From the “Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Have To” Department: The NFL is looking to add a game on Black Friday in 2023, per Sports Business Journal’s reporting. That’s … interesting, but I’m not sure I’m into it. Don’t get me wrong. I get why the league would target Black Friday as another date on the calendar to commandeer. But owning Thanksgiving with a triple-header and then tacking on a Friday game for funsies feels extra. And for no good reason. Are there really going to be six games worthy of being on primetime islands often enough to make the juice worth the squeeze? Amazon (which is set to stream the Black Friday game when it pops up) and the NFL must think so.
But we have 468 days to cross that bridge. So I won’t let it bug me too much.