British Father and Son React! Why are NFL Games Played on Sundays? It's Complicated

[@austinwaters1211]

We love our football, Friday nights are for high school football, Saturdays are for college. NFL gets all the rest

[@trumanmetcalf3405]

Except Tuesday or Wednesday

[@nsnick199]

Wednesday is for MACtion

[@trumanmetcalf3405]

@@nsnick199 hell ya baby

[@areguapiri]

We, the fans, in America have always accepted the fact that Friday nights are for high school football (Friday Night Lights!). Most cities even have a local high school football highlights show on tv, late on Friday nights. My brother was the city "Player of the Week" on our local high school football highlights show once in 1987. ...Saturdays are for college football. Sundays are for the NFL. ...We, the fans, have always accepted and appreciate this tradition.

[@shawnanderson6313]

Personally as a fan love the fact that majority of NFL games are played on Sunday. I have the day off from work and get all my household chores done on Saturday. It makes it holiday of 9 hours of straight football.

[@EricLovesthe80s]

they show a game on thanksgiving all the time . we eat first and than we relax watching the game

[@amycarcaterra8177]

it is different everywhere, where we go it costs $60 to park.

[@Tom-ch7ro]

Spot on comment about the money. Under the current TV deal the NFL pulls in 10 Billion dollars a year. Amazon pays 63 Million for each Thursday night game.

[@valerieburris607]

The NFL played on Saturday when College Football Season is over with!

[@chillvibes2176]

It literally says that in the video 😂

[@valerieburris607]

I know but I say it first before came out in the video.@@chillvibes2176

[@JoannDavi]

True. It wasn't for the fans, but for money. OTOH, a fan could go to the nearest high school game on a Friday night, the nearest college game on a Saturday and the nearest NFL game on a Sunday. No conflicts; you could go to all three.

[@chrisguardiano6143]

The only issue would be the cost of tickets especially when it comes to college & the NFL.

[@strawman6085]

As long as you don’t mind being single.

[@richardpardee5099]

The Red Zoneis from the NFL Network

[@JoannDavi]

Late October is crazy for American sports diehards. MLB is heading to the conclusion. Football is in the thick of things. NBA and NHL just started.

[@patrickgiesinger3697]

Fall is the best time of the year

[@MoeDavinci]

College Football in full swing, College Basketball starting up, and NASCAR’s Championship too. October is chaotic.

[@ColinBass-l8j]

College Basketball starts up soon too. Too many sports to consume at one time lol.

[@ryanleaf386]

The last two weeks of the season or so usually have a couple games on Saturdays also this year there is one game on black friday

[@csw3287]

Friday: High School Saturday: College Sunday: NFL

[@Sandman60077]

Sunday, Monday, and Thursday NFL. Then during the playoffs also Saturday.

[@BriBryBriBry]

Yes to both of yous

[@thomaszach43]

Friday night lights were the best man some good times 😅

[@pmarc86]

So, when there's a Game in London or Frankfurt, I literally watch Football from 8:00 a.m. until 10 at night. It's pretty awesome.

[@derekjones5023]

Daz is rights it’s all about money. It’s easier to see in American sports because they are top down and closed, where the owners are effectively a board, and the fans are always an afterthought because they don’t actively generate as much revenue.

[@SmokeyJoeWood173]

Don't do Fridays because of high school, can't do Saturday because of the NCAA unless Christmas falls on a Sunday (like this year, I believe.)

[@cjames4478]

Or the playoffs.

[@SmokeyJoeWood173]

@@cjames4478 Yeah, actually both the playoffs and Christmas are after the end of the NCAA season so there's no worries anymore. Should have explained that in my comment.

[@ThatCronus]

I love Sunday football. Its almost like a mini holiday every week. Get grocery shopping done early. Figure out what the football snacks are for the day. If there is a London game there is football from 9:30am - 11:00pm. If not 1pm -11:00pm. NFL Sundays are the best time of year.

[@treyb8219]

you guys should check out the nfl weekly micd up series you get the highlights and insight of the players pov🔥

[@smileyr]

8:12 I think at least here in America its not big of a deal because we end up getting 3 days straight of football. We get high school football on Friday and they are starting to be aired out on espn and high school teams are starting to fly across the country to play each other now. College football is Saturday and then Sunday we get the nfl. So for us, we really don't care we get three straight days of football so Im not complaining at least.

[@michaelb.3982]

It basically breaks down to High School Football on Friday's..College football on Saturday and NFL on Sunday...it's perfect !

[@hobbgreen4529]

red grange had a lot to do with the NFL becoming popular in its early days . the galloping ghost .

[@gracielynn9623]

This Sunday decision is a little bit because of the fans. Long before the NFL wanted to become a national power in the 1950s high school football have been played on Fridays and college football on Saturdays dating back to the 1870s. In order to get their games nationally televised the NFL had to Compromise with Congress to ensure that they would not interfere with high school or college football games. That would protect the fans and the development system of the sport.

[@cherylflam3250]

Aiden, $30 to see a game??? 2022 average price for NFL ticket was $235…this year average is $377.

[@MoeDavinci]

I just watched this video a couple days ago. Very informative

[@jckdnls9292]

Daz I would argue with you that making it Sundays, makes it easier for the fan, I can plan the next 4... 5 month knowing that there's a game that Sunday

[@cerberus2654]

He's got a point though. The NFL has always been about maximizing profits. Remember it was congress, not the NFL, that implemented those clauses in the bill.

[@jckdnls9292]

@@cerberus2654 yeah but it's those clauses that make it so that nothing can get in the way of watching football on Sunday.. So that I, THE FAN, don't have to worry about the game not being on a Sunday. Whter they did it on purpose or not, you gotta admit, the fan came out winning.

[@cerberus2654]

​meh... I don't really see the benefit you're trying to speak of, but alright 👍🏼......I was just saying, Daz makes a good point, that any decision the NFL makes is never with the fans' best interest at heart, since the fans are seen as nothing more than cash cows to be milked dry.

[@jckdnls9292]

@@cerberus2654 the benefit is, compared to the NBA, MLB NHL, where you're always wondering if there's a game a certain night and you have to check your schedule or can't make plans until u check ur schedule, but the nfl u know it's Sunday and that's it.

[@cerberus2654]

​@@jckdnls9292 no, I understood what you said, I just don't see the benefit of it...Just seems to me like a personal preference of yours and not some great gift from the NFL to its beloved fans.

[@jerrymeadows5059]

Football is complicated in the US. In many places, such as where I live in Cincinnati, high school football is up there with college and the pros in terms of popularity and it has an important place in the local culture, not just throughout the city, but also the whole state of Ohio. The next level, college football, throughout the US, is thought to be a better game than the pros in the minds of a lot of football fans and I myself like college football as much as the pros, mostly because by rule the teams are under constant change from year to year and yet there is more a sense of "the brotherhood" in college football that doesn't exist as much in the pros. The dedication of Friday nights to high school and Saturdays to college has gone unchanged all these years, because to us Americans, they are different games than the pros and we like the differences.

[@binxbolling]

I think you just inadvertently solved the mystery of why college football stadiums are often bigger than NFL stadiums -- more dependence on attendance money.

[@krayzy932]

Eh. Yes, but only because tv money wasn't an option. Fans had to attend the game if they wanted to watch their favorite team. Only one of the top 20 largest college stadiums was built in the era of television (and that is pushing it since tv's weren't still that popular in 1960). Most were built from 1910 to 1940. Newer college stadiums are either the size of NFL stadiums or smaller (because the school is smaller).

[@meowski617]

@@krayzy932Look at what happened this past summer with PAC-12 football. Couldn’t negotiate TV rights and now teams leaving for other conferences across the country completes changes the look of all of college sports. At this point, college football (and college basketball to a lesser extent) need to create their own “league” away from the traditional conferences structure because it’s messing with all of the other sports that those schools participate in which isn’t fair to those athletes.

[@riccorich]

The EFL and EPL need to adopt the NFL model IMO

[@riccorich]

HVe the EPL games on Sunday the EFL on Saturday and one offs on mondays

[@DHarvey95EQ]

Silly Aiden the NFL has been playing on Saturdays for a long time now

[@marcomac29]

In regards to thinking of the fan, I would say they were just trying to survive. Baseball was king back then and the NFL wasn't the massive powerhouse that it is today. NFL Sundays are like a holiday... but it happens every week. I love them all being on one day. Y'all should check out fantasy football.

[@kingscast6871]

This was dope I enjoyed that!

[@controlZchannel]

No money, no league. It costs money to operate.

[@TT_09]

7:11 Love your comment, but America is all about profit, not fans. Don’t get me started on Cable and Streaming, more ad revenue. there’s always the Thanksgiving games! everyone is home. I always felt bad for the players, literally eating cold turkey.

[@BriBryBriBry]

No no.. Saturdays and Sundays are both football days in the United States.. college football? 🏈 Obviously he forgot for a second, because they react to college all the time.

[@blakerh]

Now they are paying college football players. Some players are getting over a million dollars per year. I think it could cause some major problems in the future.

[@staceytroy]

In the US All Major sports have revenue sharing so small market teams can be competitive Does the EPL have revenue sharing

[@johnzubil2875]

Hey Aidan, $30 will buy you one beer. 😁

[@wckdaintgood]

Crazy how college football has been played since the 1870s but the first pro league was formed in 1920

[@Aidanmaxwell-nm3jr]

We Need some boxing or ufc content

[@kek3908]

LOL, it's not complicated. They are played on Sunday because Saturday is the Jewish sabbath, that's a FACT. It has nothing to do with high school football being played on Friday or college games on Saturday, NOTHING. I am old and know people who played in the 50's and 60's, and it is a well known fact among those players why the games were on Sunday.

[@cerberus2654]

Time for bed, grandpa...

[@kek3908]

@@cerberus2654 You are the first generation to believe women have a penis and men have a vagina.

[@cerberus2654]

​@@kek3908 now were talking about genatalia? Have you taken your meds today, grandpa?

[@kek3908]

@@cerberus2654 Get a refund on your public education poof.

[@cerberus2654]

​@@kek3908 what refund? Public education is free. Time for your prune juice granpa.

[@jaxonw1292]

I would highly recommended watching Thatsgoodsports’s weekly NFL power rankings they are great and he can be quite funny too

[@brianhixson5357]

College fb is soooooo much better its in nearly every county or city

[@AxelFoleyDetroitLions]

Wrexham

[@DavidCubie1]

react to nuggets vs lakers first nba game this season :)

[@cuzzo5666]

The nfl didnt become popular until they merged with the afl and the black players took over....this video is 🧢