You’ll never catch me calling a preseason football game anything close to important, but Thursday night’s matchup between the 49ers and Texans does stand as a milestone of sorts.
Whether it’s a good kind of milestone depends upon how interested you are in the NFL and how willing you are to pay for access to a single game each week.
The game was the debut broadcast of the new Thursday night package, which moves over to the streaming service Amazon Prime after four years on Fox. The Amazon/NFL partnership is the league’s first all-digital-rights agreement, meaning that fans that are accustomed to watching NFL games on cable or network television, or even other streaming services, have some adjusting to do.