families.
The solution? How about if the Chargers-Broncos game kicked off at 1 p.m. so players, fans, stadium workers, media, etc. could all be home with their families for Christmas Eve night?
Of course, the stupid 5 p.m. kickoff time is all about ESPN the NFL and the “national” television audience.
In reality, how many people on the East Coast are going to watch a game between two teams in the NFL’s worst division with an 8 p.m. eastern kickoff? (They’d be much more likely to watch a game at 4 p.m. eastern time before getting on with their Christmas Eve activities.)
If/when this game has the worst Monday Night Football rating of the season, the NFL and ESPN should look themselves in the face and say “we screwed up.”
How awful to put faithful fans between a rock and a hard place on what has become the most holy night in the religious world!
Prediction:
Chargers 34, Broncos 17
Christmas Eve has replaced Christmas Day as the time many families and churches now get together for the holiday.
Now you have people who have paid upwards of $100 per ticket who must choose on Christmas Eve among family, church or the Chargers-Denver Broncos game at Qualcomm Stadium.
A 1971 Christmas Day playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs went into two overtimes, reputedly causing many family divorces and quarrels in the process.
This year, you have the NFL saying “tough beans” about those having to choose between football and families.
The solution? How about if the Chargers-Broncos game kicked off at 1 p.m. so players, fans, stadium workers, media, etc. could all be home with their families for Christmas Eve night?
Of course, the stupid 5 p.m. kickoff time is all about ESPN the NFL and the “national” television audience.
In reality, how many people on the East Coast are going to watch a game between two teams in the NFL’s worst division with an 8 p.m. eastern kickoff? (They’d be much more likely to watch a game at 4 p.m. eastern time before getting on with their Christmas Eve activities.)
If/when this game has the worst Monday Night Football rating of the season, the NFL and ESPN should look themselves in the face and say “we screwed up.”
How awful to put faithful fans between a rock and a hard place on what has become the most holy night in the religious world!
Prediction:
Chargers 34, Broncos 17
2 comments:
On chargers.com, everybody is all for the game on the night of Christmas Eve. Very slanted views by people with no lives. I'm with you: The NFL should be taken to task for this decision.
Who makes these decisions to disrupt people's life with a game on Christmas eve? Who did the schedule, the Grinch or Ebeneeze Scrooge?
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