NFL - Two Monday Night Games a Week
 

NEW YORK (AP) -- NFL owners may be asked to consider the possibility of two Monday night games each week to avoid the recurring problem of meaningless late-season games in the league's showcase telecast.

Commissioner Paul Tagliabue floated the idea in the second of a two-part interview aired Thursday night on HBO's ``Inside the NFL.''

``We'd like to look to see if we could put more than one game in the prime-time window,'' he said. ``The one that is more attractive would be telecast nationally; the other could be telecast regionally.''

The Monday night schedule is released in early spring. Teams with winning records the previous year normally play in the majority of the prime-time games.

But salary-cap induced parity has led to drastic annual fluctuations. If this season ended now, nine of last season's 12 playoff teams would miss the postseason, including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders, who played in the Super Bowl.

So, ABC has been asking the league for the flexibility to switch a Sunday game to Monday late in a season to avoid a meaningless matchup. Fox and CBS, which have the contracts for Sunday games, have resisted, suggesting that they would lose viewers if there was a late switch that took an attractive matchup from their schedule.

Tagliabue said a late switch also would inconvenience fans with tickets for a game. His alternative would be the two games.

But that would still have to be approved by the networks and the owners -- perhaps at league meetings next March. He did not say what financial arrangements would be involved, although ABC would have to make a financial concession to the network that loses a Sunday game.

Last year, the owners discussed the possibility of switching Sunday and Monday night games. But because of opposition from Fox and CBS, there was no vote taken.



Good Idea or Bad idea?

I Think It's A Good Idea Cuz I Usually Look Forward To Monday Nights, Night After First Day Of The Week Back At School... And I'm Lookin For A Good Game... If It's Whack... I Still Watch It... But It Isn't That Much Exciting.

Bad Idea. My bedtime is at 10.

^lol

i personally think it's gay...
it'll cause less viewers to one of the games..

^Does that effect you any? nope.. it effects the high rolling ABC producers and that about it. For us, it offers an opportunity to watch a game that actually matters instead of these shitfests.

Yup..I agree, this would be a good idea, because I need to watch football, and theres more of a chance of a good game, rather then what I watch for two sloppy teams from my state...who's stadium is in another state.

yea cause there aint shit else to watch