Posted on 05/17/2022 4:49:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SNIP
They asked the NFL to accommodate this request. The NFL did not. And so, as a result, the Giants play their only “Monday Night Football” game of the 2022 season on Sept. 26 at MetLife Stadium and any Jewish fans wishing to observe the High Holiday of Rosh Hashanah will not be able to attend that heated NFC East rivalry matchup.
“I am well aware of that and not happy about it,” John Mara, the Giants co-owner, told The Post on Tuesday. “I made my feelings known to the league as soon as I saw the schedule. We have always requested the league take the Jewish High Holy Days into consideration when formulating our schedule. Not sure why it happened this year.”
Each year, NFL teams put in requests to the league asking for certain accommodations as the schedule is assembled. If an East Coast team has two games on the West Coast, it might ask the league to put those games in back-to-back weeks. Teams (the Giants this year) can ask to not have their bye week immediately after returning home from an international game. Stadiums have concert dates to consider and tractor pulls to fill up their seats, prompting teams to ask the league to put them on the road a certain week. Sometimes the league grants these requests. Sometimes the league does not.
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Good catch!
John Mara should just do the right thing and give all the team’s Jewish players a paid day off.
yet this d-bag has no problem they are playing on Christmas Eve
However, "Americasportism" is its own religion.
How many games are played on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost, etc....??
The religious exemption ship has sailed LONG AGO for any faith.
If they stop playing on special holidays, they may as well pack it up. Nobody should get special treatment when they only play a short time every year. Suck it up and play football.
Is Christmas Eve a Judeo-Christian holiday?
It is a big Catholic holiday/celebration.
I agree.
Looking back to 2021, the Pope Gregory calendar was incorrect in its day of Rosh Hashanah.
So, they were incorrect with Yom Kippur
Maybe the issue is the reliance on a Pope’s calendar to set any holy day..
It seems to be unreliable, but that might be why Daniel predicted something out of the 4th Beast, Rome, would change times and law..
And the Mara’s are very much Catholic
Well, that’s odd. I’m cornfused then.
Well we’d go out on Saturday evenings to the drive-in on Route 41,
It was there that first suspected she was doing what she’d already done...
NYC has a high Jewish population.
NFL rarely plays on Christmas Day, but it has happened.
Some men are principled. Others aren’t.
Sandy Koufax, possibly the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball, refused to play in the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur.
Angelinos probably would have crucified Koufax except he pitched a shut-out in Game 7 and the Dodgers won anyway.
Koufax worked as a pitching coach for some time after retiring as a player and he always had his sports gear specially made without any logos because he wouldn’t trade his integrity for a paid endorsement.
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