Thursday night football on TV is great...which is why ESPN, and to a lesser extent the NFL, started the whole thing.Lions4ever wrote:I don't agree. In the US Thursdays have been appointment football nights for years. ESPN has featured a major college clash on Thursdays for a very long time and the stadia are packed. There have been some memorable games too (think Oregon State's epic defeat of USC last season). More recently the NFL has set its sights on Thursday nights. You can be sure they wouldn't do so unless they thought it was a winner.gizmo fan 2 wrote:Don't mean to put down BC fans or the Lions at all...but you aren't "taking one for the league" by getting Friday nights throughout the summer.
We here in Edmonton would kill (well, maybe not kill...but maim, at least) to have your home schedule. As bad as Fridays may be in BC...try two summers solid of Thursdays.
But you look up those schedules (NCAA nationally televised games, and NFL games) and I'll guarantee that no one team has more than one Thursday home game.
A Thursday night home game where it's your team? Is lousy. Four or five or them in a row? Exponentially lousy. Four or five of them in a row for two years straight? Quantum-leap lousy.
There's a reason they spread them all out among the teams - because as good as they are on TV, they're horrible for home fans. And that's the best way to do it...no complaints at all if we had one. Or even two. But a whole summer's worth, for two years? Unacceptable.
