1. At last week’s NFL owners meeting, there was a proposal to add flex scheduling to Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime for Weeks 14 through 17. Sunday Night Football on NBC has long had flex scheduling late in the season, and this coming season Monday Night Football on ESPN will get flex scheduling for the first time.
It would seem a bit trickier to add flex to TNF, but the NFL is a TV business more than anything, and Amazon Prime clearly needs all the help it can get when it comes to building an audience, so there’s no easier way to help draw more eyeballs to the streaming service than by giving it meaningful games late in the season.
However, the proposal ended up getting tabled until May after it got only 22 of the 24 yes votes needed. There were eight no votes and two abstentions.
