Drew Magary: We need Friday night NFL

[Dick Whitman]

"**** high school football," he explains. People who care about it are "weird and creepy."

Why the NFL Should Make Friday Night Football a Thing

I have a 6-year-old. I take him to every home game at the local high school. He loves it and can't wait to play on the team some day.

 

[BTExpress]

We don't need Thursday NFL. Sure as hell don't need Friday.

 

[da man]

Drew Magary is weird and creepy.

 

[da man]

Drew Magary is weird and creepy.

Oh, yeah, and he sure as hell ain't from Texas.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

That column was more than half-****ty.

That said, one semi-common sense solution, is allow 53 players from the roster to be active for Thursday games only, instead of having the teams declare 8 guys inactive.

As it currently is, teams can only have 45 (46 for the 3rd string QB) players active for a game. Instead, allow them 53. If one of the 53 is hurt and can't play, the team can call up a practice squad guy for that game only, and pay him a regular salary instead of the practice squad salary.

It'll help with deeper rosters, and maybe prevent some injuries. Although it's doubtful the owners would want to pay the practice squad guys the extra money that week to be on the main roster. But it may help players' health, and improve the quality of the game a little bit.

 

[JackReacher]

The best part is how seriously people will take that piece.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Nowhere does he mention that the NFL is barred from broadcasting on Friday night during high school football season by federal law. I guess it may be implicit in his second reason (protect high school football), but he should make it clear.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

GQ should've printed this in blue font to make its point clear.

 

[Starman]

Nowhere does he mention that the NFL is barred from broadcasting on Friday night during high school football season by federal law. I guess it may be implicit in his second reason (protect high school football), but he should make it clear.

NFL owners are billionaires, and federal laws do not apply to billionaires.

 

[JayFarrar]

That's such a hot take, even @PFTCommenter was impressed.
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Wait, as anyone seen Magary and @PFTCommenter in the same room at the same time?

Hash tag when two are actually one
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[bigpern23]

I think my wife would leave me if the NFL played on Fridays, too.

 

[JackReacher]

Nowhere does he mention that the NFL is barred from broadcasting on Friday night during high school football season by federal law. I guess it may be implicit in his second reason (protect high school football), but he should make it clear.

Thank you.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

They would put off Monday Night Football if it competed with the World Series.

Never once has this happened.

 

[Vombatus]

Drew Magary is weird and creepy.

He should stop drafting off my heat.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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

 

[Bradley Guire]

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.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Nowhere does he mention that the NFL is barred from broadcasting on Friday night during high school football season by federal law. I guess it may be implicit in his second reason (protect high school football), but he should make it clear.

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?

 

[YankeeFan]

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?

****, 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.

 

[da man]

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?

 

[LanceyHoward]

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?

****, 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.

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