There's something extremely comforting about watching a public push as hard as it can for the ability to watch football on every night of the week and for that market to be pursued by rights-holders attempting to turn such a dream into reality. There's something even more comforting about knowing that a good portion of all that football will be met with complaining and open disgust about the quality of the play—which may or may not be directly related to all the short weeks and incongruent scheduling.
It didn't take long for Thursday Night Football between the Raiders and Broncos to loudly announce itself as a real dud. The two teams battled to a 10-7 Denver victory in a game where offense was hard to find, penalties were aplenty and the whole ordeal was just generally uninspired.
