NFL Schedule

[blackfordpu]

Is there no night game tonight?

[brownbear]

I saw that. I guess they don't want to compete with the World Series.

[UNHWildCats]

i thought that was weird too.

I think perhaps there contract calls for 17 games, and since they did the Thursday season opener and then a sunday nite game that week they had to sit out a week this season. But thats just speculation on my part.

It may also have been purposely done so as not to go head to head with the World Series game.

[TexasTerror]

World Series...

This happens annually...

FYI -- no Monday night game to end the season this year.

[UNHWildCats]

World Series...

This happens annually...

FYI -- no Monday night game to end the season this year.

Thats always the case, with the potential that the game would include atleast 1 playoff team you would be putting them at an unfair disadvantge with 1 less day.

[TexasTerror]

Thats always the case, with the potential that the game would include atleast 1 playoff team you would be putting them at an unfair disadvantge with 1 less day.

I remember all those pointless games over the year...definitely was not worth watching. Good thing for flexible scheduling the last few weeks! xnodx

[brownbear]

World Series...

This happens annually...

FYI -- no Monday night game to end the season this year.

The reason there is no Monday night game at the end is because it always ends up being a game that doesn't matter towards the playoffs, so no one watches it.

[Peems]

I don't understand the flex scheduling, how does it work exactly?

[TexasTerror]

I don't understand the flex scheduling, how does it work exactly?

The NFL has power to move games around to make the Sunday night football game an important once instead of a dud the last few weeks of the season. Gives us good football on NBC at night...

http://www.nfl.com/schedules/tv/flexible

[UNHWildCats]

The NFL this season will implement for the first time in its history a primetime “flexible scheduling” element on Sundays in Weeks 10-15 and in Week 17.


Flexible scheduling will ensure quality matchups on Sunday night in those weeks and give surprise teams a chance to play their way onto primetime.

The 2006 NFL schedule will list start times for all Sunday games during the “flex” weeks as 1:00 PM ET, except for games played in the Mountain or Pacific Time zones, which will be listed at 4:05 PM ET or 4:15 PM ET.


The NBC Sunday night time slot for “flex” weeks will list teams as “TBD.”

Only Sunday afternoon games are eligible to be moved. Flexible scheduling will not be applied to games airing on Thursday, Saturday or Monday nights.


Just as the six major college football conferences have done for many years, the NFL now will have additional flexibility to move the start times of games on Sundays, using a 12-day notice format.


For example, a game scheduled for Sunday, November 26 could move from a 1:00 PM ET kickoff to an 8:15 PM start, but the change would be made and announced no later than Tuesday, November 14.


The NFL has commonly moved games between 1:00 PM ET and 4:15 PM ET (eight times last season) on Sunday afternoons. The new practice allows the NFL to employ flexible scheduling to include one of its primetime package of games – on Sunday evenings.


Sunday afternoon games, as in the past, can still be moved between 1:00 and 4:05 or 4:15 ET.


In Week 17, in order to ensure a Sunday night game with playoff implications, the decision to move the start time may be made on six days notice.


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.


During the 2005 regular season, the NFL conducted a study with mock flexible scheduling. An eight-person task force consisting of team executives, one from each division, was consulted on a weekly basis. In addition, television network partners and the NFL’s broadcasting department participated weekly in the process.

http://www.jaguars.com/news/article.aspx?id=5097

[proasu89]

I saw that. I guess they don't want to compete with the World Series.

Undercover Brother is on the Comedy Chanel. They know when they don't stand a chance.

[Peems]

Ahh thanks to all. At first I thought it was the power to move Sunday games to Monday, and thought that was weird and unfair, but now it all makes sense. xnodx