Major changes could be coming to the NFL schedule whether the fans and media like it or not.
The 2026 NFL season is currently on track to feature three games on Thanksgiving Day and one on Black Friday. According to ESPN insider Adam Schefter, there's a chance a game will be played on Thanksgiving Eve as well.
"NFL now is exploring playing a game on Thanksgiving Eve as early as this season," Schefter said. "This year this would be Wednesday, Nov. 25."
FOX.
During this Wednesday's edition of "First Take," longtime radio host Chris Russo unleashed an epic rant about the NFL potentially adding a Thanksgiving Eve game to its 2026 schedule.
"They're exploring one on Thanksgiving Eve? The NFL wants to play a game on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. Half the games you give us on Thanksgiving stink anyway because you can't flex it and we're stuck with Denver-Kansas City with freakin' no Mahomes! So now we're gonna explore playing a game on Thanksgiving Eve," Russo said, via Awful Announcing.
"That's an NBA night! I'm in bed at 8 o'clock, I worked all week, and I worked on this stupid show with him. And then I gotta sit there, and I gotta go home and watch a regular-season NFL game with guys that played on Sunday? I mean, that's a little rough. I know they're only exploring it, but can the NFL leave a holy day alone? How much football can we take? Let the NBA have Thanksgiving Eve."
Would it be a foolish decision by the NFL?
While we understand why the NFL would want to take over another prime-time TV slot, a Thanksgiving Eve game would only hurt the product that following Sunday.
"A third of last year's Sundays were shockingly uneventful because of all the extra viewing windows you've created, but sure why not," NFL host Dave Helman argued.
Is that something the NFL will take into consideration? We're not sure, especially since money is usually the determining factor for decisions like this.
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