Postponing the Chicago game?

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Originally Posted by SouperMeister

I don't buy that. The NFL moved the Giants - Saints game on short notice in the wake of Katrina. Roger Goodell's talk is cheap on doing right by the Skins after Taylor's death. The Skins have 2 games and a teammate's funeral in a 5 day stretch. Why not move the Thursday Bears game to Sunday, and replace the Thursday game with one that doesn't have playoff ramifications? Better still, move the NFL Network broadcast to Saturday night, which would probably draw more viewers than a Thursday game anyway. The NFL can make it happen IF they want to.

Moving and rescheduling are entirely different things. Besides that the Saints literally had no stadium to play in.

I know its hard on the Skins but I dont see why other teams and their fans (all with ticket and travel plans made) shoul be inconvenienced. Its easy to say they should do it and nobody will mind but tell that to the guy who took off work on Sun and is flying to a game he thinks is on Sun only to have it moved to Thurs. I doubt he'd be happy and would likely be po'd (see Canada skins post). The Skins have not talked about moving this game because they understand what is involved and quite frankly have a bit more class than to think everyone else should accomodate them.

The bottom line is this game wont be rescheduled.