# Amazing Race Season Debut - Delays?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-debut-delays/597550>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 25, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-debut-delays/597550 "2011-09-25T14:08:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-debut-delays/597550/101 "2011-10-14T07:47:00Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> Because a network executive did not have the balls to stand up and say that the schedule is what it is. Now instead of having a few pissed-off viewers, they have a buttload of pissed-off viewers.

It sounds like you’re under the impression that more people watch TAR than the NFL, which is pretty funny. You have your amounts backward. Catering to the NFL while delaying TAR means now instead of having a buttload of pissed-off viewers, there are only a few.

And as already pointed out several times, it isn’t about the NFL at all, at least almost never. It’s about 60 Minutes. The NFL afternoon games almost **never** bleed into primetime. (I think they did once last season, the first time in years.)

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-season-debut-delays/597550/102 "2011-10-14T13:34:58Z")

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> [@JpnDude](#):
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> A few weeks old does not zombie make…right?
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> Just wanted to point out that I was raised just a few miles from the starting point of this year’s race, the Hsi Lai Temple, in Hacienda Heights. In fact, my folks still live there. I think that the closest point TAR has come to my hometown.
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> How to get to LAX? “Take the 60, to the 605.” …to the 105 (unheard)
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> YAY!

In the family season – if there had been a family season, of course, which there wasn’t because that would’ve been a travesty – they would have camped on the Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park, here in Philly – maybe 15 minutes from my house.

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