Are you ready for 9:30 a.m. Eastern Kickoff?

[OrtonsPiercedTaint]

Lions-Falcons in London will kick off at 9:30 a.m. Eastern

Posted by Michael David Smith on December 4, 2013, 2:26 PM EST

ReutersThe NFL is trying something different with a 2014 game in London: An early kickoff.

The league announced today that the Lions-Falcons game on Sunday, October 26 will kick off at 1:30 p.m. UK time, which is 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. That’s believed to be the earliest kickoff in NFL history. (The other two London games in 2014 will kick off at the customary time of 1 p.m. Eastern.)

FOX will broadcast the game nationally as the lead-in to its normal 1 p.m. Eastern kickoffs. And, given that everything the NFL does draws big TV numbers, FOX can probably expect big numbers for this game, too — not as big as a typical Sunday afternoon game, but huge compared to what TV networks normally draw on Sunday mornings.

And that leads to an interesting question: If the NFL follows through with the talk of eventually moving eight games a year to London, will it have all eight of those games kick off at 9:30 a.m. Eastern, and then sell that package of eight games to a TV network? If so, the NFL may have just found another lucrative revenue stream. As if the league’s billionaire owners need it.


3 games in London in 2014 :banghead:

[Deberg_1990]

Yes, I am!
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[BigMeatballDave]

The league and the owners continue to shit on its fans by taking home games away.

[ChiefRocka]

California does this every Sunday, albeit a half hour later.

Bloody Mary's.

[OrtonsPiercedTaint]

8:30 kick off
12:00 kick off
3:30 kick off
7:30 kick off

That's alot of football

[ModSocks]

Stupid Goodell and his stupid London games.

[dlawilliams]

So a Lions fan in California will have to set their alarm for 6:30 AM to watch their team play... excellent

[Ace Gunner]

can't wait





























to sleep through it

[FD]

I hate the London games but I love the idea of morning football.

[KCUnited]

These are going to be like Thursday night games on barbiturates.

[BlackHelicopters]

Morning wood, now morning football.

[Fish]

Yeah, fuck that.....

[ChiefRocka]

So a Lions fan in California will have to set their alarm for 6:30 AM to watch their team play... excellent

They'll just party late Saturday .

[Clyde Frog]

So a Lions fan in California will have to set their alarm for 6:30 AM to watch their team play... excellent

When I lived in Hawaii I thought 630am wake up calls for games was rough....Lions fans in Hawai'i now get a 330am wake up call or a DVR'd game.

[007]

I hate the London games but I love the idea of morning football.

THIS

[hometeam]

fuck London.

[scho63]

Why doesn't Roger Goodell and the NFL just have ONE game per time slot beginning Thursday night and ending Monday night?

We could have 16 GAMES all on TV!!!

Football overdose

[gosampel]

So a Lions fan in California will have to set their alarm for 6:30 AM to watch their team play... excellent

That's nothing try watching games in Hawaii, lol I take Cali

[Eleazar]

I'm sure they make money hand over fist in London, so they aren't going to stop doing it.

It seems like Goodell wants a model where almost every game can be nationally televised. Thursday night, Sunday morning, afternoon, night, Monday night. Sometimes, early Monday night and late Monday night.

It wouldn't take but a few more slots to get there.

[sd4chiefs]

No way am I getting up a 6:30am to watch a football game.

[Deberg_1990]

I'm sure they make money hand over fist in London, so they aren't going to stop doing it.



That might be another reason the NFL likes London. We are sort of running out of US cities large enough+ enough money to be able to support an NFL franchise.

[Pepe Silvia]

Thursday Morning Football sounds like a great idea.

[Rain Man]

It would actually be kind of cool to have a 7:30 kickoff in Mountain Time. I'd get up, have a little juice, watch the game, and then have the whole day ahead of me to do other stuff.

[Frazod]

Fuck you, Goodell. 4321

[Dayze]

It would actually be kind of cool to have a 7:30 kickoff in Mountain Time. I'd get up, have a little juice, watch the game, and then have the whole day ahead of me to do other stuff.

I'd like a morning game as well.
be done 3 hours earlier with my day.

[Phobia]

How about I just pretend that game is only being played for 30 minutes of clock?

[dj56dt58]

I hope the Chiefs dont do this..I scare the shit out of my family yelling at football at noon the way it is..I'm sure they would love to be woke up that early because I'm yelling at Kendrick Lewis for being a dumb piece of shit at 8am

[wazu]

I'll barely have enough time to get drunk before kickoff.

[A Salt Weapon]

Damn, games already start at 9 am here. That should be about a 4:30 am start, I'll pass.

[chiefzilla1501]

That might be another reason the NFL likes London. We are sort of running out of US cities large enough+ enough money to be able to support an NFL franchise.

There are markets to support an NFL franchise, as long as you value the integrity of the game over making money.

Serious question... has Goodell done anything for the game that's improved it? What a fucking joke.

[Hobophobic]

I'll barely have enough time to get drunk before kickoff.

ButtChugg and you'll have time to spare. :-)

[Demonpenz]

That would cut into English Football.

[booger]

**** england