This is an old list from a show that was put together prior to last season, I've seen it before. I would assume the story was posted to coincide with a repeat airing of one of their
Top 10 shows sometime this past weekend.
The NFLN is still far preferable to any other television sports network (espn, fox) for NFL information (in spite of the presence of Marshall Faulk). However, I do believe they are mis-manged on multiple levels.
The programming could easily be upgraded with almost no additional cost.
Football Follies and
Cheerleader Playoffs are both on way too often.
Game of the Week is a great idea, replaying a forgotten game from a few years ago, but why replay the same game three times in one 24 hour period and twice just three hours apart? A random game that I don't recall the outcome could be a lot more interesting to watch than a Super Bowl or some other 'classic' game that has little intrigue becomes I already know how the story ends, but mix it up and don't show the same game over and over again.
An NFL season is twenty weeks long including the playoffs. How about, for example, in each of the twenty weeks leading up to either the pre-season or the regular season, replaying one or two of the key games from week one through week twenty? Perhaps on one or two of the other nights you could program something similar, a show with each of a given season's ten playoff games. To me that would make for better off-season programming than the current offering.
The fact that their are so few commercials tells me that the NFL is taking the same stance with advertisers as they are with cable companies, and pricing themselves too high. To me it would make more sense to price yourselves low - with both cable fees and ad rates - get a lot of consumers hooked on your product, and then gradually raise your prices. A smaller dollar amount times something equals a higher revenue and profit number than a larger dollar amount times nothing.
In case anybody was curious, here are links to the
NFL Network schedule and to a description of the
NFL Network shows.