Chiefs News: Three games that deserved to be in primetime in 2020
CHIEFS AT BUCCANEERS – NOVEMBER 29TH (WEEK 12)
Alright, let me set the scene for you. It is the Sunday after Thanksgiving and perhaps you are eating a leftover turkey sandwich and then taking a nap or setting up Christmas decorations before Patrick Mahomes squares off against Tom Brady and the Bucs under the lights of primetime football.
Only you can’t because that game is in the middle of the freaking afternoon, in the 3:25 slot.
The last time these two quarterbacks met, Brady was a Patriot and the Chiefs defeated him and the Pats at home in Foxborough, but before that, it was on one of the biggest stages in Mahomes’ young career. Thanks to an offsides penalty, the Pats would go onto win the AFC championship and go onto win the Super Bowl as well.
The fact that the Chiefs traveled to New England and beat Brady in the next season is almost irrelevant in regards to settling the score so to speak. Since Brady is no longer a Patriot, that kind of opportunity may never present himself again, but the second best thing would be to travel to Brady’s new home and embarrass him in front of his new fans under the lights of primetime.
When I saw that this game had been relegated to mid afternoon, the only question I asked was “How can you not put this game in primetime?”, Brady and Rob Gronkowski in their new home, facing off against the current reigning Super Bowl champs and Mahomes, Travis Kelce (the best tight end in the league), how does that not just scream primetime?
These are two teams that both have an embarrassment of riches on the offensive side of the ball, sneaky good defenses, and are just oozing with talent, and it’s scheduled in the middle of the afternoon?
Not only do I think this should have been a primetime game, it even deserved a place on the Monday Night Football schedule, so there would be absolutely no other games on all day except for this clash of the titans. In my mind, a match-up such as this being chosen for anything less then primetime is just disrespectful.
The Sunday night game for week 12 is Bears VS Packers. This one makes a little more sense, given that it is a divisional matchup, but it is still an aging Aaron Rodgers against a Bears team that struggled mightily last season.
As for the Monday night game of Seahawks VS Eagles, anyone would agree (accept for Hawks and Eagles fans of course) that Mahomes VS Brady would be far more entertaining than that.