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NFL announces TV deals with ESPN/ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Amazon

The NFL announced a new set of national television deals Thursday, keeping games on ESPN/ABC, Fox, CBS, NBC, Amazon and NFL Network through the 2033 season.

The agreement keeps Sunday afternoon games on CBS and Fox, Sunday night games on NBC and Monday night games on ESPN, with some games also airing on ABC. For the first time, Amazon will be the exclusive home for Thursday night games, which will also be on over-the-air channels in the competing teams' home markets. NFL Network will also air select games.

ABC picks up two Super Bowls during the deal -- the first in 2026 -- with the other networks airing three each.

ESPN's package adds six games to the network during the season. There will be three Monday night doubleheaders -- with games on ESPN, followed by a game on ABC. There will also be a Saturday doubleheader during the season's final weekend and one Sunday morning game streaming nationally on ESPN+.

ESPN, which has previously aired a wild-card playoff game, will add one game in the divisional round as well.

For the first time, ESPN's Monday Night Football will be able to "flex" games, starting with Week 12 of the season, to ensure better matchups. ESPN's package also includes the ability to include four teams up to two times each.

ESPN will also continue to televise the NFL draft, as it has since 1980, and the Pro Bowl. NFL PrimeTime will also return to ESPN+ on Sunday nights, streaming throughout the week.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31088098/nfl-announces-tv-deals-espn-abc-nbc-cbs-fox-amazon

Amazon Gets Thursday Night Games, NFL Nearly Doubles TV Deal

The NFL will nearly double its media revenue to more than $10 billion a season with new rights agreements announced Thursday, including a deal with Amazon Prime Video that gives the streaming service exclusive rights to “Thursday Night Football” beginning in 2022.

The league took in $5.9 billion a year in its current contracts. It will get $113 billion over the 11 seasons of the new deals that begin in 2023, an increase of 80% over the previous such period, a person with direct knowledge of the contracts told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the money figures were not made public.

Amazon has partnered with the league to stream Thursday night games since 2017, but it will take over the entire package from Fox, which has had it since 2018 after CBS and NBC shared the package for two seasons. Amazon streamed a Week 16 Saturday game between the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals last year that was seen by an estimated 11.2 total viewers and had an average minute audience of 4.8 million. That was a record for the largest audience to stream an NFL game.
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With the exception of Amazon, the new deals will begin with the 2023 season and expire after the 2033 schedule. Games on Amazon will also be carried on over-the-air broadcast stations in the cities of the participating teams, which is also the case with games aired on ESPN and NFL Network.

Just sayin':

1) Cha-Ching!!! Well, the NFL salary cap will skyrocket the year the 2023 season TV revenue is factored in. Agents will want to position their player's contracts to become a free agent accordingly...:nod:

2) So much for watching any Thursday night games...:no:
 
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NFL owners approve 17-game season, starting in 2021

NFL owners approved the expansion of the regular season to 17 games Tuesday, a long-expected decision that will generate additional revenue for the country's richest sports league.

Players agreed to the additional game as part of their 2020 collective bargaining agreement, which gave the league an option to expand as soon as the 2021 season. The preseason will be reduced from four games to three to maintain compliance with the collective bargaining agreement, which limits the total number of preseason and regular-season games played to 20.

There will remain one bye week per team. The season will begin on Thursday night, Sept. 9 and will end on Jan. 9, 2022. The Pro Bowl will be played on Feb. 6, 2022 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, and the Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles has been pushed back one week, from Feb. 6 to Feb. 13, 2022.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31166690/nfl-owners-approve-17-game-season-2021
 
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NFL expects full stadiums for 2021 season, commissioner Roger Goodell says

The NFL is making plans to open its stadiums to full capacity for the 2021 season, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters after the first day of a two-day virtual meeting of owners, Goodell said: "All of us in the NFL want to see every one of our fans back. Football is simply not the same without fans, and we expect to have full stadiums in the upcoming season."

Some of that expectation is based on factors beyond the NFL's control. The league never established an attendance cap while playing during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, deferring instead to individual teams in conjunction with state and local regulations. Attendance dipped more than 90% compared to 2019 and a total of 1.2 million fans were included in attendance counts for the entire regular season and postseason. League revenues fell accordingly.

In some cases, the NFL will need local municipalities to sign off on attendance plans in order to fully open up their stadiums for 2021. Vaccine rates might also play a factor. A total of 18 NFL stadiums are in use as mass vaccination sites and to date, 1.5 million shots have been administered at those sites, according to the league.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...lapsing-sideline-gonzaga-usc-elite-eight-game

Would you really expect him to say anything else?
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
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In return for Darnold, the No. 3 overall draft pick in 2018, the Jets received three picks: a sixth-rounder in the 2021 draft later this month and a second-rounder and fourth-rounder in 2022.
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Just sayin': The Jets get a 2nd, 4th, and 6th round pick for him. Apparently the NFL GMs think the chances of Darnold developing into a "franchise QB" aren't very good.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Just sayin': The Jets get a 2nd, 4th, and 6th round pick for him. Apparently the NFL GMs think the chances of Darnold developing into a "franchise QB" aren't very good.
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Honestly he's been not good. It's amazing he got that much. Feels like he is going to be one of those QBs that bounce around the league while being terrible while much better qbs flame out of the league after their first chance
 
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I'd think the Panthers (at pick #8) would have to trade up to probably the Falcons pick (i.e. 4) to make that happen and hope the 49ers take Jones at 3. I just don't see Fields still being available at pick #8.
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Falcons aren't trading inside the division to hand a franchise QB over to a rival.



If we move back (big IF), it's Denver or NE moving up.
Apparently our new GM is enamored with Kyle Pitts (for good reasons). I bet we just stay put.
 
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