NFL Black Friday deals are a great way to score discounts on your favorite team’s merchandise, jerseys, and more. Many retailers offer NFL Black Friday deals, both online and in-store.
Here are some of the best NFL Black Friday deals we’ve found so far:
- NFL Shop: NFL Shop is the official online store of the NFL, and they offer some of the best NFL Black Friday deals. This year, they are offering up to 50% off on select items, including jerseys, hats, and apparel.
- Fanatics: Fanatics is another great place to find NFL Black Friday deals. They offer a wide variety of NFL merchandise from all 32 teams. This year, they are offering up to 40% off on select items, including jerseys, hats, and apparel.
- Nike: Nike is a popular brand for NFL apparel, and they offer some great NFL Black Friday deals. This year, they are offering up to 30% off on select items, including jerseys, hoodies, and shoes.
- Dick’s Sporting Goods: Dick’s Sporting Goods is a great place to find NFL jerseys, hats, and other memorabilia. This year, they are offering up to 25% off on select items, including jerseys, hats, and apparel.
- Amazon: Amazon is a great place to find NFL Black Friday deals on a wide variety of products, including jerseys, hats, apparel, and home goods. This year, they are offering up to 20% off on select items.
In addition to these general retailers, many team-specific retailers also offer NFL Black Friday deals. Be sure to check the websites of your favorite teams to see what deals they are offering.
Here are some tips for shopping for NFL Black Friday deals:
- Start shopping early: The best deals are often available early on Black Friday.
- Shop online: This can help you avoid crowds and get the best deals.
- Sign up for email alerts: Many retailers will send out email alerts with their Black Friday deals.
- Compare prices: Be sure to compare prices before you buy to make sure you are getting the best deal.
- Be prepared to wait: If you are shopping in-store, be prepared to wait in line.
- Be patient and courteous: Shopping can be stressful, so be patient and courteous with other shoppers and store employees.
With a little planning and preparation, you can have a successful shopping experience and score some great NFL Black Friday deals.
The Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets face off in the National Football League’s first ever Black Friday game this week — but it’s not going to be the usual broadcast or cable offering. The game will stream exclusively on Amazon’s
Prime Video.
The NFL’s decision to start a new Thanksgiving tradition with a streaming platform instead of a broadcast or cable channel is yet another indicator of trouble for linear, or traditional, TV, which has suffered from slumping ad revenue and customers cutting the cable cord.
The Black Friday matchup is an expansion of Amazon’s “Thursday Night Football” deal with the NFL, which has helped drive a 6% jump in NFL viewership since last year. And with the game streaming the day after Thanksgiving, Amazon could capture some of the holiday viewership, which broke records last year.
“I don’t make predictions on ratings,” Brian Rolapp, the NFL’s chief media and business officer, told CNBC’s Julia Boorstin this week. “But I think they’ll be good.” The Black Friday game kicks off at 3 p.m. ET.
Thanksgiving Day is already a football tradition, with the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys headlining matchups through the years. Fox, CBS and NBC all will broadcast games on the holiday.
The NFL and Amazon hope the Black Friday game will become an annual tradition, executives said Tuesday at a media conference. In a push to drive Amazon e-commerce sales, the streaming broadcast will feature QR codes at the bottom of the screen that will link to some of Amazon’s Black Friday deals. Country music icon Garth Brooks will take the stage in an exclusive postgame concert.
Amazon’s 11-year “Thursday Night Football” deal and YouTube TV’s “NFL Sunday Ticket” package are just a few examples of live sports programming making the jump from cable to streaming. In October, Warner Bros. Discovery rolled out its Bleacher Report Sports Add-On Tier for the company’s flagship streaming platform Max, offering subscribers hundreds of live sports events.
ESPN has long ruled sports programming on traditional TV. But that could all change when the cable stalwart brings all its programming to streaming, in a planned direct-to-consumer release.
Yet even as the streaming trend picks up, sports programming is helping keep cable and traditional TV alive, for the moment.
Earlier this year, data firm Nielsen reported that traditional TV made up less than half of overall TV usage in July. But linear popped back in August and September. The jump was largely driven by the return of college and professional football, Nielsen said in a report released last month. ESPN also snagged the top 11 telecasts for the month of September, 10 of which were football-related.
ESPN has so far weathered the storm of the TV decline, capturing a “modest increase” in ad revenue in parent company Disney’s most recent quarterly report, even as overall TV revenue for the company fell.
Sports programming is holding the linear television industry together, according to Macquarie analyst Tim Nollen. And ESPN is a huge part of that.
But ESPN’s dominance in sports programming could pose a potentially fatal threat to linear TV. When ESPN unleashes its direct-to-consumer service, which would offer much more than its current ESPN+ app, it could be the push sports fans are waiting for to abandon the bundle altogether.
“When ESPN puts their DTC product online, depending on the pricing, it may create a critical mass of live sports outside of the bundle to accelerate cord cutting,” said UBS media and telecom analyst John Hodulik. “That’s what I think people are waiting for.”
