The NFL privately bristles at the notion that it strategically dumps bad news on Friday afternoons. Setting aside for now the question of whether it makes sense to dump bad news on Friday afternoons (and it does), the NFL in recent years actually has used the tactic somewhat sparingly.
Ben Volin of the Boston Globe has compiled a list of several significant instances in the past year of NFL bad news and when it was announced. Let’s look at each one.
First, it’s important to remember a couple of examples predating Volin’s list.