The big NFL news on Monday was that the league got a dump truck full of cash for Thursday Night Football.
That dump truck comes courtesy of CBS and NBC and it contains a total of $450 per season for the two networks to split 10 Thursday night games.
The league will make $45 million per game and a total of $900 million over the course of the two-year deal.
What does that mean for you?
It means two more games on broadcast television, which is probably the most important change from a fan perspective. The 2015 CBS Thursday night package, which the network paid $300 million for, only included eight games.
Second, and just as important to us, is it means less Phil Simms.
Somehow, Simms is the color man on the CBS No. 1 broadcast team, along with play-by-play man Jim Nantz. No problem with Nantz here, but Simms pretty much makes you dumber for watching a football game.
He’s really the worst analyst in the business, but the good news is, you’ll only be forced to watch him five times on Thursday night over each of the next two seasons.
Who are you getting for those other five games?
Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth.
Yeah, we know Collinsworth isn’t much of an upgrade, but even he’s a better alternative than Simms’ bland, completely uninsightful analysis.
So we’re going to count this as a positive.
The Green Bay Packers will have a Thursday night game in 2016. Cross your fingers it’s on NBC.