The NFL announced Tuesday it is adding a new holiday game next year. The league plans on scheduling a game for Black Friday that will be broadcast at 3 p.m. ET exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
This game will be added to a full slate of games during Thanksgiving week. The NFL schedule gives CBS, Fox and NBC each a game on Thanksgiving day, but with Amazon now broadcasting ”Thursday Night Football”, the company wanted part of the holiday schedule. Therefore, they get the lone Friday game on Thanksgiving weekend.
The schedule change was first reported in August as a possibility.