The NFL loves its Thursday Night Football games. The league is still the biggest ratings bonanza on network TV. Actually, not just on network TV. Primetime games still crush major cable players like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. But the NFL’s players hate it. And the Saints’ Drew Brees is speaking his mind on it.
Before we get to that we should just quickly address the elephant in the room. That’s the fact that in 12 Thursday night games, the Saints have been the away team in 11 of them. That gets to a point well beyond coincidence.