Ravens-Texans Game Postponed

by Rexx on Sep 13, 2008 1:16 PM EDT Comment 5 comments

It was announced just after noon today that Reliant Stadium, home of the Houston Texans, had sustained significant damage to its roof due to Hurricane Ike, making it unfit to hold any event. Therefore, at this point, the Ravens-Texans game will not be played there on Monday night. The teams are still talking to the league looking for a suitable alternative.

Both teams have different Bye weeks, so that obvious alternative is out of the question. Perhaps they'll play in another Texas city, be it Dallas or San Antonio. I've heard that Atlanta is a possibility, and of course Ravens Stadium is available, but I doubt that'll happen.

More to follow in this posting as information comes available.

Update: It was announced by the NFL that the Ravens-Texans game will be held on Sunday, November 9th in Houston. This was originally the Ravens Bye week, and the schedules of the Texans as well as the Cincinnati Bengals were changed to accomadate the rescheduled game. Thus the Ravens Bye week becomes this weekend and they will play the rest of the season without a break. While this solves the issue, it certainly is not to the Ravens advantage to have their Bye week so early in the season.

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That's really unfortunate.

I see three potential options…

1) Neutral location. It’s undiplomatic to give the Ravens an extra home game, and inefficient. A neutral location is just as feasible, and is almost certainly the best option. It doesn’t disrupt schedules, and the net competitive loss is that Houston loses one home game and the Ravens upgrade an away game to a neutral game.

2) Tack on the game in January. This might be unpopular because it would disrupt playoff timing. But it’s the only way to eliminate the concerns for competitive disadvantage. All teams keep all home and away games.

3) Switch the schedule around so that the Ravens and Texans play during one of their bye weeks, effectively moving their bye week to this weekend. This is, in my opinion, the worst of the three options. For competitiveness, a bye week is way more important than a home game, so the Texans would be worse off competitively, even though they would maintain revenue. It increases risk of injuries to both sides of the field. The Ravens would get royally screwed because they wouldn’t stand to lose anything, and now they effectively lose a bye week (as in the beginning of the season, the bye week is meaningless. In addition, the Ravens had full practice last week). I’d be quite perturbed if this happens, because it’s the “something for nothing argument.” I also don’t think it’s going to happen, as New Orleans was going to play in Indianapolis last week, and San Diego has played at Arizona State before. Although it saves the Texans a home game, and the revenues thereof, it irrevocably hurts both teams competitiveness this season, and no sort of compensation would be made to the Ravens for that.

Hopefully the game will be played Monday.

by math_geek on Sep 13, 2008 3:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The Ravens have lost their bye week...

Commissioner Goodell is a piece of garbage.

by math_geek on Sep 13, 2008 6:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

dumb

now instead of 1 team he’s decided to screw with three teams schedules. this happened two years ago in New Orleans they should have learned from that. There was no plan setup for future situations.

by Ravensfan52 on Sep 14, 2008 10:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The change in Bye Week...

…helps us get healthy now, but we will pay later as we will now have to play 15 straight games in a row starting next week, while the rest of the league gets a rest at some point. This sucks, as the league should have made better plans, even if it meant playing in Baltimore or San Antonio.

Rexx

by Rexx on Sep 14, 2008 11:06 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs