Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

[Woodman]

The NFL is starting a new schedule tradition in 2023 with the first "Black Friday" game that will be streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The game will be streamed for free as part of a Black Friday "deal" presented by Amazon, so fans don't have to subscribe to watch the contest between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets.

NFL playing first 'Black Friday' game- Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving? - CBSSports.com

[Woodman]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Why does the NFL have a "Black Friday" game in the first place? Money played a major factor, as Amazon missed an opportunity to broadcast a game on Thanksgiving in its $1 billion "Thursday Night Football" package. The NFL Thanksgiving Day games have separate rights in the league's television contracts, being contracted to CBS, Fox, and NBC -- so there was no share of the pie for Amazon.

Amazon created the idea of having a game on "Black Friday" to coincide with its biggest shopping day of the year. Prime Video ended up paying $100 million to the NFL to have an annual game on "Black Friday" starting in 2023, banking they'll make the money up with the numerous eyeballs tuning into the game (remember, a Prime Video subscription is not needed to watch Friday's game).

[sukie]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Have a subscription since I buy a ton from Amazon each month. I suspect this will be an annual event

[Woodman]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Have a subscription since I buy a ton from Amazon each month. I suspect this will be an annual event

The plan is to have a "Black Friday" game every year. Like when the Thanksgiving night game was added in 2006 to NFL Network, this is the start of a new tradition on Friday afternoons that will likely stick.

The last time the NFL played a game on a Friday that wasn't in December was when the Los Angeles Rams played the St. Louis Cardinals to open the season on Sept. 18, 1970 -- a game that started at 11 p.m. ET.

[Dr. Lecter]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Money

[cookie G]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Because they can. The decades old MNF business model still works.

[Historian]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

All NFC games today.

Yawn.

[Woodman]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

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[Forward_Lateral]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Having it at 3pm is absolutely ridiculous.

[Woodman]

Re: Why is there a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Having it at 3pm is absolutely ridiculous.

It is an odd time ..... but why 3 .....