The NFL did not have enough support to approve a proposal for flex scheduling of Thursday Night Football games when it was taken to a vote on Tuesday, and will now reportedly try again in May, according to Sports Illustrated‘s Albert Breer.
The proposed rule from the league would provide the NFL the ability to flex late-season games from Sunday to Thursday with a 15-day notice for its Amazon streaming package.
“I don’t think we are putting Amazon over our players,” Goodell said on Tuesday. “We’ve always been going at data with respect to injuries and the impact on players. That drove our decisions throughout the first 12 or so years of Thursday Night Football and how it’s evolved. I think the data is very clear. It doesn’t show a higher injury rate. But we recognize shorter weeks. We went through this with COVID, too. We had to have a lot of flexibility. Those are obviously different circumstances, but we work very closely on that.
