Twitter Wins Bid to Stream Subpar NFL Games

Exciting?

Twitter has won the bidding war to show subpar NFL games on Thursday nights.

According to Bloomberg, Twitter beat out media heavyweights like Verizon, Yahoo and Amazon to secure the streaming rights. Facebook pulled out of the bidding process last week.

As anyone who has watched a Thursday NFL game knows, they are often ugly, to the point of being unwatchable. Yet here we are.

However much you think Twitter paid for the rights to show terrible games, it was probably more. Consider

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