Get ready now because if you had a moment in your life when you realized you have had enough of Michael Vick. Just wait. There will be a two week window of MEGAcoverage. NFL live will be on location with locker room coverage from Ed Werder. I say this to you now so you can brace yourself. I'm somewhat surprised over the lack of sportstalk about week 13 in the NFL.



Week 13 is when Michael Vick's Philadelphia Eagles travel back to face Vick's former team the Atlanta Falcons. It has Monday Night Football written all over it but it is set for Sunday December 6th 1pm. Maybe the NFL isn't exactly excited this game is on the schedule. Especially with the game being in Atlanta.

I'm not sure when ESPN's Monday Night Football's flex scheduling starts but you can guarantee they will be trying to add

  Comissioner Roger Goodell stopped into Detroit Lions camp Saturday and said he didn't think Detroit was in danger of losing the Thanksgiving game. He did say the league will not alter its blackout policy. Five Lions games were not broadcast on local television last season because tickets to those games did not sell out. They were the first blacked out Lions games since the team moved to Ford Field in 2002.

Blackouts are a big mistake.  The NFL misses a chance of putting its product on TV to an entire market with ad revenue.  Why would the NFL even consider this as an option.  No other sport does this.  The ad revenue alone would be worth it.  The same amount of people will go to the games anyway.  The better the team is the harder the tickets