Flexible NFL could create better Sunday match-ups

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2397614

 

NEW YORK -- The NFL has its plan for eliminating those not-ready-for-prime-time matchups that too often sneaked onto national television.

 

The league plans to hold off scheduling Sunday night games in seven of the final eight weeks -- just as playoff races start heating up -- to ensure the best games are played on NBC. The league has long wanted some kind of flexible scheduling, but could never implement one until now.

 

For Weeks 10-15 and Week 17, the final regular-season weekend, all Sunday games will be listed with start times of 1 p.m. or 4:05-4:15 p.m. EST.

 

The league must then announce which match will be played Sunday night at least 12 days before the date of the game.

[greenegt 3]

Excellent news. A lot of the Sunday night games in year's past have been crap. Now, we can get some good primetime matchups without rearranging team schedule's too much.

[veebs4 2]

Well, I guess in reality, Weeks 10-15 and 17 Sunday schedules should read 1, 4:15, or 8 PM.

[murf74 461]

They always seem to schedule a lot of average teams on Sunday night like Arizona, Cleveland, Saints, etc. to get their token prime time games. This makes for horrible entertainment value. At least now we are guaranteed it won't be so bad after mid-season.

[t.j 35]

This is a stupid idea.