There will be 4 games during the day next yr

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/04/lions-falcons-in-london-will-kick-off-at-930-a-m-eastern/

 

 

Lions-Falcons in London will kick off at 9:30 a.m. Eastern

The NFL is trying something different with a 2014 game in London: An early kickoff.

The league announced today that the Lions-Falcons game on Sunday, October 26 will kick off at 1:30 p.m. UK time, which is 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. That’s believed to be the earliest kickoff in NFL history. (The other two London games in 2014 will kick off at the customary time of 1 p.m. Eastern.)

FOX will broadcast the game nationally as the lead-in to its normal 1 p.m. Eastern kickoffs. And, given that everything the NFL does draws big TV numbers, FOX can probably expect big numbers for this game, too — not as big as a typical Sunday afternoon game, but huge compared to what TV networks normally draw on Sunday mornings.

And that leads to an interesting question: If the NFL follows through with the talk of eventually moving eight games a year to London, will it have all eight of those games kick off at 9:30 a.m. Eastern, and then sell that package of eight games to a TV network? If so, the NFL may have just found another lucrative revenue stream. As if the league’s billionaire owners need it.

 

 

[ForceEight]

I love it. It's just a shame that I don't care nearly enough about either of those teams to make it a point to be up at that time. But if it were a game I cared about, I would be pumped for this.

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Something to watch in the tailgating lot.