Monday Night Football

This is a US phenomena and relates to US football (not the real game of soccer).

I am not sure how many years ago, but I am sure that someone will tell me, the US National Football League decided to move one of the Sunday games to Monday night as a “featured” game of the week. In reality, since having one game at a time when there weren’t other games it was hoped to draw a larger audience than any one single of the Sunday games. I don’t really think it had anything to do with improving fan ability to see an additional game; more likely the decision had to do with having an additional time slot to generate additional advertising revenue.

After all, the game is not about fans or teams; it is about making money for the franchise and the franchise owners. More TV time slots that don’t compete with other views of the same sport means more money.

I think I have already ranted multiple times over the past few years about the advertisements. There are your car ads, your insurance ads, and your fast food ads. The occasional public service announcement is tossed in to cover those slots which weren’t sold. Oh – I forgot! There are also phone ads (both the actual cell phones and the phone networks) and cable TV programming ads.

Tonight’s game was mostly remarkable for desultory playing, an incredible number of penalties, and more unsportsmanlike like calls than are wracked up in an average season. The Vikings were ok, the Bears were not.

My corner of the TV room/back room doesn’t face the TV. It doesn’t need to.  I can hear it, I can see it anyway. If I was a bit smarter, or thought of it when I was up, I could grab my headphones which are on the credenza under the TV and block the whole thing out.

But there is something worse than Monday night football.

This week there will also be Tuesday night football…

 

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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