NBC had initially hired former Monday Night Football play-by-play man Mike Tirico for Thursdays before the league nixed the idea of any separate broadcast teams for Sunday and Thursday nights. The brightest stars, the biggest games, and the fiercest rivalries. The Los Angeles Rams will host the New England Patriots in Week 14 for "Thursday Night Football." Both Fox and Fox Sports 1 were named as potential outlets for the package in the Fox Sports bid, which was intended to showcase Fox's continued commitment to sports after the sale of its entertainment businesses to ESPN's majority-owner The Walt Disney Company (which excluded the Fox network itself and Fox Sports' national operations, such as FS1, among other assets). [89][90], During the 2016 season, current and former players including Richard Sherman,[91] J. J. Watt,[92] and Charles Woodson [93] expressed their dislikes for Thursday Night Football, with Richard Sherman calling it a "poopfest". • †St. Professional coverage of NFL games Thursdays night during the season. Standings are current as of Week 12 of the 2020 NFL season. Since most high school and college seasons have ended by mid-December, other than bowl games, there has been little desire to close this loophole, even though the regular season has expanded well beyond mid-December since the law's passage. Gumbel left the network after the 2007 season and his then-HBO colleague Bob Papa, who is also the radio voice of the New York Giants, was brought in to replace him. History Of Thursday Night Football. 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[51][52] A new insert graphics package was produced by Drive Studio, inspired by Times Square to reflect its New York City-based studio programming (unlike previous TNF broadcasters, Fox utilizes the same in-game presentation and graphics as it does during all other NFL broadcasts). [1] Because Prime Video is a subscription service, the NFL will require Amazon to have the games syndicated to over-the-air television stations in the local market of the teams.[2]. The Fox network will air 11 games per season in simulcast with NFL Network, and will also produce the games exclusive only to NFL Network and their syndicated partners in the markets of each team. It was also reported that ESPN and Turner Sports were not interested in the package due to its short-term nature, and that Fox was attempting to outbid CBS. For that reason, the Ravens had to postpone their Thanksgiving game against the Steelers three times, the first time was originally postponed to the Sunday after Thanksgiving in the afternoon, then postponed a second time to the following Tuesday night, then postponed again to the following Wednesday in the afternoon. We guide you through the NFL Thrusday Sesaon 2020 so you can enjoy football the way it suppose to be! The network kept the 4-man booth for the 2019 London Games. [57], On April 29, 2020, Amazon renewed its digital rights through the 2022 season, maintaining the TNF simulcasts and digital content, and also adding exclusive international rights to one late-season game per-season outside of the package (which will be produced by CBS). ET from 2006–2013). Date: Thursday, November 5th; NFL Thursday Night Football Start Time, Week 9: 8:20 PM ET; Channel: NFL Network and FOX; Packers vs. 49ers NFL Game Tonight | Gametime Weather Report The weather should be good for this game as the temperature is expected to be in the high-60s … [13][15], With the move of selected games to CBS, media executives expected more major match-ups to appear on Thursday Night Football than in previous years in order to attract better viewership; in the past, Thursday Night Football had been criticized for often featuring games between lesser and poorer-performing teams. "[27][28] On April 5, 2016, it was revealed that Twitter had acquired non-exclusive worldwide digital streaming rights to the 10 broadcast television TNF games. [77] Until 2018, Boomer Esiason, the Monday Night Football analyst for Westwood One, has been a regular substitute if Boselli was unavailable due to other commitments (in some cases, Esiason would call the Thursday night game if he is unavailable for the previous/next Monday night game and/or if the Thursday game is in close proximity to his New York home). To avoid such a problem with the potential sixteenth victory for the Patriots, CBS and NBC bought broadcast rights to the game so it could be seen by a nationwide audience on both cable and broadcast television. CBS was the first rightsholder under this model, airing nine games on broadcast television, and producing the remainder of the package to air exclusively on NFL Network to satisfy its carriage agreements. "Thursday Night Football" tonight features a matchup of NFC West rivals. [78], Thursday Night Football games on NFL Network are among the lowest-rated nationally televised NFL broadcasts. [75] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the pre-game show was moved to Los Angeles with Curt Menefee serving as main host, but with Strahan and Glazer making remote appearances.[76]. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated. Tirico and Warner were joined by Schrager on the sidelines. [53], For 2019, Fox announced that it would produce all of its games in 1080p upscaled to 4K, with Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) high-dynamic range color, beginning with its season premiere September 26, 2019. [71], The game is usually preceded by a pre-game show; CBS games were preceded by Thursday Night Kickoff, hosted by James Brown, Bill Cowher, and Deion Sanders. [16][17] In an analysis by Sports on Earth writer Aaron Roberts, it was determined that most Thursday games were of average or above-average quality in comparison to normal, non-prime time games, but that this was "by design" due to the leverage of other NFL broadcasters on how games are scheduled throughout the season (which traditionally prioritizes "major" games for either late-afternoon or Sunday and Monday nights). This table shows the National Football League teams' all-time standings for games played on Thursday Night Football. On April 4, 2017, it was announced that Amazon.com had acquired non-exclusive streaming rights to the 10 broadcast television games for the 2017 season over their Amazon Prime Video service, under a deal valued at $50 million, a five-fold increase over the $10 million paid by Twitter. 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A cappella group Pentatonix recorded a reworked version of their song "Sing" ("Weekend Go") to serve as the opening theme song for NBC's Thursday Night Football telecasts;[33][34] NBC also commissioned new instrumental theme music by Jimmy Greco, "Can't Hold Us Down", which was performed by members of the orchestra from the Broadway musical Hamilton. NFL Network replaced him with Matt Millen, who returned to broadcasting in 2009, and then added former ESPN analyst Joe Theismann for 2010. For 2018 and 2019, NFL Network borrowed Mike Tirico from former TNF holder NBC to serve as play-by-play for the network's Saturday games (Browns-Broncos and Ravens-Chargers in 2018, and Bills-Patriots in 2019), and reunited him with Warner on color commentary. The initial NFL Network team consisted of HBO Sports' Bryant Gumbel as play-by-play announcer, NBC Sports' Cris Collinsworth as the color commentator for the Thursday telecasts, and Dick Vermeil replacing Collinsworth for Saturday telecasts. Critics have argued that the games televised on Thursday Night Football have been of lower quality than other prime time games, as they often featured match-ups between lesser or poor-performing teams, and that the shortened rest between games triggered by Thursday games also has an effect on their overall quality. [citation needed]. Thursday Night Football odds, line: Colts vs. Titans picks, predictions from top NFL expert on 28-15 roll R.J. White has his finger on the pulse of Philip Rivers and the Colts There is an exception depending on when Christmas is in a given year. [61] On May 31, 2017, it was announced that Mike Tirico would replace Al Michaels full-time for NBC's Thursday Night Football games. This "Thursday Night Football" game features two of the NFL's most exciting quarterback-receiver tandems. For 2018, none of Fox's scheduled MLB playoff broadcasts landed on a Thursday (Fox carried the NLCS and the World Series that year), so Buck continued to broadcast both sports, crisscrossing the country in seven cities over a 22-day period. [29], Rogers Media, who owns television rights to the Thursday Night Football package in Canada through the end of the 2016 season but has not yet acquired digital rights (the majority of the NFL's media rights in Canada are owned by Rogers's rival, Bell Media), successfully forced Twitter to block the game streams in that country, overriding the league's insistence that the free stream be global. [86] Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks has also voiced displeasure about Thursday night games reducing prep time, and wrote a 2016 editorial for The Players' Tribune about the games. ", "2014 NFL Thursday Night Football schedule", "CBS announces changes to TNF coverage in wake of Ray Rice saga", "The Ray-Riceless Ravens are playing Pittsburgh tonight. In 2020 the consumer values options, and being able to stream Thursday Night Football beyond the traditional means of a cable TV channel, and TNF is a great facilitator of that. [65] However, the network confirmed via press release that Romo's duties would include Sunday and Thursday games. [15] This resulted in some controversy among viewers and the producers of syndicated programming in the locally programmed timeslot before network primetime, where the pre-game affects programs such as Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! Since 2012, the TNF package has begun during the second week of the NFL season; the NFL Kickoff Game and the NFL on Thanksgiving are both broadcast as part of NBC Sports' Sunday Night Football contract and are not included in Thursday Night Football, although the Thanksgiving primetime game was previously part of the package from 2006 until 2011. Numerous complications needed to be resolved, namely Romo's reluctance to cover both Sunday and Thursday nights as required under the Thursday Night Football contract,[64] and the fact that Simms remains under contract with CBS through the next several years. The streams were exclusive to paid Prime subscribers. The November 16, 2017 telecast between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans was the first NFL broadcast to intentionally use the Skycam as its primary camera angle, as opposed to the usual sideline camera that has been used since telecasts of NFL games began in 1939. The unfurling of the Super … In 2004, the NFL began awarding the first game hosting duties to the Super Bowl winner. Incidentally, the only reason the league is even allowed to televise football games on Saturday night stems from a legal loophole: the league's antitrust exemption, the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, was written when the NFL regular season ended in mid-December, and as such, it contains specific language that prohibits televising NFL games in most markets on Friday nights and all day on Saturdays between the second week of September and the second week of December, to protect high school and college football. Thursday Night Football (often abbreviated as TNF, branded as Thursday Night Football presented by Bud Light Platinum for sponsorship reasons) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that broadcast primarily on Thursday nights. He was joined by NFL Network draft analyst and NBC Notre Dame color man Mike Mayock, and the pairing spent three seasons calling games. The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. In January 2014, it was reported that the NFL was planning to sub-license a package of up to eight Thursday Night Football games to another broadcaster for the 2014 NFL season. Thursday Night Football not available for streaming on Sling, PS Vue", "Pentatonix to Sing NFL Thursday Night Football Opening Song", "NBC gearing up to produce 'Thursday Night Football, "FIRST LISTEN: Hamilton Orchestra Performs Thursday Night Football Theme Music", "Amazon will stream 'Thursday Night Football' in 2017. 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The first eight games of the season were simulcast nationally on NFL Network and CBS; the remaining games in the package only aired nationally on NFL Network, but per league broadcast policies, were simulcast on local stations in the participating teams' markets. This ended up causing another controversy, however, as the move by the networks infringed on the exclusivity that would normally have been enjoyed by WWOR-TV in New York City and WCVB-TV in Boston, which were the Giants' and Patriots' respective local over-the-air broadcasters for cable-televised games (the game aired on these stations, as well as on WCBS-TV, WNBC, WBZ-TV and WHDH in the teams' market areas). Back in 2002, the NFL scheduled a Thursday night opening kick-off game after labor day leading into the full slate of games on Sunday. Menefee and Mariucci were both dropped from Saturday coverage in 2019, as they was replaced by Eisen and Joe Thomas for Texans-Buccaneers, the early game of the tripleheader in 2019, while Fox's B-Team of Kevin Burkhardt, Charles Davis, and Pam Oliver called Rams-49ers, the third game of the 2019 Saturday tripleheader. This marquee game set the tone for the rest of the TNF games in 2020 and gave most fans their first look at rookie QB Joe Burrow. Starting in 2023, Amazon will be the only place to watch the NFL's Thursday Night Football games nationally. Westwood One provides national radio broadcasts of the Thursday Night Football games through a contract of currently unknown length (Westwood One quietly renewed the rights after parent company Cumulus Media departed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy). Upon the original launch of the Thursday and Saturday night games, few television service providers carried the NFL Network due to disputes during the network's terms in its carriage contracts during negotiations. [16][17] On October 6, 2014, Arian Foster, then of the Houston Texans, made a statement considering it hypocritical for the NFL to emphasize the safety of players (particularly in regards to concussions) while allowing its players to play a game on only three days' rest, which he considered to be equally "dangerous". All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. NFL Network has occasionally used non-Fox Sports broadcast teams for the games that air exclusively on that network. [97], On January 29, 2015, the NFL released its health and safety report, which states that an average of 4.8 injuries were sustained during Thursday games compared to 6.9 injuries per game on Sundays and Mondays. [citation needed]. This format carried over to the 2007 season. During Super Bowl week in 2012, it was announced that the Thursday Night Football package would expand from eight to 13 games and air on NFL Network, again soliciting and rejecting offers from Turner Sports and Comcast. Amazon initially began its Thursday Night Football coverage during the 2017 season. [21], The rights were negotiated under a one-year contract valued at $275 million; on January 18, 2015, the NFL announced that it would renew the arrangement with CBS for the 2015 season, with its value increasing to around $300 million. The collaboration will also include streaming content on Twitter's Periscope service, such as behind the scenes access. Most of the games kick off at 8:20 p.m. Eastern Time, but games in the package also air occasionally on Saturdays in the later portion of the season, as well as a single Sunday morning game from London in the NFL International Series(these games have be… Thursday Night Football games, sometimes abbreviated to TNF, is a little slice of heaven sent down to serious football fans. For the 2012 season, a Spanish-language broadcast was added as second audio program. During the games, a distinct graphics package co-branded with both CBS and NFL Network logos is used, certain players on each team wear microphones, and 4K cameras are used to allow zoom-in shots during instant replays. [43], On January 30, 2018, it was reported by multiple sources that Fox had won the package. By 2012, Thursday Night Football had grown to a 13-game schedule exclusively on NFL Network, where it remained through the 2013 season. Thursday Night Football (often abbreviated as TNF, branded as Thursday Night Football presented by Bud Light Platinum for sponsorship reasons) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that broadcast primarily on Thursday nights. [19][20] Following complaints by Rihanna on Twitter regarding the removal, the song was pulled entirely from future broadcasts. [8] The decision came as the league wished to heighten the profile of its Thursday night games, which had suffered from relatively lower viewership and advertising revenue in comparison to other games. (which exclusively streamed an International Series as part of a trial during the 2015 season, but would shut down its original video content service in January 2016). 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