Thursday Night Football crew (Photo: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports)
The NFL has made a significant rule change for ‘Thursday Night Football’ that should make every owner, coach, executive, player and fan happy.
According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, the team owners just approved a new Thursday Night Football “flex” rule that allows the league to move a Sunday game into the TNF slot “with 21 days’ notice.”
As Pelissero noted, previous flex rules allowed the league to flex Thursday night games 28 days in advance. The new rule shortens that window to three weeks, meaning fans will be treated to (hopefully) far better TNF games going forward.
The Denver Broncos’ Week 16 road game against the Los Angeles Chargers was flexed into Thursday Night Football in place of the Cleveland Browns-Cincinnati Bengals game. At the time, the Broncos and Chargers were in the AFC playoff race, and both went on to earn wild card berths.
At the time of the Thursday Night Football flex announcement, the Bengals (4-7) and Browns (2-8) were among the worst teams in the AFC. The Browns finished 3-4, while the Bengals caught fire down the stretch to finish just outside the playoffs with a 9-8 record.
In 2023, the NFL introduced a new “flexing” system that allows them to switch out the ‘Monday Night Football’ schedules as well.
Quality Of Thursday Night Football Will Hopefully Improve Now
Thursday Night Football logo (Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images)
If you watched most Thursday night games on Amazon Prime Video over the last three years, you’ll notice that play-by-play man Al Michaels often sounded tired and bored. Well, can you really blame him considering how many lackluster games he and Kirk Herbstreit had to call?
The quality of Thursday night games will hopefully improve now that the league can eliminate dull prime-time matchups and replace them with juicer games. I mean, remember when we had to watch the Seattle Seahawks defeat the Chicago Bears 6-3 at Soldier Field?
Everyone Is Falling In Love With Grand Theft Auto VI’s New Female Character Who Looks Stunningly Real
GTA Lucia (Photo via Twitter)
Social media might be down incredibly bad as Lucia from Grand Theft Auto is going insanely viral.
GTA 6’s trailer 2 officially broke a record after the upcoming second look at the game, which has continued to take forever to come out.
GTA 6 broke the record for the longest wait between a first and second trailer for a Rockstar Games title ever.
Rockstar has built a rich world of criminals, lunatics, and thieves spanning from Liberty City to San Andreas and beyond. With GTA 6 on the horizon, fans have become ecstatic after seeing a picture of Lucia.
For those unaware, she is a female criminal in the game. Grand Theft Auto states that she did her time at a prison complex in the State of Leonida in the mid-2020s for an unknown crime.
As anticipation builds for the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, a picture shows Lucia stripped down to a two-piece bikini.
#GTA6 #GTAVI #GTA
GTA 6 Lucia pic.twitter.com/Is6BuMEi9b— Watchman (@DarkChannel_) December 26, 2024
Here is how fans reacted to Lucia’s apparent new look in Grand Theft Auto:
“Everything is woke if you’ve never seen a woman’s body irl,” one fan said.
Everything is woke if you’ve never seen a woman’s body irl
— Truffle (@Lynndor_Truffle) December 28, 2024
“They better have some awesome clothing to choose from. Gotta look cute while doing missions,” a second fan added.
A third fan knew they were no match for her: “If I was in a beauty contest against her, she’d get first place, and I’d get disqualified.”
“She’s beautiful, my sapphic heart can’t take it 🤧,” another X user added.
“not leaving my house anytime soon,” a fan stated about the impending release of the game.
“No arsenal, but ima be a gooner for sure, a sixth fan added.
One final fan added: “Anybody upset about a video game character needs to seriously reevaluate their life.”
Fans Have Waited A Long Time For Grand Theft Auto To Release New Game
After more than a decade of waiting, Grand Theft Auto VI is supposedly finally set to come out in 2025.
Despite their hopes for a release this year fading, the community remains engaged in hopes that a second trailer will be released in early 2025 and a release date of the actual game will come out.
With each passing day, the desire for more news grows stronger.
Hopefully, 2025 will give the fans what they so desperately want.
