DALLAS — Earlier this week, the NFL announced that it would be playing a regular-season game on a new day each year: Black Friday.
For years, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has been a post-holiday smorgasbord of college football. In a way, Black Friday belongs to the sport, a fabric of its existence, just like Saturdays in the fall, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
These are traditional college football days.
Well, not anymore.
The NFL continues to encroach on the territory that has for years belonged to its free farm system. Black Friday is only the latest.