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After outcry from the Jets and their Jewish fans, the NFL agreed to move the time of their September 27 game from 4:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. This way, fans will be able to get home before sundown and the start of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Some fans may be atoning for attending the September 20 afternoon game—which falls during Rosh Hashanah! The Giants are playing on the road during the two holidays, after the NFL agreed to Big Blue's request to avoid playing during Jewish holidays at home (the NY market has a lot of Jewish fans); the NFL, however, admitted it made a mistake scheduling the Jets to play at home even though the team requested otherwise. The 9/27 game time change means that the Jets' game against the Titans will be airing on TV against the Giants-Bucaneers game.
Jets Move Yom Kippur Game Up
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So, it's ok to play baseball on Easter. Football on Thanksgiving.... But, because of the HUGE and apparently quite powerful Jewish contingent of Jets fans, they can move games. What next? Scientology moves the Superbowl because the advertisements block signals from the planet Neuros?
Big difference: There's no religious law that could be interpreted as telling Christians they should not attend a sports event on Easter or Thanksgiving.
@jaycjay: You're 100% correct. Granted you missed my point completely in a rush to flame me with your indisputable logic, but none the less you're right.
@Dr Zippy: Again, you too are correct. Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday, it's a Federal one, you know the type where everyone "should" be off. I think the Feds sort of trump things like Easter, Christmas, etc... But again, you're right.
@Lawrence: Grow up. If you want to make this something it's not and insult me as well as your own intelligence, fine.
Look, anyone could organize enough people to get others to do anything. They're called lobbyists, and Unions. Last I heard the Jewish religion is neither. It's a religion, a very serious global religion. My girlfriend, Jewish, doesn't agree with this movement either. If you're telling me that there's a contingent of people this large as to move a national sports event so as not to conflict with religious observances, then exercise the same judgment for every other sporting event in the world. Move MLB playoff games on the west coast to a realistic time for the ENTIRE east coast to catch it before midnight. Move golf, bowling and tennis, off of Saturday and Sunday mornings to give the TV back to the kids that are home from school on weekends. My GOD, just because someone has an opinion about something, stop interjecting your useless and quite baseless comments to it because you feel like you're absolute! Think before you flame, the life you save may be your own someday.
Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday.
Your tinfoil helmet is on too tight. Jews can't use electricity on Yom Kippur.
Besides, look at the stats: There are like 3 million Jews in the NY metro area but they're disproportionally buying tickets to football games. Maybe if guys like you bought all the tickets instead, the Jets would reconsider playing on Lyndon LaRouche's birthday.
I'm awed at how fast this whole thing happened. If I had muscle enough to push the NFL around, I would be so happy.
NFL start times are pretty flexible anyway these days. The TV networks get to juggle them around. Many of the games don't even have a set time when the schedule is released. I haven't really looked at this season's schedule, but last year most of the Jets games in the last half of the season had the time as simply "TBA" when the schedule was first released.
here's hoping for overtime and plenty of traffic on Route 3
Ridiculous. Their religion is THEIR personal choice. I don't know who's more annoying these days, Catholics, Jews or Muslims.
Ridiculous. Their religion is THEIR personal choice. I don't know who's more annoying these days, Catholics, Jews or Muslims.
I think it's the Galun Fong.
Jews are so silly...thinking that their obsessive compulsive rituals actually mean something. Eat some bacon, stay out after sundown on a Friday night...guess what, the cosmos doesn't give a shit what you do.
(and Muslims, Catholics, Lutherans, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Mormons etc. etc. are just as stupid, so don't call me an anti-Semite)
Amen. Ahem, I mean. And instead of complaining, shouldn't these Jews just sell their tickets ... or, god forbid, give these tickets away to some kid dying of cancer.
The team (a business) made the call to not play during that time by the request of a large demographic of their fan base (source of revenue). A lot of Jews want to watch the game and want to respect their religion, even if it is pretty lame. Whatever. We can all still watch the game, and so can the Jews. Everyone wins, everyone is happy. On to more pressing issues!
people - you are missing an important point -
Who the hell is going to want to watch the Jets this year?