The sick joke on America that is Thursday Night Football

In fairness thread title should read "NFL Thursday Night Football" because
the college game has for the most part been great for Thursday's.

As example last night Arizona knocking off #2 Oregon.

 

Call me old-fashioned, but I miss the days when Thursday nights were all about red, hot MACtion.

 

I believe that's Tuesday now.

 

I know, C-USAction is a poor substitute. Sorry, Houston, I need my CMU fix.

 

As an aside, I happened upon a CUSA game (Florida International at Alabama-Birmingham) on my cable system on channel 380, which houses a very low-power Chicago station that is an affiliate of a network called Soul of the South.

http://www.ssn.tv/

It was glorious. It was low-grade standard definition, with "ads" that mostly were PSAs and Michelle Beadle talking about C-USA. I felt like I was in my neighbor friend's basement in 1979.

 

That actually was a pretty good game. UAB should have won, but nobody can go 0-6 in turnovers and win a game. That FIU defense is for real. Destroyed FAU last night, with a 100 yard fumble return and an interception in the end zone.

Fun to watch.

 

I remember the infamous Virginia-Florida State game from almost 20 years ago.

I covered an AD who staunchly refused to play on Thursday nights because he said no team playing during the middle of the week is focused on the game.

 

I miss when they were about Cheers and Night Court.

 

And on a lot of campuses, it makes for a parking nightmare with fans arriving in town while students are still in class.

 

I'm always surprised when I see a program like Oregon playing on a Thursday night. I figured it would be mostly schools who need exposure, but maybe ESPN is so powerful these days that it can make anyone play during the week if it sees a game that it wants.

 

LongTimeListener, that was a cogent, well-argued Hot Sports Take. Good work.