Kick off times

[LondonBrown]

Forgetting (for a minute) that'd it be much better for me if the game kicked off at something like 7.30pm but why is such a time like 8.30 deemed reasonable for a Thursday night kick off time?

 

The game won't finish until midnight then there's travel home and people going to work tommorow etc.

[Mark O]

Forgetting (for a minute) that'd it be much better for me if the game kicked off at something like 7.30pm but why is such a time like 8.30 deemed reasonable for a Thursday night kick off time?

 

The game won't finish until midnight then there's travel home and people going to work tommorow etc.

 

I truly don't know. Only guess is that if they start it too early east coast time, no one on the west coast will be home from work in order to see the beginning.

[LondonBrown]

Was my original thought but they're putting a lot of (or seemingly) effort into the London team idea and yet all the primetime games are out of reach for the vast majority of NFL followers in europe

[Canton Dawg]

I truly don't know. Only guess is that if they start it too early east coast time, no one on the west coast will be home from work in order to see the beginning.

 

I believe that is the reasoning.

 

I don't understand why 2 teams in the eastern time zone can't get an earlier start.

 

If there was a west coast team involved, I could see the reasoning behind an 8:30 or 9:00 start.

 

I get up at 4:30 am, I certainly hope the Browns give me a reason to be sleep deprived tomorrow.

[LondonBrown]

It's so different to soccer over here, most of the crowd get very drunk and our transport finishes around midnight. Nobody would be able to get home !

[wargograw]

I always wondered how different it is living on the east coast where everything starts so late.