NFL flex-schedule makes first change

**Prophet** · 10-24-2006, 02:55 PM

NFL flexes, to move Bears-Giants to Sunday night
Updated: Oct. 24, 2006, 2:34 PM ET
Associated Press

NEW YORK -- The Chicago Bears' game against the New York Giants at the Meadowlands on Nov. 12 was switched Tuesday by the NFL from an afternoon to a night game, the first under the flexible scheduling format implemented in the new television contract...

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Bears-Giants will be first Sunday night game under flexible scheduling
Associated Press
24 Oct. 2006

NEW YORK (AP) - The Chicago Bears' game against the New York Giants at the Meadowlands on Nov. 12 was switched Tuesday by the NFL from an afternoon to a night game, the first under the flexible scheduling format implemented in the new television contract...

**NodakPaul** · 10-24-2006, 03:06 PM

Dang it Pro... er Acumen.
I was just about to post this, but of course you beat me to it.

**Zeus** · 10-24-2006, 03:57 PM

Here's that week's schedule:

WEEK 10
Sunday, Nov. 12
GAME TIME SIRIUS Radio
AWAY HOME
Baltimore at Tennessee 1:00 p.m. 107

Buffalo at Indianapolis 1:00 p.m. 125 123
Cleveland at Atlanta 1:00 p.m. 118 118
Green Bay at Minnesota 1:00 p.m. 122 181
Houston at Jacksonville 1:00 p.m. 158 158
Kansas City at Miami 1:00 p.m. 110 143
N.Y. Jets at New England 1:00 p.m. 146 146
San Diego at Cincinnati 1:00 p.m. 130 119
San Francisco at Detroit 1:00 p.m. 117 117
Washington at Philadelphia 1:00 p.m. 144 144
Denver at Oakland 4:05 p.m. 125 143
Dallas at Arizona 4:15 p.m. 110 123
New Orleans at Pittsburgh 4:15 p.m. 153 153
St. Louis at Seattle 4:15 p.m. 147 130
Chicago at N.Y. Giants 8:15 p.m. 147 152

CBS and FOX each get to protect one game a weekend (or have a certain number of "protects" - no time to look it up now, ready to go home).

I'd guess that these are the "protects" for Week 10:
CBS:
San Diego @ Cincinnati
FOX:
Washington @ Philadelphia

Now, if I *REALLY* had to guess, I'd say that CBS did protect that game and that FOX passed on protecting anything for later in the year.
I'll look into that tomorrow.

=Z=

**Prophet** · 10-24-2006, 05:27 PM

KFFL
Giants | Week 10 matchup with Bears moved to primetime
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:45:11 -0700

Larry Mayer, of ChicagoBears.com, reports the NFL has moved the Week 10 game between the Chicago Bears and New York Giants from a tentatively scheduled 1:00 EST kickoff to 8:15 EST.

Bears | Week 10 matchup with Giants moved to primetime
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:38:47 -0700

Larry Mayer, of ChicagoBears.com, reports the NFL has moved the Week 10 game between the Chicago Bears and New York Giants from a tentatively scheduled 1:00 EST kickoff to 8:15 EST.

**Zeus** · 10-25-2006, 08:34 AM

"AWZeus" wrote:

Now, if I *REALLY* had to guess, I'd say that CBS did protect that game and that FOX passed on protecting anything for later in the year.
I'll look into that tomorrow.

Okay - I looked into it a bit more:
http://www.nfl.com/schedules/tv/flexible

CBS and FOX will each be able to protect a total of five games in the seven weeks of flexible scheduling, but not more than one game in any week.

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