Jerry Jones On Thursday Night Football: 'We Could Easily Have A Doubleheader'

Jerry Jones Opens Up About Thursday Football
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones signs autographs prior to the Cowboys' preseason NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones signs autographs prior to the Cowboys' preseason NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones doesn't sound like he's reading from the NFL's script when it comes to the topic of adding another game on Thursday night.

“We could easily have a doubleheader on Thursday,"Jones told Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Daily. "I don’t think that is out of the realm of thought, we haven’t set up how we will do it."

Kaplan also reported that the 71-year-old owner of the Cowboys "replied affirmatively to a question about whether the NFL was discussing the doubleheader concept."

Such a response would seem to contradict the comments made by NFL spokesmen Greg Aiello and Brian McCarthy after the the Wall Street Journal reported that the league is considering adding another game on Thursday night.

Citing an unnamed source familiar with the NFL's strategy, Matthew Futterman, Shalini Ramachandran of the Journal reported earlier this week that the NFL was considering a doubleheader due to the NFL Network's poor viewership of "Thursday Night Football."

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