There may be a vote coming, but that doesn’t guarantee Amazon will get flex scheduling for its Thursday Night Football package. Count NBC’s Peter King among the skeptics.
King wrote in his latest Football Morning in America column that he does not see enough NFL owners getting on board with allowing the league to move games to entirely different days of the week than they were previously scheduled for.
“We can all agree this seems insane,” he said. “Moving a game from 1 p.m. Sunday to 8:20 p.m. Sunday is inconvenient, to say the least, for the fans in attendance. Moving it three days earlier, as is on the agenda for a vote here, is a punch in the face to the fans who’ve planned trips to see games and either won’t be able to see a game played three days earlier or will have lives turned upside down in order to do so.”
Commissioner Roger Goodell is the driving force behind the proposal. King writes that he wants to take care of a new TV partner that struggled to keep up with the audiences other partners were delivering for the NFL last season.
The biggest pushback is coming from coaches. King writes that one he spoke with at the league meetings said that he and his colleagues “really hate it.” How that affects owners votes remains to be seen.
