They want a game that will definitely be meaningful for at least one team and try to put games whose significance is drastically impacted by another game on at the same time. It seems to me like LA/AZ would have been a better pick, but they chose this one for some reason.
I know it will never happen but I think all games should be played at 1 PM Eastern in final week of regular season. It would make teams with playoff hopes on the line crazy aggressive.
You could start the season with Sunday Night Football a week earlier so they still get the same number of prime time games.
Would starting all AFC games at 1 and all NFC games a 4 accomplish the same thing? What if they made it 4 and 8 and skipped the early games to accommodate the west coast viewers?
I like this idea, but as a tangent Iâm a little sick of âaccommodating the west coast viewersâ by starting games so that they end after midnight Eastern time. (This isnât unique to football, btw.)