TV3 - NFL Game Day

odyssey06

Apologies if it's been posted already, but just saw this in the TV3 listings for Thursday 1st November:

NFL Game Day (Sport)
This Sunday football roundup show will provide unlimited access to all the highlights, scores, interviews and analysis from the NFL games played over the weekend. Superstar ex-Cowboy Deion Sanders and ex-49er coach Steve Mariucci will join host Rich Eisen to give fans a thorough and insightful analysis of all the weekend's games from their high-tech LA-based studio. Viewers will be treated to post-game press conferences, interviews from the field and locker room, exclusive audio captured throughout the day, plus all the key highlights, as well as team and individual (fantasy) statistics.

Program runs from 2355 - 0035.

daveirl

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odyssey06

One to set the VCR\DVR for

Also, forgot to mention that there will be highlights of the Wembley regular season game on BBC2 this Sunday at 11pm.

dulpit

It's a start though from TV3...

NFL gameday is from the NFL Network, right?

tallaghtoutlaws

dulpit wrote: »

It's a start though from TV3...

NFL gameday is from the NFL Network, right?

Yup

Dodge

*cough*

dulpit

Dodge wrote: »

*cough*

So does that mean I can take credit for this? :D:D

Dodge

If you want, yeah.

The cough was merely highligting that some of us said it might happen and others said it will "never happen"

dulpit

Wonder if they'll try and show more stuff if there is an interest in this highlights programme? Possibly live games in the next few years?

Dodge

We'll see what kind of audience they get for the Superbowl

dulpit

Just watched it, it was odd, very dramatic or something, but there was no sign of any analysis from deion sanders, even though the about show thing on sky mentioned him and stuff...

It's on again next week, for half an hour... It's a full hour on the nfl network though, what's that all about ??

stevemac

NFL network is a Cable network in the US for all NFL. Sky show there shows as well, so if you have sky sports your getting nothing. Although sky have daily shows from them, have never seen the weekly one. NFL Total Access is what its called there. If you go to the NFL.com site, and look at the videos section you will see alot of the analysis split into smaller sections.

fatgav

when is it on?

dulpit

It's on Thursday night, this week it's on at 23:25...

Has anyone watched it other than the first week? Just wondering if they've any actual analysis or is it just the highlights with the weird announcer voice guy???

Drag00n79

By the way, it won't be broadcast on Thursday week (22nd) however it will be back the following Thursday but unfortunately even later (23.55).

Arthur Daley

Would this programme really attract new fans? If I was a new fan this show would be meaningless. To be honest TV3 and in particular Sky are doing a disservice with their highlights coverage and trying to do it on the cheap. They aren't offering the thing the wider audience want. That is a one hour highlights package each week showing the main action with commentary and a bit of analysis - along the lines of match of the day.

Gary Imlach and channel 4 were able to do this 10-15 years ago with the excellent 'blitz'. Now with more money and apparantly a drive by the the nfl to spread the popularity of the major league in europe, we end up with this effort. When you add in the demise of First Down sometimes I'm not sure if following the NFL has gone backwards or forwards in the last 20 years.

Dodge

Arthur Daley wrote: »

I'm not sure if following the NFL has gone backwards or forwards in the last 20 years.

Ah poor us. All we get is 4-6 life games a week with daily news shows on Sky News and weekly round ups on Sky and TV3.

Are you sure people would change that for a one hour weekly highlight show?

odyssey06

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Would this programme really attract new fans? If I was a new fan this show would be meaningless. To be honest TV3 and in particular Sky are doing a disservice with their highlights coverage and trying to do it on the cheap. They aren't offering the thing the wider audience want. That is a one hour highlights package each week showing the main action with commentary and a bit of analysis - along the lines of match of the day.

Gary Imlach and channel 4 were able to do this 10-15 years ago with the excellent 'blitz'. Now with more money and apparantly a drive by the the nfl to spread the popularity of the major league in europe, we end up with this effort. When you add in the demise of First Down sometimes I'm not sure if following the NFL has gone backwards or forwards in the last 20 years.

I was disappointed with the TV3 program. As you say, a highlights package should be a Match of the Day type approach, with context and tables and statistics. Watching Game Day is like watching a history documentary about a football team, it's assumed you're familiar with what has occured.
And I think in terms of attracting new people to the game, a 'blitz\MOTD' highlights package is the most effective mechanism.

NFL coverage is much better now as a whole than it was 20 years, as long as you are willing to fork out for Sky Sports. That's great for serious fans of the game, but it makes it harder for casual fans. So as a niche game it's doing very well, but the general profile of the game among the sporting public is lower than it was 20 years ago.