Thursday Night Football
This is an accurate representation of me most Thursday nights, including the game this week where Biscuits beat the Texans. I was assembling some IKEA furniture on Thursday and suddenly remembered there was a game I wanted to see on TV and lo and behold, it was the two minute warning. Even after several seasons, I just can’t really get TNF ingrained into my schedule.
This is pretty much my main complaint with TNF since it’s inception. This is a highly biased personal opinion here, but I think Football should be a weekend thing. Saturday for you college fans. Sunday for us Pro fans. Monday night as like a little mini optional desert to the weekend’s main course, but it still feels connected because it’s just the next day and I’d wager most fans are like me and they’ve spent most of monday procrastinating and reading football news from the weekend’s games. Thursday night feels so…removed, especially since it’s Pro ball, which means after Thursday’s appetizer you have to wait 2 days for more. I feel like it was intended to make it so football has a primetime presence for a good percentage of the week so “you can watch football whenever!”but it has the opposite effect of making the TNF games feel bizarrely isolated and stupid. The teams don’t like them due to the limited recovery and practice time. I bet every other network hates them because it’s impossible to really put a show up against football and get solid ratings. On top of that half the games are pretty shit. For every Jets/Bills we get at least two Texans/Pats.
The thing is during the week I’m just not in a football zone. The week is for work. Football is the end of week reward. I’m going about my usual weeknight stuff (work, relaxing if I’m done work, making dinner, whatnot) and then I remember a game is on and it’s irritating because I’ve already missed a portion of it but I feel like I have to watch it to keep up with everything. TNF feels like something for casual fans who can just turn it on if they feel like it, and an active annoyance for die-hards who have to set aside another separate 3 1/2 hours to keep up for fantasy purposes or just watercooler chat.
I might feel more charitable towards it if I still lived on the eastern time zone. Football interrupts weeknight dinner in PST so my mind is usually elseware Thursday nights. I love 5:30 primetime games on the weekend and I love how all the night games end at 9:30 (Waaaaaay better than EST games) but the 5:30 start time really makes TNF forgettable, probably more forgettable than it would be on the EST because I’m usually done being an adult by 8pm. Yet I never have this issue on Mondays. So maybe TNF is just stupid.
Hmmm, TNF gives us an extra 3 hours of Phil Simms every week, so maybe there is something to that hypothesis.
Nothing on the Pats’ 3rd stringer getting injured aswell? At this rate, Brady’ll get murdered in the 2nd quarter of the Browns game and we’ll have to put Edleman at QB.
You can have your choice of Cleveland QB for a seventh rounder and a month’s supply of dog food for Swagger.
Yeah, I moved to Portland OR about a week before the season started and that first Monday night with two games and the Thursday Night games coming on when the sun is up honestly freaks me out a little.
that Vin Scully is riding off into the sunset this year and yet Phil Simms and Joe Buck continue to be first-string game commentators is proof that there is no loving God and we are on our own in a cruel universe that delights in our suffering
The Biscuits? Am I missing something?
Jacoby Biscuits (Brissett)
That’s kind of reaching, now isn’t it?
I didn’t make up the name 😛
Apparently Biscuits might have injured his thumb. But nobody cares since Blount destroyed everyone that day.
Biscuits is hurt?
SEXY REXY TO THE PATRIOTS
Everyone calls him Jacoby Brisket.
That’s what I was gonna say. The only Biscuits in the NFL is the guy that owns the Ravens.
Dave has been pushing the biscuits thing pretty hard even though Jacoby’s last name is literally only one letter off from Brisket (Brisset), and every other person in the free world calls him Brisket, also Texas brisket is delicious…
Why is Dave doing the laundry with shirts that are not Eli Jerseys when that’s all we’ve seen Dave have on
You mean you wear something OTHER than the fleet of Eli #10s you seem to have?!
It’s his wife’s pajama shirt?
She’d be wearing Rangers gear surely.
You know since Vin Scully has announced for NFL games(The Catch anyone?) you gonna make a comic about his retirement? I know he’s mainly know for his Baseball affiliations but still it’s Vin f’ing Scully the man could call drying paint and make it awesome.
It sounds strange, but I really like TNF. I like the presentation, the pre-game and post-game, the theme song. And we all know, the teams play differently. That’s why they say “Anything can happen on Thursday.”
I’m not an adult with a full-time high paying 9-5 job. I’m some little shit who works night shifts at a restaurant. I don’t work on Thursday, so I can stay up and watch the whole thing. It all reminds me of work, especially the post-game. When there isn’t anything to do and we’re all just kind of hanging around, not taking things too seriously. But that’s kind of how the game is, too.
There’s also the color rush, and the fact that we will see all 32 teams. On SNF and MNF, it’s regular uniforms and WAY too much NFC East. Who the hell wants to see the Cowboys and Bears? You mean two forgettable ass defenses plus fake T.O. (Dez)?
Not to mention, I work during Sunday afternoon, nights, and Monday nights. I just can’t resist spoilers, since nobody seems to care about people who DVR their teams’ games.
Thursday Night Football is for me.
There’s like three good color rush uniforms out there that weren’t already one of the team’s alternates. I’m not including the Browns’ color rush in that group, although it does demonstrate how much better the new uniform set would look without the drop shadow or that stupid wordmark on the pants.
Somebody forgot to draw a wedding ring…
I love the panel putting the blanket on the bed. You captured the motion perfectly.
Whenever the Seahawks play on Thursday, the following Sunday I always wake up excited to watch my team, and then the realization hits. It’s almost like a bye week, watching other teams play and knowing it’s still going to be another week until you get to see your team.
I usually go to Buffalo Wild Wings on Thursdays for their specials, so Thursday Night Football is pretty convenient.
It’s ok, the Texans forgot there was a game on Thursday
I really don’t like SNF. I am still at work at that time, so either I don’t watch any of it, or have to make lots of preparations to leave early.
Tune in for just the 4th quarter, then watch the highlights later. That’s what I do for NFL or NBA games that I don’t really want to see the whole game but would like to see the outcome as it happens.
How hard does Houston have to beat the Bungels or humiliate themselves on prime time TV to get media attention?
George Godsey needs to be fired, why he still has a job after 3 starting qbs and a consistant bottom-tier offense is entirely due to Romeo Cranell’s consistantly elite defense that get us 9 wins a season. Godsey’s playcalling was atrotious, A FUCKING DRAW PLAY ON 3RD AND 8? His shitty running schemes led to Brock trying to force another throw downfield due to the prior 2 run plays being stuffed at the LOS, which then got picked off.
And his running schemes aren’t creative in any way, its between the tackles EVERY DAMN TIME, NO MATTER HOW MANY MEN ARE IN THE BOX. The only 3 times Brockembe was allowed to call the fucking plays himself was the first drive (big 3rd down conversion ended in a drop) The first drive of the second half (Starting at our own 10, ended with a huge drop on 3rd and 7 that would have been a 20 yard completion) and the drive after that (which was taken away after 3rd and 3, when Godsey ran miller up the middle TWICE, being driven back on 3rd and 3 and 4th and 5)
How the fuck do you fumble the ball twice on special teams? That gave the pats the avarage starting field posistion of OUR OWN 48 YARD LINE and allowed 2 touchdowns. Talk shit about how the defense is overrated all you want, but when you can’t score a single point on offense and you have to defend starting at your own 17 TWICE, its pretty hard to generate any pressure.
It seemed BOB and Godsey were doing anything they could to lose this game, and lose they did, the only place I saw ANY resembelence of effort was in Brock, D-Hop, Ryan Griffin, and the Defense for about 3 quarters.
I guess BOB’s presense around his big daddy Bill forced him to shit his pants and light the whole team on fire, because that is what I saw in that game, the entire coaching staff should be on the hotseat after this atrocity of a game.
Well Eli is making the Tuesday comic. What a pick.
Dessert**