Hard Knocks to Make Major Announcement During Halftime of Thursday Night Football

Is HBO’s Hard Knocks going to be an in-season thing now, and if so, which team will be involved? It’s possible that the NFL wants to take the hit HBO show into the regular season. Citing a league official, Adam Schefter reports that an an announcement will be made during halftime of Thursday night’s Giants-Washington game “that will involve the future of the Hard Knocks series.”

See Schefter’s Hard Knocks announcement tweet below:

An announcement will be made during halftime of Thursday night’s Giants-WFT game that will involve the future of the Hard Knocks' series, per a league official.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 14, 2021

Twitter made some guesses on what it could be:

They’re cancelling it, cuz it’s sucked for years. There ya go

— Kenny (@KennyGuruFF) September 14, 2021

Better be one for every team. We all want to watch our teams hard knocks, not the bottom of the barrel every year https://t.co/e7rRP9OrcR

— Shea Lutkins (@slutkins4) September 15, 2021

Every team doing it? https://t.co/1LGwr1tQ49

— Damski 🌯 (@Damski32) September 15, 2021

Hope they start doing it for the full season https://t.co/BdKdJ3GHSO

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) September 15, 2021

In season Hard Knocks? 👀 https://t.co/LYfjOy3DTa

— Luke Sawhook 🪚🪝 (@lukesawhook) September 15, 2021

Why did they choose the worst game of the week to announce this?

— ✭Super Mario✭ 🏈 (@Mario_Powers_Up) September 14, 2021

https://twitter.com/nikgazcs/status/1437890374652026888

“Its going to continue to suck. Sorry.” https://t.co/f3GlHGmMS2

— PFTCommenter (Carson Wentz num.1 superfan) (@PFTCommenter) September 16, 2021

Take it behind the barn and shoot it dead. https://t.co/oKmV4lrlzc

— Michael Salfino (@MichaelSalfino) September 14, 2021

Juicy https://t.co/ZgMgdpDZ9q

— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) September 16, 2021

Hard Knocks needs to do something because the last few seasons have been a little boring.

The NFL is so wrapped up in public perception, so of course they pick and choose the safe storylines.

We will see what Hard Knocks is up to during tonight’s game, waiting with bated breath.

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