10 am complaining

Just a little complaint post about the Hawks 10 am start time this week. Playing at Cincy, the regular start time is of course the early game. And for some unknown reason, it would be too onerous to make it a late game, right? Except that this very week, AZ is playing at Detroit and they are the sole late game on Fox. Thanks NFL. Thanks a lot.

short week, 10 AM. Let's get our bitching in order.

Later this year I will be bitching about how most of the teams coming to the Clink do so off a bye. Fair warning.

Good point about the short week with travel.

The thing that irriates me is this, why do 80% of the games have to play early?

That leaves slim pickings for the afternoon games and a lot times I'll find something else to do because the selection sucks!

Why not split the games up some so that I don't have to get up early (Alaska Time) to see them, and by the time I'm awake, they have snoozers on. It's pointless! Give the fans more selection damnit!

Scottemojo":3bo6l9bk said:

short week, 10 AM. Let's get our bitching in order.

Later this year I will be bitching about how most of the teams coming to the Clink do so off a bye. Fair warning.

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We won't have to wait too long. Starts with Carolina.

I wonder if the players and organization mind playing early and getting back home Sunday evening?

Wouldn't a game with a Western/Pacific team get better ratings when a game is played at 1pm PT as opposed to 10am PT?

I've never understood this.

Scottemojo":1q167rlt said:

short week, 10 AM. Let's get our bitching in order.

Later this year I will be bitching about how most of the teams coming to the Clink do so off a bye. Fair warning.

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I found an article that has done research into the affect of a Bye weeks winning percentage. Teams coming off a bye win 52% of the games... Which isn't substantial enough to say it truly gives an advantage.

ivotuk":ghrk0tzf said:

The thing that irriates me is this, why do 80% of the games have to play early?

That leaves slim pickings for the afternoon games and a lot times I'll find something else to do because the selection sucks!

Why not split the games up some so that I don't have to get up early (Alaska Time) to see them, and by the time I'm awake, they have snoozers on. It's pointless! Give the fans more selection damnit!

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I've honestly thought about this too. I'm not in marketing, but I do work with a lot of people who are. So I have a general idea. I do understand the power of hotspots. Which are basically, short spans of extreme high ratings. You can charge the most for this time frame. By putting a high percentage of games, and predominantly east coast, you can heighten the viewer percentage.

Remember, only 2 networks show the NFL during Sunday games, with the exception of Sunday Night. They maximize revenue by getting the most eyes possible on the same ads at one time. The afternoon games are kept small, but marketable (Fox's Americas Game of the Week, yada yada), with West Coast teams, and High Profile Games.

The NFL could schedule all western teams at 1 PM when they play in the Eastern and Central time zones if they wanted a level playing field for teams on both coasts. They don't.

Oh see I thought it was a post about complaining by 10 am.

"Damn it, this coffee should be punishable by death. And did you see the Seahawks not lose while Marshawn was eating wings up in that box? Didn't he think that *I* wanted some of those wings? What a jerkmode...."

vin.couve12":1c4kofz3 said:

Oh see I thought it was a post about complaining by 10 am.

"Damn it, this coffee should be punishable by death. And did you see the Seahawks not lose while Marshawn was eating wings up in that box? Didn't he think that *I* wanted some of those wings? What a jerkmode...."

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Shit man, we're complaining on these boards long before 10 AM.

I hate 10 am games. If I ever move out east this will be the primary reason.

hawksfansinceday1":2edd1duo said:

vin.couve12":2edd1duo said:

Oh see I thought it was a post about complaining by 10 am.

"Damn it, this coffee should be punishable by death. And did you see the Seahawks not lose while Marshawn was eating wings up in that box? Didn't he think that *I* wanted some of those wings? What a jerkmode...."

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Shit man, we're complaining on these boards long before 10 AM.

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I was thinking the same thing, but I posted it anyway.

It's such a crock that the nfl hasn't fixed this known issue. But the second the cheatriots complain about back to back trips out west. WERE CHANGING THE RULES!

ringless":3kbkck69 said:

Scottemojo":3kbkck69 said:

short week, 10 AM. Let's get our bitching in order.

Later this year I will be bitching about how most of the teams coming to the Clink do so off a bye. Fair warning.

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I found an article that has done research into the affect of a Bye weeks winning percentage. Teams coming off a bye win 52% of the games... Which isn't substantial enough to say it truly gives an advantage.

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Stop trying to distract us with facts!

ivotuk":nuphw4c4 said:

The thing that irriates me is this, why do 80% of the games have to play early?

That leaves slim pickings for the afternoon games and a lot times I'll find something else to do because the selection sucks!

Why not split the games up some so that I don't have to get up early (Alaska Time) to see them, and by the time I'm awake, they have snoozers on. It's pointless! Give the fans more selection damnit!

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They have literally no way to project this in April.

The league tries to put marquee games on in the later time slot, but every year you see teams scheduled for these headline games be terrible and vice-versa.

Scottemojo":37nx21mj said:

short week, 10 AM. Let's get our bitching in order.

Later this year I will be bitching about how most of the teams coming to the Clink do so off a bye. Fair warning.

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I thought this was a bigger deal until I saw all the games are home games and one of the teams off a bye (Arizona) is off the same week as us.

I know that goes against the ever popular stance that the league hates us, but yeah.. not a big factor.

Hasselbeck":2olqg6kd said:

Scottemojo":2olqg6kd said:

short week, 10 AM. Let's get our bitching in order.

Later this year I will be bitching about how most of the teams coming to the Clink do so off a bye. Fair warning.

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I thought this was a bigger deal until I saw all the games are home games and one of the teams off a bye (Arizona) is off the same week as us.

I know that goes against the ever popular stance that the league hates us, but yeah.. not a big factor.

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To be honest, its probably not about hate, its about making our home games competitive. Trying to keep the ratings up, so they give the teams coming in the best chance possible.

We've had these body clock arguments around here for years. The game is a 1 pm east coast time so nobody can convince this world traveler about the 3 hour difference.
It's just another excuse. It s playing on the road that is difficult in every sport.