Despite a staunch objection from New York Giants co-owner John Mara, the NFL bowed at the knee of Amazon Prime on Monday and voted to allow flexing of late-season Thursday Night Football games.
Mara had previously called the idea of flexing Sunday games to Thursday “abusive” to fans. To appease Amazon, which will stream the Thursday games, the NFL will do it, anyway. Mara told media on Monday that he was “disappointed, but certainly not surprised” by the decision.
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The resolution will allow the league to flip a Sunday afternoon game into Thursday night and move the originally scheduled game to Sunday afternoon during Weeks 13 through 17.