{"id":646,"date":"2009-04-17T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T01:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-04-17T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T01:21:21","slug":"sports-scheduling-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/17\/sports-scheduling-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Scheduling Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being involved with sports scheduling (though not yet the National Football League), I sympathized the the schedulers, who missed an issue, from <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=4078103\">espn.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NFL has moved up the start time of the New York Jets&#8217; game against the Tennessee Titans on September 27 after the team complained to the league about having to play home games on consecutive Jewish holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The league made the change Friday, rescheduling the 4:15 start to 1 p.m. a day after Jets owner Woody Johnson sent a letter to commissioner Roger Goodell suggesting the switch to allow fans to arrive home before sundown on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets&#8217; home opener against New England is 1 p.m. on Sept. 20, which falls during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is stunning the number of issues a sports league needs to address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being involved with sports scheduling (though not yet the National Football League), I sympathized the the schedulers, who missed an issue, from espn.com: The NFL has moved up the start time of the New York Jets&#8217; game against the Tennessee Titans on September 27 after the team complained to the league about having to play &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/17\/sports-scheduling-woes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sports Scheduling Woes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}