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TNF has evolved from a Thanksgiving-to-end-of-season sprint (2006-2007), a half-season event (2008-2011) to the full fledged marathon that is has been since 2012.
There have been a lot of different things about Thursday Night Football (announcers, networks, the Color Rush uniform experiment of 2015-2016), but Thursday Night is now seemingly a football night along with Sunday and Monday.
While some have complained about teams not having enough time to recover from Sunday games and play on short weeks, but the numbers and ratings have held up to the point where it is now becoming almost as routine as NBA Thursday TNT games or Saturday Night Hockey in Canada.
Occasionally, you can pop a big number (DAL/MIN 2016, DAL/NO last year, GB/DAL 2007), but does it feel like the NFL is doing this for the sake of viewers/money/ratings over quality football or was this inevitable?
There have been a lot of different things about Thursday Night Football (announcers, networks, the Color Rush uniform experiment of 2015-2016), but Thursday Night is now seemingly a football night along with Sunday and Monday.
While some have complained about teams not having enough time to recover from Sunday games and play on short weeks, but the numbers and ratings have held up to the point where it is now becoming almost as routine as NBA Thursday TNT games or Saturday Night Hockey in Canada.
Occasionally, you can pop a big number (DAL/MIN 2016, DAL/NO last year, GB/DAL 2007), but does it feel like the NFL is doing this for the sake of viewers/money/ratings over quality football or was this inevitable?