Week 16.....almost every game is played on Saturday?

[dave416]

So I get this pocket NFL schedule today. And I see that Christmas falls on a Sunday this year. So the majority of the games will be played on Saturday in week 16 (The exceptions are Minny at Baltimore, and Chicago at GB on Christmas, and I believe a few other games that are played Monday and Thurs, correct me if I am wrong). Just thought it was interesting with the short week for some teams, and the fact that I have never seen this before. This will also fall while many leagues decide their playoffs and championships.

[Mercer Boy]

Yeah, normally some games are played on Saturday during the last few weeks of the season, but not all of them. Once college football is done, they like to spread out the games to get more viewers.

I don't think it will really cause much of a problem...everyone will be on the same playing field as far as rest time. You just have to make sure your lineup is in a day ahead of time.

[bost0n]

Gotta love the Christmas games. Looks good to me.

[lmcjaho]

Any idea of how this will affect the Sunday Ticket? Last year the games that were on Saturday were all on the major networks and Sunday Ticket didn't show them. Even the games that got moved to Saturday (Miami early?) that didn't have a big network carrying them didn't show up on Sunday Ticket...

Will these games?

[M_Zimm_ffc]

Any idea of how this will affect the Sunday Ticket? Last year the games that were on Saturday were all on the major networks and Sunday Ticket didn't show them. Even the games that got moved to Saturday (Miami early?) that didn't have a big network carrying them didn't show up on Sunday Ticket...

Will these games?

Starting last season Sunday ticket signed something with the local networks so that any game that is on your local stations (the Fox and CBS in your area) is blacked out on your Sunday ticket. And then they make the price for it higher. It sucks, but I'm sure it will be the same this year. The more spread out the games are, the more that will be able to be on your local stations. Generally they'd show your local teams (in my case Atlanta and Carolina) but if they aren't playing I'm sure they'll have the only game that's on showing; which means Sunday ticket will have it blacked out in your area.

Last year I tried unplugging my receiver from the phone jack to see if it still picked up that those games are being showed on local TV...it didn't work. So it looks like we're stuck.

[lmcjaho]

Starting last season Sunday ticket signed something with the local networks so that any game that is on your local stations (the Fox and CBS in your area) is blacked out on your Sunday ticket. And then they make the price for it higher. It sucks, but I'm sure it will be the same this year. The more spread out the games are, the more that will be able to be on your local stations. Generally they'd show your local teams (in my case Atlanta and Carolina) but if they aren't playing I'm sure they'll have the only game that's on showing; which means Sunday ticket will have it blacked out in your area.

Last year I tried unplugging my receiver from the phone jack to see if it still picked up that those games are being showed on local TV...it didn't work. So it looks like we're stuck.

Hmmm... I'm in Canada so their isn't really a "local" team for me - but one of the Buffalo games did get blacked out last year - only one I can remember to be honest...

Will have to keep an eye on this...