Quote Originally Posted by Patler View Post
NFL games were special when they were limited to Sundays. NFC was CBS, AFC was NBC. You always knew where to find a game. The late games were limited to west coast teams playing at 1:00 their time. For a while, CBS and NBC alternated having a national broadcast of a second game at 3:00. Saw a lot of the Raiders, 49ers and Rams in those days. Three games on Sunday, but you had to switch back and forth between the two early games played at the same time, That was a lot of work in the days before remotes, and, yes, mechanical tuners could wear out!

The radical move to add Monday night games on ABC was a huge deal. Most of you might not appreciate what a big deal that was. People talked about the games all day Monday and all day Tuesday. Monday night football parties were huge, they felt almost like playoff games. Not many people I knew had more than one TV, so sometimes non-fans (usually wives/girlfriends) would get together at one house while other met at another to watch the game. For a while, NBC and CBS ran Monday night movies opposite ABC's Monday night football.

Every game was still a special event.

Now, I look at the jumbled up mess, with four time slots on Sundays, one or two on Mondays, plus Thursday. (Do they still play any Saturday games? They did for a while.) Never knowing when your team plays, with the possible last minute time shift, and bye weeks thrown in, it has gotten to be too much work to foloow teams and scores. Games aren't "special" at all anymore.
I remember those days of having to flip channels and yes, MNF was definitely a treat (Chargers/Dolphins anyone?).

The NFL won't do Saturday games until the playoffs, because Saturday belongs to college football and they are done by that time.