Around the NFL (week 12)

[sportscurmudgeon]

Originally Posted by skinsfanthru&thru

I can't believe that game won't be televised. Why hasn't Monday night FB taken on the position of a flexible schedule to eliminate a crappy matchup of less than .500 teams like the 49ers and cardinals?

ESPN - - and ABC before them - - tried to get a form of flex scheduling for MNF and the league resisted. Their position was that changing the time of a game on a given day might be an inconvenience for fans who had tix, but changing the day of the game would be more than an inconvenience and the league did not want to alienate fans.


I'm not saying the league is completely right in their stance here, but they do have a point.


In any event, flex scheduling remains with the times of Sunday games and nothing else - - - unless of course it becomes economically lucrative for the league to change its mind during the next round of TV negotiations...