Who's to blame? NFLN or the cable companies?

[Patler]

[quote="JustinHarrell"]

There is some extra depth to this, but I"m not so sure the NFL will be able to take it to the point where they start takign away what we already have. I think they need that much free exposure to keep people hooked.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but it seems to me they already have taken away games that were free in the past!

[MJZiggy]

No, you're not mistaken...Do you think they shifted the scheduling to include Thursday night games and Saturday night games so that people wouldn't notice the shift? Or so that they didn't have an alternative?

[Patler]

No, you're not mistaken...Do you think they shifted the scheduling to include Thursday night games and Saturday night games so that people wouldn't notice the shift? Or so that they didn't have an alternative?

Yes and Yes!

We are used to Sunday afternoon games and Monday night games, There have been Sunday night and Saturday games in the past, as well as a few Thursdays, but Sunday afternoon and Monday nights are the ones engrained in us.

It doesn't shock us as much that we do not get a game free that is at a time we don't normally expect to watch football. In some ways it makes us more willing to pay for it because it is something we didn't used to have. It's almost like an added benefit, although in reality it takes away a free game we had, but at a different time, in the past.