Wednesday, December 3, 2014

If I was running the NFL...

I actually tinkered with this idea a few days ago and I like it but what do you guys think? Is this crazy? Here is how I would run the NFL. Now this is just my opinion. Ok, here it goes...






THE NFL SEASON 2015

     




         Season starts on Sept. 13. No kickoff game. The real NFL starts on Sunday.

       Season ends on Jan 10, 2016. 16 games over 18 weeks. 2 bye weeks for each team.

       Week 12 is Thanksgiving so no bye weeks that week and the Turkey Day games are Divisional                      
       games.


              Thanksgiving Games


               Packers at. Lions
               Giants at. Cowboys
               Steelers at. Bengals

 There would be 8 1pm games and 3  4pm games for week 12.



The Bye Weeks

Week 3, 10-AFC South and NFC West
Week 4, 11-AFC East and NFC South
Week 5, 13-AFC West and NFC South
Week 6, 14-AFC North and NFC East

On those weeks-6  1pm games and 3  4 pm games plus SNF and MNF.

When there are no bye weeks, you could really have 10 1pm games and 4  4 pm games or any other combination.

Next year, Christmas Eve falls on a Thursday so I'm assuming there will be an NFL game. Put it at 3:30 ET. and feature maybe 2 west coast teams.


Bring back the Saturday Games!!

I would do that for Sat. Dec. 19 and Dec. 26. Therefore there would be no bowl games on those Saturdays. Have them in the middle of the week. Probably get better ratings too.


So the Saturday schedule would go:

12:30pm-CBS
4pm-FOX
8pm-ESPN




Then the following week I'd alternate the networks so for example:

12:30 PM -FOX
4PM-CBS
8PM-ESPN

Now, next year, Christmas Eve falls on a Thursday so I'm assuming there will be an NFL game. Put it at 3:30 ET. and feature maybe 2 west coast teams. Then on the 26th have the 3 Saturday games and then on the 27th  have 7 1pm games and 3 4pm games with SNF and MNF.

Now if NBC wanted in,  then put some network would be left out although they have SNF so I think they would be happy. So then on Dec. 20, you could have 8 1pm games and 3 4pm games along with SNF and MNF.


Have 3 London games. Start each one at 9:30 am. Have one be televised by FOX, another by CBS and the last one by ESPN.

I'd eliminate the TNF package and move those games to Sundays.

So the last week of the season would be week 18 on Jan. 11, 2016

Wild Card Round on Jan. 17 and 18, 2016
Divisional Round on Jan. 24 and 25, 2016
Championship Games on Feb. 1, 2016
Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 15, 2016


So what do you guys think? Do you like it?

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