Popeyejones":1hoycexy said:
By 6AM every morning I'm up with my daughter. By 830 AM every morning I've worked out and ready for work. I knock out the hardest and most focused tasks of my day in the morning because I've got more energy.
East Coast teams are regularly playing football while the rest of the world is tired, winding down, and eating dinner.
The 10AM start time thing amounts to not much more than junk stats and whiny overblown nonsense, IMO. I'm not just targeting Hawks fans with this, as 9ers fans bring it up too whenever they happen to lose a 1PM EST start time game.
People don't like it when their team loses and grab at any reason they can that's not their team getting beaten to make excuses for it.
Nothing escapes the gravitational pull of your 1994 Limited Edition Excuse'O Meter does it? We went round and round discussing penalty disparity a while back.
What's your daughters 40 time? Is she a big hitter or just hard to catch? Like sitting on your ass while your little girl chomps a bowl of cereal is in any way comparable to participating in an NFL contest. :177692:
By the way, the players are most likely up by 4:30-5:30 am (body clock) on game day.
Listen, most of us are jocks/former jocks and understand the "No Excuse" mantra that was beaten into our souls from the day we put on our jersey. Because the only thing you can control on the field is "You", so anything outside of that is labeled an excuse and should be dismissed. It's a nice life lesson. No matter what shitty circumstance you find yourself in, You control You, now dig your way out. It doesn't change the fact that sometimes you got a lot more digging to do than your neighbor through no fault of your own. As fans, we control nothing but our decision to watch or not watch, so this rule doesn't apply no matter how much you beat your toughguy chest saying it does. :th2thumbs:
As a matter of fact, the only way we "Participate" outside of ourselves is through discussion, whys, wherefores, and how-tos. How bout we all log in after the game, click macro: if win={type} [we better them] else=if lose{type} [we suck, no excuse, get more better] then=log off.
I say we do this. Primetimers are played at what 830pm EST? I Say the West should play at 830pm PST in West Coast primetime games. Why do we have to move it back 3 hours to accomodate them? Their fans can DVR it if they are too wimpy to miss a little sleep to support their team.
We know why. 26 owners and 26 fanbases would be apoplectic over it, their teams would get smashed, and ratings would plunge due to the extreme inconvenience of that time slot for most of the nation.
On the other hand, "Hey Joe, instead of a 1pm kickoff, what about a 4pm kickoff?"
"Are you crazy Willy?! Do you know what that would do to alter the Space Time Continuum?"
"I hadn't considered that Joe. I'm sorry I even brought it up. We're still friends right?"
The arguments against are just about that silly. It's either about money or 26 owners and fanbases who are unaffected negatively and may even possibly receive a minor advantage occasionally. So 80% of league, no negative-possible postive outcome? Yep, just fine as it is.
Owners making money and NFL image intact. Nothing else to consider from a league office perspective.