NFL Matchup show may be no more... Noooo...

[Darth Biscuit]

Damn it... this is the best football show on TV.

We're sorry to pass along the news, via SI's Peter King, that the NFL has decided it won't seek sponsors for the NFL Matchup show, ending a 26-year partnership with the program.

The show isn't quite dead yet, though. ESPN could decide to own and operate the show itself to keep it on the air. We implore them to do so.

This news is sobering, but perhaps enough fan support can keep the show alive.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/17/nfl-matchup-show-may-be-no-more/

[Zcustom]

The ONE show with REAL football analysis, yikes.

It'd be nice to save, but it seems inevitable, majority of fans don't like to think.

[Darth Biscuit]

I never understood why it was only on early Sunday morning... damn, this will suck. All the other shows are just a bunch or morons sitting around bloviating.

I DVR'd it every Sunday and watched it at like 12 before the games come on.

[brandon_87]

damn, this was the only show outside of football that I watched

[Cap'n]

So breaking down actual gamefilm and providing exceptional knowledge to fans who other-wise wouldn't know the difference between cover 2 and cover 3 and lineman gap control gets cancelled, while Skip Bayless talking about if the Yankees losing was the "worst loss of an AL East team on the road against a divison rival in the month of may after a 4 game winning streak on a weekday" is still on for 4 hours? SMH

[Captroop]

I never heard of this show before today. Probably because it airs at 3:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning. How are you people awake [and in the case of the 3:00 a.m. show, read as "sober"] during those hours?

[Ncstatefan]

I never heard of this show before today. Probably because it airs at 3:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning. How are you people awake [and in the case of the 3:00 a.m. show, read as "sober"] during those hours?

You ever hear of something called a DVR?

[Captroop]

Yes, but I just got it a month ago. Not much help for the past season unless the device can travel through time.

And being able to record it doesn't help me if I don't know about it. All I'm saying is they do a pretty shitty job promoting it, and I wouldn't be surprised if no sponsors go after a show with that time slot.

[Darth Biscuit]

I see that I am not alone in my feelings for this show... there's plenty of yappity-yap shows on TV about the NFL, this is the only one with actual game and play analysis.

[Snake]

Its common knowledge that TV producers are morons themselves

The NFL is no exception.

[Snake]

Its common knowledge that TV producers are morons themselves

The NFL is no exception.

[Carl Spackler]

God, we just can't get away from Florio, can we?

[Nicbsbll2]

I never heard of this show before today. Probably because it airs at 3:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning. How are you people awake [and in the case of the 3:00 a.m. show, read as "sober"] during those hours?

Glad to know I'm not the only one that's never heard of this show...

[Johnny Rockets]

I think the show is way to technical for the average football fan which is what makes up the vast majority of NFL fans. Only a very small portion of fans strive to be couch Ron Jaworskis. There is a reason the show wasn't in a more featured time slot, the audience for such a show is very small.