NFL 2024-25 Season

[Donoghus]

Pretty cool story about the loophole concerning tonight.

Andrew Brandt
@AndrewBrandt
With a Congressional law that prohibits the NFL from playing on Friday nights, how is the league able to play tonight (in Brazil, of all places)?  A thread....🧵

The 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act gave the NFL an antitrust exemption, allowing them to pool the media rights of all the teams collectively, to negotiate rights deals with the networks.  It is the reason all NFL games are national broadcasts.

In allowing this, Congress prohibited the NFL from airing ?all or a substantial part? of pro football games on Fridays after 6pm ET, in deference to high school football games around the country.

But the timing of the prohibition created a loophole that the NFL jumped through with tonight's game.  It prohibited Friday night NFL games "beginning with the second Friday of September of each year.?

With an early Labor Day this year, tonight is the first Friday of September, the first time this has coincided with the start of the NFL season since 2019.
Thus, the NFL is in the clear with the language of the law tonight.  It won't be able to do so over the next few years.

Finally, as for the Black Friday game, the NFL got around the prohibition there by starting the game at 3pmET.

The NFL is smarter than I thought, they probably hired lawyers in their team to find out all these loopholes to exploit and generate revenues like that.

I'm pretty sure an intern with comprehension of how a calendar works could've came up with this loophole.

I imagine the league has had this teed up for years.

[Phantom255x]

I'm going Packers 24-20 today

[Phantom255x]

Are the referees going to call a penalty every other play this season?? Jesus...

[SparzWizard]

High-scoring affair tonight. Just what the NFL wanted!

[Phantom255x]

Man I feel for Love and Packers fans. Brutal ending. Hope it's not as serious as it looks

[SparzWizard]

Bryce Young with the INT.

7-0 Saints

[Donoghus]

Panthers picking right up when they finished things last season.

Down 30-3 at the half.

[kraidstar]

Panthers picking right up when they finished things last season.

Down 30-3 at the half.

I watched some of their games last year. They're one of the worst teams I've seen in the three decades I've been following this sport.

Bryce isn't good enough to be in the CFL, let alone the NFL. And he's not the only problem,  either.

[SparzWizard]

Panthers picking right up when they finished things last season.

Down 30-3 at the half.

I watched some of their games last year. They're one of the worst teams I've seen in the three decades I've been following this sport.

Bryce isn't good enough to be in the CFL, let alone the NFL. And he's not the only problem,  either.

Don't know how he was chosen 1st in the NFL lol

[Phantom255x]

The Bills are really gonna need Josh Allen to go superhero mode all season long. He's done that the last 10 minutes of football to bring BUF back.

[kraidstar]

I'm going to repeat my assertion that Tua is a massive fraud. He can't read defenses. I'm still not that impressed with Trevor Lawrence either.

He's great when his guys can get wide open. Not so great otherwise.

Maybe it's my imagination, but it seems like QB play has declined in this league. There are lots of guys who can scramble and who have cannon arms. But they lack that next-tier football IQ.

[SparzWizard]

Dumb 4th and 1 call at ATL 6 for Steelers, go for it and failed to convert.

Should've just taken the 3 and be up by 8 points.

[Phantom255x]

Cardinals-Bills heading towards a great finish. 50 secs left, AZ down 6 and driving

[Phantom255x]

Cardinals-Bills heading towards a great finish. 50 secs left, AZ down 6 and driving

And then Kyler doesn't see MHJ for a go-ahead TD, then on 3rd down and long with 30 secs they decide to... run the ball?? Huh...

[Phantom255x]

This has already been an awesome Week 1 and there's still more to come