NFL Week 2

[Mr. Sunshine]

I have to wait until Monday for the Bears to get embarrassed by a rookie quarterback. Until then ...

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Bills-Jets should be a typically bad Thursday matchup.

Unfortunately, Sunday's premier game features the Steelers, with Pittsburgh facing Cincy in what has become quite the rivalry of late. Over/under on personal fouls?

Chiefs-Texans should be a good game, too, and Saints-Giants should be the fantasy game of the week.

Sunday night is the regular-season debut of The House That Adrian's Switch Built. My first thought is that the Packers will tee off on whichever statue the Vikings have behind center, but Minnesota tends to hold serve at home in this matchup. Rodgers against that defense should be interesting.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I won't watch anyway, but for those of us in the colorblind struggle, relief. Last year it looked to me like there were 22 guys out there on the same team.

Colorblind issue fixed with new mono uniforms

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Yeah, regardless of uniforms, the game should be generally unwatchable.

 

[HanSenSE]

Another one of the mysteries of NFL scheduling: 49ers play late Monday night game on West Coast, then in early slot Sunday at Carolina. Not that it's going to make a heck of a lot of difference.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

A query for all members. Aside from professionally, how do you react to NFL game times just as a fan? I was playing golf with a couple of Pats fans last weekend and mentioned how I hated all their night game starts. The other two demurred, saying they didn't like 1 o'clock starts because they didn't want to lose quality free time on Sunday afternoons. They preferred night game, and liked the 4:30 p.m. starts best of all, because, "you watch the game and then it's dinner time."
I know I've been hopelessly operant conditioned by decades of driving back from Foxboro at 3 a.m. and/or falling bed in some hotel after two knowing I had to be up to catch an early flight home. I dislike Sunday night games, and can't bring myself to watch the Thursday nighters, even though I've been out of the business for 11 years. I'm genuinely curious how others here feel.

 

[Songbird]

Growing up Jewish sucked during NFL Sundays, when the Rams played 1 o'clock EST games, because it was 10 a.m. in L.A. and I'd be in temple.

I'd get home about 12:20, 12:30 and maybe catch the final half of the 4th quarter.

 

[bigpern23]

A query for all members. Aside from professionally, how do you react to NFL game times just as a fan? I was playing golf with a couple of Pats fans last weekend and mentioned how I hated all their night game starts. The other two demurred, saying they didn't like 1 o'clock starts because they didn't want to lose quality free time on Sunday afternoons. They preferred night game, and liked the 4:30 p.m. starts best of all, because, "you watch the game and then it's dinner time."
I know I've been hopelessly operant conditioned by decades of driving back from Foxboro at 3 a.m. and/or falling bed in some hotel after two knowing I had to be up to catch an early flight home. I dislike Sunday night games, and can't bring myself to watch the Thursday nighters, even though I've been out of the business for 11 years. I'm genuinely curious how others here feel.

The night games would be so much better if they kicked off even at 8:05 (7:35 would be even better) instead of 8:35. At least if they kicked off at 8:05, they'd end around 11-11:15 p.m., instead of closer to midnight.

In terms of attending a game, a 4 p.m. start is by far the best. Show up to tailgate at noon, home by 10 p.m.

 

[JC]

So much easier watching the NFL from the West Coast.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I loathe watching any game that runs past 11 p.m.
I prefer the 4 p.m. start time.

 

[LongTimeListener]

So much easier watching the NFL from the West Coast.

Best part of moving out here. Love the 10 a.m. Get up, nice breakfast, coffee, no time to idle away.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Growing up Jewish sucked during NFL Sundays, when the Rams played 1 o'clock EST games, because it was 10 a.m. in L.A. and I'd be in temple.

I'd get home about 12:20, 12:30 and maybe catch the final half of the 4th quarter.

You were in temple on a Sunday? Are you sure that wasn't a church, and you're really some kind of Christian denomination?

 

[poindexter]

Best part of moving out here. Love the 10 a.m. Get up, nice breakfast, coffee, no time to idle away.

I get up really early, go for a long run; or my wife and I do a hike. Hell, I had laundry going by 7:00 am last sunday. In my own warped mind, I need to be productive up until 10 am, because I am doing nothing the rest of the day. I don't turn on the tv until 10:00. Then six hours of Red Zone, the best six hours of my week.

 

[Songbird]

You were in temple on a Sunday? Are you sure that wasn't a church, and you're really some kind of Christian denomination?

Sunday School. Reform temple.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Wow. Never heard of that

 

[albert77]

I prefer the noon starts as a Saints fan. Get the misery over with early, then I can watch a good national game in the late afternoon slot while tooling around in the kitchen getting Sunday dinner together. I spend a lot of the Sunday night game tallying scores for the fantasy league of which I am commish.

I also prefer noon starts on my (usually) once-a-year trek to the Superdome for the live experience. I can leave the house around 8:30 in the morning and be parked by 10:30 or so (I always park at the Holiday Inn on Loyola), have time for a leisurely 4-block walk to the stadium and maybe step in a café for a quick bite to eat if I so desire. After the game, there's plenty of time to drive to the French Quarter for a late afternoon meal at one of the gazillion great places to eat, be on the road home by around 6-ish and be home by around 8 o'clock. Makes for a really nice full day.

 

[da man]

The night games would be so much better if they kicked off even at 8:05 (7:35 would be even better) instead of 8:35. At least if they kicked off at 8:05, they'd end around 11-11:15 p.m., instead of closer to midnight.

All you gotta do is move to Central time zone like us smart people.

 

[da man]

Sunday School. Reform temple.

Ours was a conservative synagogue and we had Hebrew School after school Tuesday and Thursday and Sunday morning.

 

[da man]

Best part of moving out here. Love the 10 a.m. Get up, nice breakfast, coffee, no time to idle away.

I prefer having a couple hours before the first kickoff to check the traps on my fantasy teams. With a noon start I can sleep in until 9 or 10 and still make sure no one's been benched or suspended or got hurt in a car wreck or something, or if some fantasy free agent (like, say, a Spencer Ware) has suddenly become a starter.

 

[MisterCreosote]

The older and more removed from my journalism career I get, the less I watch any sports, either in person or on TV.

Add in the fact that I'm at the mercy of what's on broadcast TV, which 95 percent of the time means some combination of the trifling Redskins, Ravens, Cowboys, Patriots and Steelers, the NFL is more background noise, if that, than anything else these days.