Well the NFL has announced its plans to anally rape the average American football fan by placing several primetime NFL matches out of the reach of anyone not subscribing to The NFL Network.
As already mentioned, it starts on Thanksgiving, and just keeps getting worse. The NFL Network's regular-season game schedule features eight late-season games on Thursday and Saturday nights as part of the NFL's new "Run Up to the Playoffs" national package. Without offering anything of interest to most football fans, the NFL hopes to fuck the hell out of by making us either pay up or run off to a sports bar to see games that may possibly have playoff implications.
I think you will find that the next time television contracts come up for review, there will be playoff games televised only on the NFL Network. After that, The Superbowl. The NFL and the NFL owners are going to make crybaby MLB players look dignified.
2006 National Football League National Television Schedule
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Thursday, Nov. 23 Denver at Kansas City (8 p.m. ET, NFL Network)
Thursday, Nov. 30 Baltimore at Cincinnati (8 p.m. ET, NFL Network)
Thursday, Dec. 7 Cleveland at Pittsburgh (8 p.m. ET, NFL Network)
Thursday, Dec. 14 San Francisco at Seattle (8 p.m. ET, NFL Network)
Saturday, Dec. 16 Dallas at Atlanta (8 p.m. ET, NFL Network)
Thursday, Dec. 21 Minnesota at Green Bay (8 p.m. ET, NFL Network)
Saturday, Dec. 23 Kansas City at Oakland (8 p.m. ET, NFL Network)
Saturday, Dec. 30 N.Y. Giants at Washington (8 p.m. ET, NFL Network)
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And they will likely reschedule some Sunday evening primetime games under their new "flexible" schedule so redlemon, everything that you can expect bad to come from this is likely going to come to reality.