It’s not quite moving the Super Bowl to Saturday like some of us want, but it’s definitely a good start.
The NFL is preparing to potentially move some of its games to Saturdays if college football doesn’t resume next season because of COVID-19, according to a report from the New York Post.
As the league moves forward in building out its 2020 regular season schedule, they’re slotting games in a way that gives it the option of moving different games to Saturday if the league decides it makes sense.
Basically, they want to be able to take advantage of a potential television opening on Saturdays if college football won’t fill the gaps. And, according to the report, the league feels it’s in a much better position to do so.
“The college game has more uncontrollable variables than the NFL starting with the fact that the players aren’t true professionals. If students aren’t on campus in the fall, it is hard to see how football players could be asked to compete. Crowd attendance is also more important for the majority of college programs’ bottom lines than it is to the NFL.”
What the league is reportedly trying to do here makes a ton of sense. That’s a gap they’d unquestionably be able to fill and it’s not something they haven’t done before. They had a Saturday triple-header just last year.
But you can’t help but feel like this is putting the cart ahead of the horse quite a bit. There’s a strong chance the NCAA and college football might not be around this fall, but who’s to say it’ll be safe to play NFL games? We still don’t know.
Still, it makes more sense to go into it prepared for everything. This is just a part of that.
