The NFL Is FINALLY Adding More Monday Night Football Double Header's To Its Schedule
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Forgive me but I'm going to pat myself on the back on this one.
I've been, some might call it "psychotic", (I call it passionate), about this issue for a while now.
Some people are quality people. Some people are quantity people. I'm a quality guy. Always have been. I'd rather have lesser of something that's better quality than more dogshit.
And you're lying to yourself if you think Thursday Night Football is anything more than dogshit.
The players hate it. The coaches hate it. The matchups are always dog shit. The quality of play is always dog shit. The networks that broadcast it and their announcer teams are dogshit. The propensity for potential injury skyrockets on a short week. The list goes on and on.
Aside from all that, there's almost nothing better than getting two Monday Night Football matchups.
Especially in the dark days of November or December when you wake up and its dark out. And you get home from work and its dark out. Mondays suck in general. But they suck extra in the cold months. So coming home from work, ordering food and posting up on your couch for not one BUT two quality prime-time NFL games with a nice six-pack of High Life makes Mondays amazing.
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It's a win-win for everybody.
If you're on the east coast you've got the first game kicking off around 6 o'clock right when you walk in the door, and the second around d 9/9:30 meaning you can watch both and hopefully be in bed before midnight/1 am.
If you're on the west coast, you've got the second game actually kicking off at a time you can watch without having to leave work early or sneak on your phone to see.
And if you're in the central time zone, the greatest, it's ideal viewing for everything as always.
The players and coaches get an extra day's rest, they're playing in front of a national audience, and the rest of the league as is always the case on MNF, now it's 4 squads instead of 2. Hopefully, this is the first step towards making it a weekly tradition going forward.
p.s. - yah I guess the news of them flexing the last 5 weeks of the season on Monday Nights is big too. No longer will we be subjected to watching Washington battle Carolina in early December and hear ESPN try to hype up matchups of quarterbacks who won't be in the league in two years. So I guess that's a win too.