{"id":529500,"date":"2026-03-11T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529500\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:48:14","slug":"nfl-exploring-adding-thanksgiving-eve-game-as-soon-as-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529500\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL ‘exploring’ adding Thanksgiving Eve game \u2014 as soon as this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there\u2019s a dollar to be made, the NFL will pursue it.<\/p>\n

The league wants to take over your entire Thanksgiving week as it is \u201cexploring\u201d adding a game on Thanksgiving Eve as early as this year, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n

This would represent even more inventory for the NFL to sell to one of its broadcast partners, and it would be no surprise if they try to charge a nine-figure price for a game that, if played this year, would take place on Wednesday, Nov. 25.<\/p>\n

\"PackersPackers quarterback Jordan Love (10) celebrates his team\u2019s Thanksgiving win over the Lions with a turkey leg on Nov. 27, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Amazon reportedly pays the NFL $100 million to stream a standalone afternoon game on Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving, while Netflix reportedly pays $150 million per year to stream two games on Christmas, with that contract entering the final year of a three-year deal.<\/p>\n

The NFL will surely push for at least $100 million for a potential new standalone, primetime window as their games continue to draw massive viewership every year.<\/p>\n

While playing an NFL game on a Wednesday seems like a head-scratcher, it hasn\u2019t stopped the league before; Netflix\u2019s first NFL broadcasts on Christmas Day in 2024 \u2014 Chiefs vs. Steelers and Ravens vs. Texans \u2014 were on a Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"RogerRoger Goodell stands with the Lombardi Trophy after the Seahawks\u2019 Super Bowl LX win over the Patriots on Feb. 8, 2026. Sports Illustrated via Getty Ima<\/p>\n

To make the scheduling work, those four teams played the previous Saturday instead of Sunday in Week 16.<\/p>\n

The NFL already plays three games on Thanksgiving Day, so adding a Thanksgiving Eve game would mark three straight days of games with a one-day respite before a Sunday slate, followed by \u201cMonday Night Football.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there\u2019s a dollar to be made, the NFL will pursue it. The league wants to take over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1316,514,24178,82,6998,130653],"class_list":["post-529500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-netflix","tag-nfl","tag-roger-goodell","tag-sports","tag-sports-media","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}