The NFL is synonymous with Thanksgiving and is now staking declare to Black Friday. 

The league is making plans to extend its agenda to incorporate a soccer sport at the Friday after Thanksgiving, beginning subsequent yr, in line with the Sports Business Journal.

Amazon Prime Video, the unique provider of “Thursday Night Football,” will reportedly pay upwards of $100 million to circulation the sport, John Ourand reported on Wednesday. 

A Black Friday soccer sport would additional the NFL’s dominance over Thanksgiving. Last yr, the Las Vegas Raiders-Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game attracted a median of 38.531 million viewers on CBS, the most-watched common season sport on any community since 1990. 

This season’s Turkey Day slate will function 3 video games broadcast through CBS, Fox and NBC. 

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Amazon can pay $1 billion a season to hold “Thursday Night Football” for 11 years. Amazon Prime Video will lift 15 common season and one preseason sport. They will likely be to be had on stations within the collaborating groups’ markets, which is identical follow when they’re on ESPN and NFL Network.

Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit will be the announcing team for the “Thursday Night Football” video games. Michaels strikes to Prime from NBC whilst Herbstreit will pull double responsibility. He will do NFL video games for Prime and stay ESPN’s lead school soccer analyst. 

Contributing: The Associated Press