Watch NFL Thursday night football live on the app as well as the NFL Fantasy Live show.

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Any who doubt Christmas is feminine need only take a survey of any holiday-season mall during December weeks when gentlemen are entranced by Sunday, Monday and Thursday night football.

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Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Football see more social conversation when a game features a team from the east coast, and less when a team is from the west coast.

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Now active as the Browns take on the Ravens in a game where a defender catching the ball in the end zone with both hands is likely to be ruled an interception and not a touchdown, Thursday Night Football Xtra promises fans additional interaction with polls, games, stats.

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What we're watching : The Cardinal's and Mets hope to get the NLCS started today on Fox after being rained out yesterday, while Virginia Tech takes on Boston College in a pretty good Thursday night college football matchup.

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However, Thursday Night and Sunday Night Football are more heavily dependent on the teams playing to create an increasingly engaged social audience.

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To measure how that effectiveness of NFL programming compares across broadcast networks and nights, Fizziology provided a social engagement comparison of the last two years of social data (up to November 12, 2012) around Thursday Night, Sunday Night, and Monday Night Football.

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In the wake of a new labor agreement that saw the regular NFL officials return to the field Thursday night, league commissioner Roger Goodell sent a note to football fans Friday morning.

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