Travis, Jason Kelce love Thursday Night Football, take aim at fellow NFL players who do not
Most NFL fans would likely tell you they aren’t fond of “Thursday Night Football,” with less than inspiring matchups and questionable play miring the product on Amazon Prime Video.
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, however, will tell you otherwise. Speaking on a recent episode of their “New Heights” podcast, the brother tandem said they’re in favor of playing games on “Thursday Night Football.”
“I’m a huge fan of the Thursday night games,” Jason Kelce said.
“I’m a huge fan of them even later in the season, too,” Travis Kelce added.
Jason cited the extra rest on the backside of “Thursday Night Football” games as the biggest benefit to playing them. He added that any player against them is merely looking to “makes headlines.”
“I am all for games being played on Thursdays because that means we have walk-throughs during the middle of the week and we don’t practice and then we get three days off after the game,” Jason said, via Pro Football Talk. “Players that are anti–Thursday night games are just looking to make headlines. There’s no f—— chance anybody with half a brain cell is against Thursday night games.”
NFL owners approve significant change to ‘Thursday Night Football’
The NFL has the power to flex Sunday afternoon games to Thursday nights beginning in Week 13 of the regular season after owners approved the proposal this past Monday. The league will give teams at least a 28-day notice before the change. The move likely upsets FOX and CBS, who each pay north of $2 billion to broadcast games. Amazon Prime Video, meanwhile, pays roughly $1 billion annually for the exclusive rights to “Thursday Night Football.” The streaming-only deal runs for ten more seasons.
Jason is a fan of flexing games given the product viewers have grown accustomed to seeing on Thursday nights.
“The other reason I’m a fan of the Thursday night games getting flexed is I just like good football being on prime time TV. I don’t want to turn my Thursday night television on and have to watch a bad game,” Jason said. “I like watching good football, and Thursday nights is one of the few nights that I get to watch football and just enjoy it as a fan. Let’s get some good friggin’ matchups.”