The Daytona 500 concluded 2 months ago, the 2025 edition of the race will not be back for another 10. Yet the race has inadvertently been pushed into the discussion for a more odd reason, the Super Bowl. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell recently talked on the Pat McAfee Show about moving the Super Bowl to Presidents Day Weekend which would be a scheduling nightmare for NASCAR and the Daytona 500. Today we are gonna look at this possibility and why the Daytona 500 may have to move…
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How do you think NASCAR will schedule the Daytona 500 when/if this happens?
1 week later being on the same day as the Superbowl in the USA as a sport is suicide for a brand
@@quinnlay2150 If the NFL is still “The Taylor Swift Show” easy for me to pick the Daytona 500.
Prolly move the season a week back
I don’t know. I think Nascar would have to either push everything back or forward, but it’s just going to be a pain.
If this ever happens, put the 500 at the first week of February instead of a week after Presidents Day
Unfortunately that would then mean either Wild Cards or Week 18 would conflict with the 500
@@QueenVoodo0 what about the week before the Super Bowl?
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YTPro Bowl, I misread last year’s schedule. The first week of February would conflict with that.
@@QueenVoodo0 man this is gonna suck as a Daytona 500 fan
No one watches the pro bowl
Man I hate NFL/Taylor Swift Football league
Like I need more reason to strongly hate the NFL
Anything without cars isn’t entertaining
@@ThatOneCappybaraHockeys pretty awesome
I don’t like them either. Especially in recent years and I hated last year because of one person.
@@ThatOneCappybara Agree
They’ll figure it out.
Roger Goodell is gonna Goodell.
It is what it is.
The best solution I have is to move the entire schedule up two weeks. I know ending the season in Mid-November was bad ratings-wise but you can’t win against the NFL.
I remember it finished close to Thanksgiving about 2016.
Plus the day after Thanksgiving in 2001 for obvious reasons.
Considering the stakes for NFL are immense this year, I won’t be surprised if it happens during this 2025 season
Also needs more Saturday night races during nfl season
But then you have the races that have to be in certian weeks like The 600 or the Southern 500
It’s for things like this that i think “why can’t we all just be friends?” and then get depressed because i know thats never gonna happen
The NFL doesn’t respect the other sports leagues anymore. The NFL used to avoid having games compete against the World Series or the NBA’s Christmas Games, now they actively schedule games to go against them even if it means having games on non-traditional days.
Solution: host the Super Bowl on the grass infield at Daytona.
During the race
@@j.paulm.1575that would be crazy as hell
Or have the race at halftime @@j.paulm.1575
@@DYNAMONBURRITO minor injuries
I think NASCAR should invite Goodell to the 500, get him white girl wasted on jello shooters, lock him in a porta potty in the infield at the hottest point of the day, and then conveniently lose the key.
A big one that can contain all of the clowns that ‘run’ nascar also.
Simple fix…Daytona 500 reverts back to it’s NOON Eastern start time like it was when CBS aired the race, which generally would have the race end 2 1/2 hours before kickoff
That is if the race doesn’t pull a 2023 Daytona 500 and go for like 6 hours
Assuming of course it doesn’t rain that day. We saw the race get rained out before or couldn’t finish the race prior to halfway before the Super Bowl coverage starts especially when Fox has it.
That won’t help a damn thing. You still have it the day of the Super Bowl, and you’re not taking into account this thing Florida gets every other day. Rain. Your noon start time will do nothing.
@@kadenlemon495 it does not rain in florida before 1130am est
The Daytona 500 had been run on it’s scheduled day until the race where Juan Montoya hit the jet dtyer
I may be a Bills fan BUT I’m a NASCAR fan first, this pisses me off to no end but the NFL has bigger guns than we do it’s the sad truth
Go bills and go Blaney
@@adamstuart1045 Go Bills go Blaney. Speaking my language here!
I agree with you fully I’m a NASCAR fan first NFL second
I’m only a NASCAR FAN this makes me tolerate the NFL less and less. I occasionally tune into a NFL on when NASCAR isn’t on.
Bills Mafia
First Christmas they ruined for the NBA now “the great American” race is being ruined by the Shield
NASCAR is doing a really good job ruining itself
This is out of NASCAR’s control the NFL is doing this for the money only@@stevencramsie9172
Both the NFL team owners and the players’ union would have to agree to an 18-game season, so it takes a bit more than just a diktat from Goodell. I recall that the players’ union wasn’t thrilled about going to a 17-game season, and the current agreement runs through 2030 so extending the season can’t happen before then anyway.
Oh thank Jesus Christ hopefully we can get the sponsors and the teams in NASCAR who have deep pockets to help us.
Yeah, I was thinking about this. 17 games was an insane feat for the league to pull off, but 18 games is likely asking for too much. That could spell another lockout for the league which could be one of those season canceling type lockouts
with 18 games a year mfs are going to retire at 30
@@whalesequenceyeah but the players union is pushing for 2 bye weeks. The only way they likely get that is moving to 18 games.
Honestly the NFL should go back to 16 games. It will increase urgency. Plus it’s more balanced.
16 games also made things a nice even number. 17 is just cursed.
Nascar needs to go to a 24 race schedule. trim half the tracks with multiple dates and your season is done by September problem solved You save money by not traveling and don’t have to compete with the NFL…
@@americanbadass88but then people will call out NASCAR for being afraid of competing with other sports
Goodell sees dollar signs.
1 way to fix this is by advertising the hell out of the daytona 500 by 15 states.
I hope they make it a Monday night race and buy a SB ad advertising it
I don’t like how the NFL pushes around all the different sporting events around just cause there the big bad kid on the block. We should keep the Daytona 500 where it is to show that NASCAR is staying and won’t be pushed around by the NFL.
it’s not easy when you basically have a fraction of the audience… in a random game the NFL might have over 50% more audience than a nascar race
@@otaviofrn_adv Nascar is shooting themselves in the foot.
Nascar had to flip, flop an change rules. Nascar had to play with start times an the tracks. Not to mention they raised the dang prices. I used to go to Daytona 500 with my wife. Every year we had to almost relearn things an pay more for tickets. The whole stands changed over 5 years. Parking is also a headache.
Before my grandfather passed away he was unhappy with NASCAR, and he was a race car driver, and followed NASCAR for decades.
I try to watch the Daytona 500 on TV now.
But NFL should pick a different day
The NFL is the one who’s making it tough. All they want to do is phase out all other sports including car racing so they can have more viewers. Heck, I don’t remember if he said this in the video or if someone commented this, but they purposely pick days of other sports events to have NFL games. The amount of dominant power they have is insane that NASCAR would be asking for death if they asked NFL to move a game.
Bigger sport bullying a smaller sport, what a shock.
Coming from a European sportscar fan, I know what its like. The Spa 24 got kicked off its traditional date by F1 for 2023 (and the foreseeable future) of the last weekend of July to the end of June/early July, even though the Spa 24 started 26 years before F1 (granted it has missed 24 years, with the final one being in 1963).
Well, the Daytona 500 has been held on the last Sunday in February a couple times before. I’d be fine with having the season start a week later, if it allows for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, to both stay on FOX and stay on Memorial Day Weekend.
That is another tradition I have known my entire life as a NASCAR fan, and I think it should stay that way on the new media package for NASCAR that starts in 2025.
The Southern 500 was held on Labor Day Weekend when I was a kid starting to get into NASCAR. This was the early 2000’s when I was about 8, 9, or 10 years old, somewhere in that range. I was too young to fully appreciate what that tradition meant to the sport.
In 2015, when they brought it back to Labor Day Weekend, I was 22 years old, been out of school for a couple of years, and had been a committed NASCAR fan for a longtime up to that point, like I still am today.
I was super excited when Darlington returned to Labor Day.
As an adult I fully understand the importance and significance of what Darlington’s Southern 500 Labor Day Weekend date means to the history and tradition of NASCAR. I love this tradition. I love that is also starts the Playoffs. I don’t believe we ever need to touch that date again, despite what the NFL decides to do in the coming years.
I think a lot of people would agree that tradition is important to NASCAR. When I think tradition in NASCAR, I think Daytona, Talladega, Charlotte, Martinsville, Bristol, North Wilkesboro, Darlington, Atlanta, even Dover has a special place in my heart as a NASCAR fan now.
How about run the Daytona 500 a week early and then run the clash on Saturday night the week after right before the superbowl