Amazon reportedly considers a pursuit of Peyton Manning
 

Amazon is building a weekly NFL production from scratch. And it has the scratch to do it right.

Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that Amazon “has grappled with the idea” of pursuing Peyton Manning to serve as the lead analyst for the Thursday Night Football package that debuts next year on Amazon Prime. Marchand emphasizes that Amazon has not yet begun a pursuit of Manning and possibly never will.

It wouldn’t be cheap; Manning surely would want (and deserve) more than the $18 million per year Tony Romo gets from CBS. The fact that Amazon games likely will have lower ratings than games televised by three-letter networks could make the platform less attractive — which could in turn require Amazon to pay even more of a premium to get Manning.

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