Thursday Night Football

According to Joe Flint of the Wall Street Journal, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch referenced the 42% drop in reach Thursday Night Football suffered since leaving Fox for Amazon while speaking at the MoffettNathanson conference.

Those who thought streaming quality and technology were at a high enough standard to take on the giant responsibility of showcasing the country’s most popular game in primetime may want to think again.

Former NFL star Aqib Talib is reportedly stepping away from his role on Amazon’s Thursday Night Football broadcast after his brother’s arrest for murder last week.

Cleveland Browns running back D’Ernest Johnson had one heck of a game on Thursday, adding another amazing step in his journey.

There was a time when Bill Belichick, the Patriots, and a Super Bowl rematch with the high-octane offense of the Los Angeles Rams, would translate into a massive rating night for the networks.

There was a time when Bill Belichick and the Patriots meant big time ratings for whichever network was televising them, that time is apparently over.

There’s no good time to have a player or staff member test positive for the coronavirus, but the timing couldn’t have been worse for the 49ers

The Week 7 edition of Thursday Night Football featured two of the worst teams in recent memory, and the ratings corresponded appropriately.

The NFL is still struggling to gain viewers as ratings for the league’s Week 3 games were down across nearly every game and network.

It was a rough night for the Cowboys on the football field, and it wasn’t any easier for some of their fans inside the stadium after the game.

During an appeal of his suspension, Browns player Myles Garrett accused Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph of using a racial slur, before Garrett tore off Rudolph’s helmet and attacked him with it on Thursday Night Football.

Most people have spent the time after hearing of Myles Garrett’s indefinite ban for attacking Mason Rudolph with his own helmet, celebrating the NFL’s decision and recognizing it as a positive step.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Myles Garrett is done playing for the Cleveland Browns this season. The NFL isn’t saying when the star defensive end will play again.

The agent for Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph says legal action may be taken against Cleveland Browns lineman Myles Garrett for attacking Rudolph with a helmet during Thursday night’s game.

Near the end of Thursday night’s game between the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers, a brief melee erupted where Browns lineman Myles Garrett swung a helmet at the exposed head of Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph.

Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph called Browns defensive end Myles Garrett a “total coward,” after Garrett tore Rudolph’s helmet off and struck him with it in the waning moments of their game on Thursday Night Football.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Browns kept fighting long after the outcome had been decided, and it likely will cost them their best defensive player.

A protest in Minnesota against what some are calling the Washington Redskins “racist” name, is going to get some support from a high-ranking state official.

There were some scary hits on the field Thursday night as the Green Bay Packers took on the Philadelphia Eagles. However, as it turns out, there were also some hits being dished out and taken in the stands.

Former Colts Punter Pat McAfee will join ESPN as an analyst on the network’s Thursday night college football broadcast.

Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Kyle Love is taking a ribbing today on social media, after video seemed to show him nodding off during the Panther’s game against the Steelers on Thursday.

Thursday Night Football suffered an 11 percent ratings decline, as the San Francisco 49ers routed the Oakland Raiders 34-3.

Faced with stiff sports competition, ratings for the NFL’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ broadcast of the Arizona Cardinals and the Denver Broncos crashed to a season low.

For those of you who loved the NFL’s color rush uniforms, we have some bad news. For the other 99.9999 percent of you, we have great news.

While NFL ratings have dipped the last couple of years, their television rights are still a hot property.

The NFL has struggled mightily this year to get people to watch their primetime games, as the ratings from the Week 15 edition of Thursday Night Football continue to come in, it’s clear that those struggles will continue until the end of the year.

A group of TV executives is scrambling to solve the growing problem of crashing ratings for the National Football League by cutting games to end the perceived “over-saturation” of football on TV.

The NFL just learned a tremendously useful lesson, that will serve them well if they choose to continue to apply it. What is that lesson? Simply this: if you don’t protest, more people will watch your games.

Looking exactly like the bunch of surly, sullen, spoiled babies they are, during Thursday night’s NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, the players might have all chosen to be muscle-bound pouters while locking arms, but… BUT!… those very same surly, sullen, spoiled babies were all standing for the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Charcandrick West was playing for Joe McKnight. Tyreek Hill was playing for the fans chanting his name. The Chiefs defense was playing for its injured leader. Everybody on the Kansas City sideline was playing for control of the AFC West.

The big websites, just like the big networks, engage in a bidding war over broadcast rights to NFL games.

The National Football League adds NBC as a broadcast partner for Thursday Night Football in 2016 and 2017. The network joins CBS and the NFL Network in airing the games.