(01-18-2022 06:54 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(01-17-2022 03:26 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(01-17-2022 11:39 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(01-11-2022 03:07 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  Since my team didn't make it this year, I'll be rooting for the Bills in the AFC and the Cards in the NFC.

Not a big fan of the Monday night wild card game.

Neither am I. They could have just placed this game on Saturday.

Then you ought to hope few people watch, because if the Monday night game draws an audience as large as or larger than the Saturday games, the NFL will continue playing a wild card game on Monday.

I know its a TV driven metric, but this weekends slate did nothing IMO to justify delaying public executions beyond the weekend.

The NFL and Disney will probably stick with the Monday night wild card game for another year or two. They were probably hoping MNF would do as well as the Saturday games, which draw fewer viewers than Sunday games. But, the MNF audience was 15-20 percent lower than that of the Saturday games.
Rams-Cardinals on Monday had 23.0 million viewers, compared to 26.4 million for Patriots-Bills on Saturday night and 27.7 million for Raiders-Bengals on Saturday afternoon.