Daily News | Giants chairman John Mara was right: Flexing Thursday night NFL games is madness
So John Mara, the president and principal owner of the New York Giants, did something the other day that, in the world of the NFL and its warped system of priorities and values, qualified as an act of true bravery. He dared to speak his mind, and speak the truth, about a league proposal to flex games from Sundays to Thursdays: It was a cheap way to try to boostfor those midweek games on Amazon. It would put players at greater risk of injury.
“I just object to the entire thing. I understand TV ratings are important, and it was a challenge towards the end of the year last year, but there have got to be better solutions than this. People make plans to go to these games weeks and months in advance, and to say 15 days ahead of time, ‘Sorry, folks. That game you were planning on taking your kids to on Sunday at 1 o’clock is now going to be Thursday night.
Such, apparently, is the price that must be paid when the NFL is in the midst of such a crisis. Ratings forsagged slightly from 2021 to 2022, and for all the league’s overtures to London and Mexico and other areas of the globe, the rest of the world just doesn’t seem as enamored of American football as Americans are.
Seth Joyner was about as he-man-minded and marauding a football player as there was over his 13-year NFL career as a linebacker for the Eagles and three other teams. He has retained that mentality in analyzing the league for FS1, NBC Sports Philadelphia, and Jakib Sports Media. If you’ve heard his perspective, you know how old-school and primal it is: Teams should blitz more. Teams should run the ball more. Football is brutal. Embrace the brutality.
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