The television networks that show the NFL are in a bind.

As a group most of them dislike the rich guy with the messy personal life and also know he will bid far more than any of them are capable of to acquire a package from the NFL.

He doesn’t care if it loses money.

One of the network heads wants to bid the package up to ridiculous prices just to make the pain hurt more.

But, the others have argued that if they do that, they will have set the bar too high for the bids for the packages they want.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon wants to be the exclusive provider of all Thursday NFL games starting in 2023

Amazon is open to producing all Thursday night NFL games for its Prime Video streaming platform.

Any such deal would kick off no sooner than 2023 and might also include the NFL Network.

Amazon would be responsible for teaming up with a local broadcaster to televise the game in both teams’ local markets.- Source

Mailbag: What Would a Jeff Bezos Ownership Mean to the NFL?

Danny, at an owners’ meeting a couple years back, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told our Jenny Vrentas that he would carry Bezos “piggyback” into the NFL if the Amazon founder wanted to buy a team. There’s been speculation for years that it might eventually happen. If the late Paul Allen’s family ever decided to sell the Seahawks, that would be one logical target for Bezos. Washington would be another, given Bezos’s business interests (i.e., The Washington Post) in D.C.

What benefit would Bezos bring the league? There are really three things to look at here.

1) He’s capable of paying whatever for a team. So, let’s say he pays $4.5 billion for the Seahawks (valued by Forbes at $3.075 billion) or $5.5 billion for Washington (valued at $3.5 billion). That would only boost the values of other teams, in the same way Steve Ballmer’s buying the Clippers for a record $2 billion was a steroid shot for the value of NBA teams.

2) Adding Bezos to the ownership ranks would give the NFL one of the world’s most powerful and influential businessmen, and a pipeline into all of his relationships across the globe and his expertise in areas vital to the NFL like, for one, the future of media.

3) The country club would get just a little more prestigious, which, to these owners, deep down, does matter. – Source

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