The one thing I hate about the Rams game already... (1 Viewer)

[GrandAdmiral]

Is the damn 3:05PM kickoff time. Thanks, Rams (for nothing).

 

[RaginSaint93]

And we play at home….

 

[St. Geezy]

Is the damn 3:05PM kickoff time. Thanks, Rams (for nothing).

Yeah. League did them a huge favor there. Not really fair to be honest. Most teams get to benefit from the “west coast team traveling east to play at noon” thing.

Literally no reason exists for this to be a 3:00 slot game other than the league doing the Rams a favor while putting the screws to us. It’s not like this is some prime matchup or ever was. West coast teams traveling east to play in ho-hum games usually just have to take their medicine and play in the early slot, but not here.

 

[GeauxSainz]

Yuuuuuup.

 

[red]

Well the Chargers played on Monday night and they get a early eastern game against the Falcons, while the Rams played Sunday night and now get an late east coast game against our Saints>>>> HHHHMMMMMM

 

[saintmdterps]

I ******* hate the NFL.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

And we play at home….

Yep. Not looking forward to that drive.

 

[Madmarsha]

That just ain't right.

 

[whodatbe]

We were 2-0, while I was out of the country. So to prove it was me, I will miss this home game again to keep the streak alive. ( Taking the gf to Ren Fest anyways)

 

[Paul]

Additionally, I’m sure we’ll get to see the “no-call” replay a few times. Bastages.

 

[Saintscuffy]

Is the damn 3:05PM kickoff time. Thanks, Rams (for nothing).

which means 10 oclock pm or later for me

 

[Madmarsha]

Additionally, I’m sure we’ll get to see the “no-call” replay a few times. Bastages.

Oh, that's right. PTSD time.

 

[Nisey55]

Well that just figures

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

I'm fine with it. I get to sleep later.

 

[St. Geezy]

Yeah. League did them a huge favor there. Not really fair to be honest. Most teams get to benefit from the “west coast team traveling east to play at noon” thing.

Literally no reason exists for this to be a 3:00 slot game other than the league doing the Rams a favor while putting the screws to us. It’s not like this is some prime matchup or ever was. West coast teams traveling east to play in ho-hum games usually just have to take their medicine and play in the early slot, but not here.

For those that downvoted this post, here are a few factoids I just uncovered with about 10 minutes worth of research…

This will be the first game on the 2024 schedule in which a west coast team has traveled to the central or eastern time zone and the game has been put into the late afternoon slot.

In fact, the only other time this will occur in 2024 will be in week 16 when the 49ers travel to Miami, though the argument could be made that this would have been done for TV entertainment purposes, with what was expected to be two of the better teams in the league facing off for a possible Super Bowl preview, which clearly wouldn’t have been the case with our game.

This phenomenon only occurred once in all of 2023, in week 13 when the 49ers traveled to Philadelphia to play in what was a rematch of the 2022 NFC Championship Game, another obvious TV entertainment purpose move.

So I stand by my post…this is a low key, subtle, largely unnoticed screw job from the NFL. This just does not happen for games of this caliber.

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