Jets among several teams interested in hosting Black Friday game annually - ESPN

The NFL's newly installed Black Friday game has become a hot commodity, according to league executive Mike North, who said the New York Jets were one of multiple teams that «raised their hand» to host the game on an annual basis.

North discussed several schedule-related topics during a recent interview on «The Adam Schefter Podcast,» including this year's inaugural Black Friday game when the Jets will host the Miami Dolphins on Amazon.

North told reporters last week that the Cincinnati Bengals lobbied to host the Black Friday game as an annual fixture. During his interview with Schefter, he mentioned the Jets as another team interested in being an annual host of the holiday game, similar to the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys traditionally hosting nationally televised games on Thanksgiving.

«I hope I'm not speaking out of turn when I mentioned to people that the Bengals volunteered,» said North, the NFL's vice president of broadcast planning. «There were others that kind of raised their hands for Black Friday as well.»

The league announced last week that this year's Black Friday game would be hosted by the Jets, who will be featured in five additional prime-time games in 2023 with Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback.

«The Jets, once they found out they were the host team, then started to think about, 'Hey, is this something we could make a permanent fixture as part of the NFL schedule?'» North said. «Maybe they didn't raise their hands in February, but now that they have been selected as the Black Friday host, I think they might be interested in it, too.»

Amazon, which will distribute the game on Prime Video, reached out to the league about having one of the NFL's New York teams involved in the inaugural Black Friday