The first N.F.L. game held on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The option for TV networks to swap games. A franchise playing two international games in a single season. Teams having to begrudgingly play two Thursday Night Football games in one season.
Those are some of the big changes to the N.F.L.’s 2023 schedule, the first under the league’s new media rights contracts. Signed in 2021, the deals, collectively worth about $110 billion, take effect this season with games set to air across CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN and Amazon Prime Video. The N.F.L. also inked a seven-year deal with YouTube in December for the rights to stream out-of-market games for as much as $2.