Sunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 13

December 10, 2010   ·   Morgan Wick   ·   Jump to comments

Also known as “Why Chargers-Bengals might NOT be flexed out.” This week’s Flex Schedule Watch is dedicated to the memory of Don Meredith, who Trey Wingo said on Monday’s NFL Live got people through the many “awful” Monday Night Football matchups in its early golden days.
Now, of course, the NFL is so desperate to avoid crappy matchups in their main primetime package they yanked it away from both Mondays and ABC, all so they could change one to three games a year. Granted, MNF has never truly been MNF since the end of the Gifford/Cosell/Meredith era… still, I repeat: was it worth it to end MNF as we knew it?
NBC’s Sunday Night Football package gives it flexible scheduling. For the last seven weeks of the season, the games are determined on 12-day notice, 6-day notice for Week 17.
The first year, no game was listed in the Sunday Night slot, only a notation that one game could move there. Now, NBC lists the game it &ldqu...

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