Yesterday was two things at once. The NFL released its 2026 schedule. And it was the 8th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized sports betting.

Both are connected. More games, more platforms, more streaming. The NFL just created a Wednesday night Thanksgiving Eve game on Netflix. Three Christmas games instead of two. A record nine international games across four continents. The inventory keeps growing, and the government is paying attention.

The DOJ, the FCC, and the White House are already looking into the NFL's antitrust exemption. The league will say 87% of its games are on free TV. That's true. But every new standalone game chips away at that number, and the schedule they just released adds more of them.

In today's Daily Dose, I break down what the new schedule tells us about where the NFL is headed, why 16 international games by the end of the decade isn't a prediction but a certainty, and what the government might do about all of it.