Amazon is lobbying the NFL for a game on Black Friday

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"Amazon has made a little bit of noise about scheduling a game on Black Friday," reports Sports Business Journal's John Ourand. "A Black Friday game would complement Amazon’s e-commerce business, and it would be similar to its Premier League strategy in Britain, where it carries all of the league’s Boxing Day games. But this store may be closed; the NFL has been lukewarm to this idea."

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