and there are games scheduled this year on Christmas we just happened to get the Sat game that weekend Well just a Sunday night game on Christmas this year Bears Packers
Wow! 3 home night games and a Christmas Eve game (out of 8) This is the price for being a national team At least the Sunday night games start @ 8:20
There will be one game on Christmas. The NFL is okay with a single game being played on Christmas. What they do not want is a full slate of games on Christmas. Remember this is a league that less than a quarter century ago moved playoff games to a weekday to avoid playing on Christmas.
WTF? Patriots on a Sunday night game, then a cross country away game on Thursday in Denver? A three week road trip that starts week 3 includes the ravens, patriots, and a cross country trip to Oakland? Thats some bad luck of the draw.
Having lost a family friend and fellow Jets fan on 9/11 really would of made the day a bit less depressing for the family, friends, and I.
No. It makes zero sense to me. For the life of me, I cannot see one good reason why Giants vs Jets makes any sense on 9/11. 9/11/01 was the darkest day in U.S. history. There is nothing to celebrate on 9/11/11 unless it is to say, "Hey look, we're still standing, we're still playing football, we're still enjoying freedom blah blah blah." The 10 year anniversary is not going to be a fun day. There is a strong likelihood that it will be a somber day of reflection and thinking about the changes to our lives since 9/11/01. Play football that day, unfurl the giant flag at each game, have the fly-overs, donate all concession money at all the games to families of 9/11 victims, etc. I'm all for that kind of stuff. New York vs New York on 9/11 would likely result in New York being a big loser, as in one of the teams would likely lose (there of course is a small chance of a tie). Why would the league create a 9/11 anniversary celebration party lovefest if one New York team was virtually guaranteed to lose? C'mon now. One of my friends today texted me with this after we had both heard the rumor of a NYG-NYJ 9/11 game- "It's almost embarrassingly theatrical. I'm also sick of hearing God Bless America during the seventh inning stretch, whatever happened to Take Me Out to the Ballgame?" Now, on to actual football problems. The Jets and Giants are slated to play in the third week of the preseason schedule. If they meet in Week 1, we're looking at two Giants-Jets games in three weeks. The third preseason game is usually the dress rehearsal. Let's suppose the lockout ends in May or June. That dress rehearsal third preseason game is going to be even more important than it's been than ever before due to the fact that coaches haven't been working with and staying in contact with their players this offseason. Stuff that would have been implemented during OTAs will now have to be drilled into players' heads in July and August. If the Jets and Giants had to meet in Week 1, they would play super super vanilla in the preseason game. It would be worse than the annual Eagles-Jets preseason games. Fans, particularly season ticket holders, complain enough (and rightfully so) about having to pay for preseason games but yet some of them want an absolute garbage Giants-Jets preseason game this year. Just about every year Giants and Jets fans can somewhat get excited for that game. There would be nothing this year. Getting back to the 9/11 stuff, heaven forbid the NFL lockout extends into August and the early games either get pushed back or cancelled. How would that go down with the public?
Huh? The Jets, if the lockout ends soon enough that the game is not moved or cancelled, are going to play on 9/11. It's just that the opponent will be Dallas instead of the Giants. I would like to see both New York teams win on 9/11. That would make for a slightly more pleasant day and night in the tri-state area on the anniversary of such an awful day.
It's always a good thing when you play a bad team after your bye and that could catapult us to a long winning streak.
The Broncos game sucks. There's no reason for us to play them in prime time, and to make things worse, we have to play them on a Thursday night right after we play the Pats on Sunday night. Here's hoping that they'll be starting Tebow.
Very well answered ( I know you didn't answer it to get my approval) , just saying thank you for answering with your differing opinion but being very mature about it while making many valid points. I guess I was more looking at the fact having a team play in NY on that day is a big deal to some, picking which team gets the honor , to me, was the tricky part.
Well I mean at least its the Broncos and not the Chargers or Chiefs. Theyll be a rather easy team to beat as long as we keep them one dimensional. I think theyll still have Orton in but that team always has some sort of injurt concern and we know we can beat them through the air.
Well can we say Tomlinson will be hyped up to play the Chargers week 7? I like our schedule if we are as good as we think we are we should win a majority of these games.
