A big change is coming to the NFL's widely maligned 'Thursday Night Football,' with an even bigger one potentially on the way.
, the proposals to increase the number of times an elite team can play that day was bound to be controversial.
Take one such player who now seems pretty likely to play an extra Thursday game many times for the rest of his career: The flex scheduling seems to be controversial even among owners, as indicated by the fact that the proposal wasn't pushed through Tuesday.who called the idea"abusive" for fans who attend games"People have gotten used to going from Sunday afternoon to Sunday night, that doesn't mean that they like it. This year, we could be flexed to Monday night, which I think is really inconsiderate to our ticket-holders. To flex a game back to Thursday night, to me, is just abusive.
On the other hand, you have the even more influential Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who praised the idea's media potential to Yahoo Sports' Jori Epstein: As Mara indicated, this matter clearly isn't settled, but Jones and his allies now only have two months to find voters willing to change sides.
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