Drew Magary: We need Friday night NFL

Never once has this happened.

 

He should stop drafting off my heat.

 

The law is that the local broadcast must be blacked out.

 

It's so funny I don't know if he's serious about the basic premise.

And in my humble neck of the woods, I don't know if Friday NFL would hurt HS football attendance. It's not that great to begin with. Most of the school Twittahz I have to follow are practically begging kids to come watch their fellow student-athletes compete for that fourth playoff spot from the six-team conference.

Too many playoff spots are another rant.

 

That law was written in about 1966 and was directed at traditional broadcast networks which were heavily regulated by the FCC. Would the law apply to a cable network?

 

I always though this was a case of tradition, not law, until I looked it up, after looking at this thread.

Who would enforce this law? Could someone get a court order to prevent a national broadcast/cablecast/internet stream?

Shit, retail banks, and investment banks, merged in violation of federal law, and the only response was to change the law to allow it.

I would think you would see something similar if the NFL went ahead and scheduled Friday night games.

 

The NFL is promoting the hell out of high school football -- it wants to make sure kids (read: future NFL players) are still playing with all the concussion talk out there these days. Why in the world would the league want to undermine it by playing on Friday nights?

 

I think someone like the Texas High School Athletic Association would try to get an injunction.

 

It's called the University Interscholastic League here in Texas, but your point is well taken.

 

The MAC doesn't seem to care about this.

 

I haven't seen the MAC promoting HS football. The NFL has ads with it, features a HS team every week on its Sunday night game, etc. The league is clearly in favor of high school football.

Plus, in all but a very, very few instances, MAC games aren't a threat to high school football attendance.

 

I'm sure everyone involved with high school and college football in the Toledo area, for instance, would prefer if MAC football wasn't played on Friday. But they understand the MAC's gotta do what its gotta do to get a TV deal.

There was a Friday night college game in this area about a month ago and a lot of local high schools played on Thursday. That's OK for a once every few years thing, but I don't think it would fly on the reg.