Thursday Night Football flex scheduled for another NFL owners vote this week
NFL owners this week (May 22-24) are scheduled for the second time in less than two months to vote on allowing games to be flexed between Sunday afternoons and Thursday nights, according to a person who has seen the agenda for the Spring League Meetings.
At the March annual owners meeting, a proposal to do so pushed by the league failed to win the necessary three-quarters vote of owners required to pass. It received 22 yes votes, two shy of the necessary 24 (eight owners voted no, and two abstained). The league’s push came after the first year of Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime, which saw a fall in ratings on the streamer by roughly on average 4 million viewers for each of the 15 contests compared to 2021.
That was partly due to the move to digital from linear, but also many of the games were poor matchups that drew criticism, and even mocking lines from at times Al Michaels, who provided commentary for the contests. Thus the push to provide flexing for TNF.
An NFL spokesman declined to comment on whether there is a vote scheduled, citing the need to let the owners discuss the matter next week before issuing a statement.
— The Athletic
When/if the owners approve, and you have purchased or are purchasing tickets to Packers games scheduled after October 9th (when flex scheduling goes into effect), know up front that you may very well have to change your airline and hotel accommodations 15 days before the game when it is moved from Sunday to Thursday night.
What Roger Goodell and Jeff Bezos want, Roger Goodell and Jeff Bezos get.
