I don’t like it. I love football but I don’t live and die for football, I like watching other sports and I like watching other TV shows. I don’t want the NFL every night of the week, I have a life outside of DraftKings and my fantasy team.
I think in the long term it could eventually hurt the NFL. I think the NFL became a juggernaut because of all the casual fans that other sports couldn’t get. Think of all the people at your work, church, PTA, your neighborhood, who couldn’t name a single NBA player outside of LeBron but somehow are in a fantasy football league every year. I think a huge part of of that is accessibility, if you wanna follow the NFL without being a hardcore fan (whether to follow your local team or to do fantasy football) you have to pay attention on Sunday with the occasional Monday or Thursday throughout the season. The NBA, MLB, and NHL don’t have that, you gotta check in all the time sometimes 3+ times a week (or every night in the case of the MLB) in order to keep up, casual people don’t want that. So by making it a 6 nights a week thing you’re gonna make it harder for those people to follow and over time it will start to push them away from the sport.
But it doesn’t matter. Amazon and Apple own us, they’ll own the NFL and every entertainment option we have. They’re gonna push to own every night of the week using NFL games and they have the money to do it.
Oh ya I forgot this was only America where big corporations literally never win by throwing enough money at a problem especially when it comes to antitrust cases. Plus Amazon has already made comments about being willing to test what exactly a law written in 1961 constitutes as “broadcasting” if they need to. They are 100% aiming to dismantle the Sports Broadcasting Act