Jason Kelce Gets Support After Publicly Calling Out The NFL

If you go at the king, you best not miss.

The NFL is king these days, that's for sure. The National Football League dominates the sports world, from revenue to TV ratings to media discussions. But as the NFL is broadening its schedule and broadcasting plans - moving away from the likes of CBS, FOX, NBC, etc. to streaming platforms like Netflix, YouTube TV, Peacock, etc. - is it risking its place atop the sports mountain?

Jason Kelce thinks so.

"Sunday is the day of football," Kelce said on his 'New Heights' show with Travis. "Outside of going to church in the morning, if you're still religious and you do that, Sunday is like where so many games happen and that's what you grow up, and you gear your entire week around watching football on Sunday. It's an institution at this point, the NFL playing games on Sunday."

"With every day that we keep adding in there, we're getting away from that just a little bit," he continued. "I think the game got big, one of the reasons it got so popular and big was because it was an event: Sunday is the NFL. And everybody set their week apart to tune into games that were happening on Sunday. ... I worry that we're getting away from that just a little bit by building too many of this."

It's not easy to publicly go after the NFL. But Kelce is 100 percent right.

The legendary Eagles star received a ton of support online following his public criticism of the league.

Kelce gets praised for his criticism

Fans believe Kelce is spot on.

"Not even slowly really. It's very quickly diluting the product in ways that are way more egregious than the NBA imo," one fan warned.

"Players don't like it. Fans don't like it. Why are we straying away from such a good thing?" another added.

"I don't get how the NFL doesn't understand this. NFL is king because it owns one day of the week. You risk becoming the NBA by spreading out the games too much," one fan added.

Sports Illustrated wrote that Kelce was "nailed it" with his criticism.

Albert Breer discussed what's happening with Dan Patrick, too.

"We've seen it over the years, right? They went from only allowing teams to play one Thursday night game per year to two," said Breer on a recent appearance on the Dan Patrick Show. "Now they can go and play a third game on a Friday night, which doesn't count as a Thursday night. You don't have to have a bye-week anymore-In fact, I think more teams than not don't have a bye-week after their international trips this year ... So they've sort of removed all of these different things, and I think the obvious reason why goes back to wanting to satisfy all of the partners who they're hoping will bid at a very, very high level over the next few years to either keep or get those [broadcasting rights] packages."

The NFL continues to pursue more and more money, though, and all of these broadcasting partners want their own TV windows. That means less games on Sundays and more on other days of the week.

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This story was originally published May 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM.