Tonights game pits the 1-7 Panthers against the 2-7 Bears. I for one am incredibly excited because I believe TNF is about watching bad football.

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My favorite TNF game of all time was the WK 14 2013 game pitting an awful Texans squad against my own awful Jaguars. Jaguars would go on to win an incredibly ugly and penalty filled (22 of them) 27-20 with Matt Schaub, Case Keenum, Chad Henne, and MJD putting on a show for a national audience that probably went to bad that night with the same feeling as you would have after going minor league hockey game.

What are some other wonderfully awful TNF Matchups that we can remember?

  • Reasonable-HB678@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    A statically all-time worst quarterback play, by Andy Dalton of the Bengals, giving Browns fans everywhere false hope in the 2014 game which had to be around Halloween.

  • Ok_Championship3262@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Put him on the San Jose sharks broadcast instead tonight and if they win do the whole do you believe in miracles thing again

  • Sabres00@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I had to watch 20 years of bad Buffalo Bills football on a weekly basis, you guys can sit through one game.

  • jaycmc@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Bears are definitely better off winning this game and tanking the rest of the way.

  • DJ_Marxman@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m super into this match-up tonight. I want chaos. I want embarrassment. I want Al Michaels making fun of 2 moribund franchises with no hope and no future. 20 turnovers. Comical interceptions. Fumble pinball.

  • OkHawk2903@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s tough man I’ve been randomly getting recommended full broadcasts of 90s nfc Monday night football matchups on YouTube. Al is on some of them and is just great. I also think he’s the best Madden gameplay commentator we ever got. Tough that it ends this way

  • mm825@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m so sick of people bitching about primetime games as if the NFL can perfectly predict who will be fun to watch, or that games can magically be re-scheduled from Sunday to Thursday.

    If you actually like football, there will be entertainment in this game. Records don’t matter after kick off

  • UndeadVinDiesel@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    TNF would be vastly improved if all their games were division matchups. Won’t always get a close game, but I believe there at least will be more people invested in it.

  • LaphroaigianSlip81@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t know why the NFL doesn’t just schedule post season rematches for the first 3 TNF games. Of course they should try to schedule an entire season of good prime time games before hand. But they should Then have the ability to flex the remaining TNF games based on current season performance.

    Take last year for example. How many prime time games did the broncos have? Should have been flexed out of all of them as soon as it became apparent they were dumpster fires.

  • Kershiser22@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I love the NFL.

    I hate Thursday games. (I’m not even a huge fan of the Thanksgiving games, because I rarely get to watch them due to Holiday activities.)

    Part of what makes the NFL great is the “once per week” aspect. Then one last game on Monday to cap it off. Thursday games just ruin the flow. Not to mention the Thursday games put a bit of a wrench into fantasy football and office pool timelines.

    And then to cap it all off, by forcing (nearly?) all teams to play a Thursday game each year, by definition it puts too many bad teams in those matchups.