{"id":517601,"date":"2026-03-11T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517601\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:08:07","slug":"nfl-to-explore-playing-a-game-on-wednesday-night-before-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517601\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL to explore playing a game on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL added a game on the day after Thanksgiving to the schedule in 2023 and they could add another game on the night before the holiday as well. <\/p>\n<p>Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the league is <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2031723390092890180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">exploring the addition<\/a> of a game on Wednesday night during Thanksgiving week and that it could be part of the 2026 schedule. <\/p>\n<p>The league will hold meetings at the end of March to discuss a number of issues related to the game and the prospect of this change to the schedule will likely be part of the agenda. <\/p>\n<p>If the game is added, the league would likely then turn to selling the broadcasting rights to another standalone game to a slate that they\u2019ve expanded many times in recent years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL added a game on the day after Thanksgiving to the schedule in 2023 and they could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-517601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}