Per the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961
the NFL was allowed to retain its antitrust exception status in exchange for never scheduling games that directly compete with HS regular season (aka Friday nights) and college regular season (aka Saturdays). The only time the NFL has broken this agreement and played a regular season game that conflicted with a HS or college regular season game is when bad weather forced the NFL to reschedule the game to an earlier date (safety reasons). The reason the NFL started scheduling Thursday night games is because it is not reserved for HS or college, so it is fair game.
There is no Congressional act that binds college football to certain dates, so college football has no sense of loyalty to HS football to reserve Fridays for "HS football only." Plus, there are some HS football games scheduled on Saturdays either because the football stadium doesn't have lights (i.e. John Handley) or because someone decided that Saturdays is the most convenient date to schedule HS football games. If HS football can infringe upon college football's sacred date, then I don't see why college football can't return the favor.
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In response to this post by BROman Hokie)
Posted: 01/27/2016 at 12:38PM