So this is my theory on why we have our first ever Black Friday game this year. So Amazon was all like “We’re the Thursday broadcast, why don’t we get a Thanksgiving game?” And the NFL said they already have contracts for the Thanksgiving games, tough shit, nothing they can do until it expires. Then Amazon being Amazon threw an absolute hissy fit, and airing the solo Black Friday game was the compromise.

TL:DR Amazon hissyfit over no Thanksgiving game