Why wednesday nfl

Since the game was originally scheduled to be broadcast Thursday night as part of NBC's Thanksgiving schedule, the network still holds the rights to the game. And although in an ideal scenario the network probably would've preferred the game to be aired in primetime, NBC was committed to airing the previously-scheduled "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" at 8 p.

ET on Wednesday. It's during this broadcast that the 88th Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting ceremony will be shown. The league opted to move the game up one day and it was played Wednesday, Sept. For the Ravens, the virus has hit them at some of their most important offensive positions.

The same goes for tight end Mark Andrews, who is a type 1 diabetic and one of Jackson's preferred targets. Running backs Mark Ingram and J. Dobbins are out after they did not travel with the team to Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Dobbins and Ingram have accounted for 1, of the Ravens' 1, rushing yards this season. This was the biggest oddity or maybe Denver having to play without a QB , but that, in the grand scheme of all things , is not all that odd at all. Think back to all the talk about moving this game back a month, or calling for forfeits, or complaining that it was a football atrocity the likes of which we have never seen and that no one would be compelled to watch.

It was actually pretty damn decent, all things considered. The parts that were the ugliest were born of some of the obvious roster limitations to the Ravens' offense, but it still came down to the final minutes and featured the quirks and unpredictability that have been hallmarks of this rivalry.

It wasn't a freak show at all in the end, and it fits in its own strange way into the fabric of the history these two teams are writing along with Charlie Batch winning a big game, and Ryan Mallett and Dennis Dixon nearly doing the same, all against the odds. We can debate the morality of playing any of these professional sports given the times we are living in, that I would never deny.

Yet all of them have been played, are being played or are about to be played again. For over a week, every shifting detail of this Ravens-Steelers game was the stuff of breaking news updates, bulletins and full scale alerts.

Each potential twist and turn was the focus of the sports media at any given moment though it was always going to be played as long as contract tracing indicated that ability; it was always just a matter of when. In the end, it was pushed back all of six days and ended up looking like a normal football game.

For all of their disadvantages, the Ravens came this close to beating the lone undefeated team and the Titans managed to crush the now Bills after having to return from their lengthy outbreak-hiatus and play under less-than-ideal circumstances earlier this season.

When viewed against the backdrop of the entire NBA moving to Orlando in the summer or baseball nearly not starting at all and playing just 60 games, or the Miami Marlins putting a busload of COVID-positive players on two-day bus trip from Philly to Florida, or the St. Louis Cardinals not playing for like half a month and then playing a ton of doubleheaders, was this past week in the NFL all that bizarre?

Given all of what we have seen go on in pro and college sports, to think that the biggest sport in all the land, with the most to lose in having to refund television contracts, would not be playing as well seems like a nonstarter. That's now how this works. That is not to say that it is fair; what's really fair in ? Every industry has been impacted by COVID, lifestyles have been altered and the way children are being educated has taken a turn none of us could have predicted.

Is it great that the Broncos played with a practice squad receiver at QB, the Steelers had their bye week jerked around and the Ravens didn't have anything close to the normal practice, conditioning and prep time to play this vital game? No, it's not. I get Robert Griffin III airing his concerns about the kind of muscle injuries that can come from playing a sport like this under less than ideal practice conditions. That frustration is understood. The Giants have not played a Wednesday game since defeated the then-Pittsburgh Pirates, on Oct.

It is really weird having an NFL game on a Wednesday. It just would have seemed more 'normal' if the game had been scheduled for Friday. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.

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