(Oct. 20, 2005) -- The game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins, originally scheduled to be played in Miami on Sunday, Oct. 23, has been rescheduled for Friday, Oct. 21, with a scheduled kickoff of 7 p.m. ET in Miami.
REDEEMEDSKIN wrote:EDIT: I hain't seen RiC around these here parts, so I'll put mine here, and move them once the Hognostications thread is created:
I had been very busy working from early morning until late in the evening this week. I posted only the end of Hognostications Week 6. But the Hognostications Week 7 is open now:
Daniel Snyder has defined incompetence, failure and greed to true Washington Redskins fans for over a decade and a half. Stay away from football operations !!!
redskindave wrote:Awesome, An extra night of football, Thats always good
We are exactly stoaked to see a game on Friday night too. Of course we may not be home to watch it, but just in case we're home. It's nice to know it's there. lol
Whenever I start to get blue, I just breathe!
My favortie line from the Simpsons:
Flanders: "Looks like someone is having a pre-rapture party!"
Homer: "No Flanders, it's a meeting of gay witches for abortion , you wouldn't be interested!"
Chiefs-Dolphins game moved to Oct. 21 Click here to find out more!
(Oct. 20, 2005) -- The game between the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs was rescheduled to Friday night, Oct. 21, to beat Hurricane Wilma's arrival in Florida.
The game will begin at 7 p.m. ET instead of Sunday afternoon, which is about when Wilma is expected to hit Florida's southwestern coast.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said broadcast and television details were being worked out.
It's the third time since the start of the 2004 season that the Dolphins have rescheduled a home game because of a looming hurricane. Last year's home opener against Tennessee was played a day early because of Hurricane Ivan, and the Dolphins' Week 3 game with Pittsburgh was pushed back 7½ hours by Hurricane Jeanne.
Moving the game to this Friday night will enable emergency personnel and others in the South Florida community to focus on preparing for the approach of Hurricane Wilma.
CBS will televise the game live to the Miami and Kansas City primary and secondary markets, which are WFOR/Miami, WPEC/West Palm Beach and WINK/Ft. Myers in the Dolphins' area, and KCTV/Kansas City and WIBW/Topeka in the Chiefs' territory.
For customers of Sirius Satellite Radio, the game will be available live on Friday at 7 p.m. ET on Channel 121 for the Chiefs' radio broadcast and Channel 131 for the Dolphins' broadcast.
On NFL.com, fans can follow the GameCenter live on the scoreboard, or listen to the local radio broadcast of the game via the Field Pass subscription service. (Field Pass is available on a seven-day free trial basis for first-time subscribers.)
A tape-delayed telecast of the Dolphins-Chiefs game will be shown nationally on NFL Network on Sunday night, Oct. 23, at a time to be determined.
Too bad, I was looking forward to watching an 'extra' NFL game tonight.
The game will be televised by CBS affiliates in primary secondary markets in South Florida and Kansas City. But there will be no national telecast.
"We are not extending the telecast to more markets because we want to adhere as closely as possible to the spirit of our longstanding policy not to conflict with high school and college football during their seasons [which means Friday night and Saturday]," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.
I guess those of us that don't care too much for either high school or college football are out of luck. . .
REDEEMEDSKIN wrote:EDIT: I hain't seen RiC around these here parts, so I'll put mine here, and move them once the Hognostications thread is created:
I had been very busy working from early morning until late in the evening this week. I posted only the end of Hognostications Week 6. But the Hognostications Week 7 is open now:
An interesting article on an economics blog that I read:
Because of Hurricane Wilma, the National Football League has rescheduled Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins for Friday (tomorrow) night. The game will be televised on CBS affiliates in Miami and Kansas City, but there will be no national telecast. Instead, a tape of the game will be rebroadcast on the NFL’s cable network on Sunday.
Why would the NFL not want to televise a game nationally? League spokesman Greg Aiello told the press
We are not extending the telecast to more markets because we want to adhere as closely as possible to the spirit of our longstanding policy not to conflict with high school and college football during their seasons [which means Friday night and Saturday]
This explanation didn’t satisfy some folks, including Fox Sports Radio’s Steve Czaban:
What a slap in the face of tens of thousands of fans of both teams outside those markets. Kids who grew up in each locale and now live elsewhere. Businessmen who will be away from home. I’m not even talking about all of the “neutral” fans like ME, who would surely LOVE to watch that game.
I don’t think the NFL properly understands how it has a NATIONAL product, that is comprised of 32 different “flavors” and not the antiquated “local only” dynamic. I also don’t think they understand exactly how PRECIOUS every game is for fans.
We only get 16 of these every year. And sadly, sadly, the current season is almost halfway over. To hell with [NFL Commissioner Paul] Tagliabue, that overpaid over-glorified, check-casher. To hell with his minions too. Give us Lord Football.
But are Tagliabue and the NFL really that tone deaf? The truth is, the league is covering for the federal government, which effectively forbids the national telecasting of professional football on Friday nights and Saturdays. You might be surprised to learn that this blackout mandate is part of the antitrust laws—the “Magna Carta of free enterprise” itself.
If the antitrust laws applied to professional sports as they applied to other businesses, there would be no NFL as we know it today. For one thing, the league could not negotiate a national television contract, as that would constitute “collusion” on the part of individual clubs. For this reason, in 1961 Congress passed a statutory exemption to the Sherman Act that permitted professional sports leagues to negotiate television contracts.
But in 1966, Congress amended that exemption with respect to the NFL. By this time, the NFL had entered into a merger agreement with the American Football League. This merger would have violated the antitrust laws (the Super Bowl would therefore be “anti-competitive”), and so yet another exemption was needed. The National Collegiate Athletic Association was concerned, however, that the expanding professional league would move away from their traditional Sunday schedule to play games on Fridays or Saturdays, the traditional provinces of high school and college football. Indeed, by 1966 ABC had reportedly developed a proposal for “Friday Night Football” that would feature NFL teams.
Fortunately for the NCAA, a number of southern congressman were also concerned about the impact of the NFL on “amateur” football, so they attached an amendment that partially rolled back the 1961 broadcast exemption. That amendment, which remains law today, reads as follows:
Section 1293-Intercollegiate and interscholastic football contest limitations
The first sentence of section 1291 of this title shall not apply to any joint agreement described in such section which permits the telecasting of all or a substantial part of any professional football game on any Friday after six o'clock postmeridian or on any Saturday during the period beginning on the second Friday in September and ending on the second Saturday in December in any year from any telecasting station located within seventy-five miles of the game site of any intercollegiate or interscholastic football contest scheduled to be played on such a date if -
(1) such intercollegiate football contest is between institutions of higher learning both of which confer degrees upon students following completion of sufficient credit hours to equal a four-year course, or
(2) in the case of an interscholastic football contest, such contest is between secondary schools, both of which are accredited or certified under the laws of the State or States in which they are situated and offer courses continuing through the twelfth grade of the standard school curriculum, or the equivalent, and
(3) such intercollegiate or interscholastic football contest and such game site were announced through publication in a newspaper of general circulation prior to August 1 of such year as being regularly scheduled for such day and place.
(Section 1291 refers to the 1961 exemption law.)
So as of today, if the NFL telecasts a game on Friday night or Saturday within 75 miles of any high school or college game—even games that are not themselves televised—the league opens itself up to an antitrust lawsuit for “restraint of trade.” Presumably, the NFL obtained a waiver from every high school and college within 75 miles of Miami and Kansas City, but obtaining such consent nationally would be impractical.
It’s interesting that despite its economic success, the NFL has not shown the political leadership to stand up for itself and call for the repeal of this blatantly discriminatory law. Also, I would note that there is no restriction on when collegiate games may be televised, and accordingly, many schools now schedule games on days througout the week. Here in the Washington area tonight, for example, there is an ESPN game between Virginia Tech and Maryland.
