Another consequence for Saints...

SaintsBro · 03-22-2012, 12:09 PM

We'll have to see how it plays out, but taking the Saints out of prime time would be impacting the profits of the networks and Tom Benson, both of whom are innocent, and there's a lot of money on the table there. I think the Saints will be scaled back from the maximum of five (which we've had for some years now) to maybe three or four prime time games, still pretty good.

And trust me -- people will be tuning in on Sunday and Monday nights to watch the "dirty Saints," for evidence of "cheating," and to rabidly criticize every tackle, hit, and play the defense makes on the internet and around the water cooler the next day. The entire nation will hate us, but that actually makes for really good television so the networks will want that. Even in their worst heyday of evilness, the Raiders were always a staple of Monday Night football and got high ratings.

I don't think we were realistically going to be on the Opening Night prime time game anyway, we've done it two years in a row now.

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SaintsBro Site Donor Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: in line with my ridiculous CLEAR PLASTIC BAG Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 3	We'll have to see how it plays out, but taking the Saints out of prime time would be impacting the profits of the networks and Tom Benson, both of whom are innocent, and there's a lot of money on the table there. I think the Saints will be scaled back from the maximum of five (which we've had for some years now) to maybe three or four prime time games, still pretty good. And trust me -- people will be tuning in on Sunday and Monday nights to watch the "dirty Saints," for evidence of "cheating," and to rabidly criticize every tackle, hit, and play the defense makes on the internet and around the water cooler the next day. The entire nation will hate us, but that actually makes for really good television so the networks will want that. Even in their worst heyday of evilness, the Raiders were always a staple of Monday Night football and got high ratings. I don't think we were realistically going to be on the Opening Night prime time game anyway, we've done it two years in a row now.