Whatever happened to Thursday night football?

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I recall not so long ago when Thursday nights were the appetizer for the upcoming college football weekend and Monday nights, as has been the case for decades, were for the NFL. Now it seems the NFL has taken over the Thursday night slot and has done so with games so unappealing that I'd rather watch baseball. Just curious if others feel the same way.

Tonight's slate for the NFL btw...Jets at Browns. :suicide:
 

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Definitely had better Thursday night games in the past. The old Big East used to provide some decent matchups before all those teams left.
 

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It was eating up the NFL's ratings. Sucks. 2 years ago it seemed like every Thursday there was a good college game on.
 

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I remember in the early 90's, we played Miss St. on a thursday night in Starkville and got our asses beat. Don't think we've played on thursday's night since.
 

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I remember in the early 90's, we played Miss St. on a thursday night in Starkville and got our asses beat. Don't think we've played on thursday's night since.

It's exactly why we stopped playing on Thursday night, Spurrier hated it, felt he didn't get a full week of prep in. So it was stopped for us. It's good for schools like USF, UCF, etc.. to get the national spot light, because on Saturdays it's about the P5.
 

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They get better later in the season.
UNC v Miami
TTech at TCU
Stanford at Arizona St
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I remember in the early 90's, we played Miss St. on a thursday night in Starkville and got our asses beat. Don't think we've played on thursday's night since.
And I remember as a student being at our first Thursday night game in 1990 when we demolished #4 Auburn at home 48-7... held them to like 20 rushing yards.
 

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IMO, 80% of NFL games are unwatchable. A lot of it is due to parity. It's hard to predict who's gonna be a good team in any given year. Personally, I'm not that much of an NFL fan. I have no interest in most teams. My friends say that I'm weird because I actually prefer to watch the preseason over the regular season.
Most importantly, the Thursday Night NFL product is crap. It's too taxing, physically, and it's too quick of a turnaround to get maximum engagement. Which usually leads to a watered down product.
 

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I bet we all remember the Thursday when Louisville beat the Noles around 2000. I remember that game b/c it was the unofficial start to the Noles “forgotten decade”.

This wasn’t when Louisville was relevant either.
 

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I bet we all remember the Thursday when Louisville beat the Noles around 2000. I remember that game b/c it was the unofficial start to the Noles “forgotten decade”.

This wasn’t when Louisville was relevant either.

For me it was FSU's first ACC loss, it was a Thursday night vs Virginia Nov 2nd 1995.
 

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I recall not so long ago when Thursday nights were the appetizer for the upcoming college football weekend and Monday nights, as has been the case for decades, were for the NFL. Now it seems the NFL has taken over the Thursday night slot and has done so with games so unappealing that I'd rather watch baseball. Just curious if others feel the same way.

Tonight's slate for the NFL btw...Jets at Browns. :suicide:

What happened is FSU decided it can lose games just as easy on Saturdays as it could on Thursday nights. Therefore a national stage for their embarrassment was no longer required.
 

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Definitely had better Thursday night games in the past. The old Big East used to provide some decent matchups before all those teams left.
yeah that was my first thought, the Big East dissolved.
 

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Side hat plays Tulsa on bspn tonight at 7:30

Callaway should be featured tonight vs Jets at 8:20
 

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Awesome game, but it was a Saturday night contest.

Awesome atmosphere that night in The Swamp, the first indication that we weren't going to be ****ed with by the SEC anymore under SOS. The Barber punt return made the crowd go nuts....funny thing is, #24 for Auburn missed the original chance at a tackle and ended up making the tackle downfield....

 

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It's exactly why we stopped playing on Thursday night, Spurrier hated it, felt he didn't get a full week of prep in. So it was stopped for us. It's good for schools like USF, UCF, etc.. to get the national spot light, because on Saturdays it's about the P5.

For some reason I had it in my head we gave a whooping to the cocks and a Thursday in the 90s. Went back and looked and sure enough they were all Saturday games.
 

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I don't know how much you'd have to pay me to watch a Temple football game. Or a Temple anything.
 

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