Amazon’s edition of Thursday Night Football officially starts on September 15th with an AFC West clash between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs. For the first time, the NFL will have a streaming partner to exclusively show live NFL games throughout the season.
With this brings a lot of change as many fans haven’t yet embraced streaming games online, but will have to if they want to watch their favorite team play on Thursday night. Another change may or may not be the football itself.
On their @NFLonPrime social media accounts, Amazon announced that they collaborated with Wilson and the NFL to create a football “exclusively for Thursday Night Football.”
The above clip starts off with a normal football, but then it gets stretched out at the ends. Amazon says this ball is “faster,” “more aerodynamic,” and has “better grip.”
Russell Wilson added fuel to the fire by promoting the new ball.
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