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Originally Posted by Joey Slugs
SNF is making the shift to NBC & Madden/Costas (rumor) will have broadcast duties. ESPN & NBC will not be allowed to hand pick which games they show. The only people that can do that are the NFL schedule makers. (Do you think that MNF would choose to show Green Bay v Baltimore when San Diego and Indy played that same week?) It'll never happen.
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Wanna bet?
Either the NBC Sunday contract or the ESPN Monday contract or possible both, have agreements for the network with notice to request a different game.
I've read two different version for NBC, one is it's the league's descretion, the other is NBC can request a game switch for the last 7 weeks of the season, so a 1pm or 4pm game would move to NBC for "prime time sunday".
As for ESPN, If I recall correctly, ESPN gets to request a different game and they actually get to pick the game for the last 1/2 of the season w/ 30days notice. This means a sunday 1pm or 4pm can get moved to Mondaynight, however I think NBC gets a certain number of "proections" so if they happen to have the best game of the week already they won't lose it.
I'll look later and see if I can find the exact details, but those contracts (1 or both) had provisions for making sure that they wouldn't get
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Green Bay v Baltimore when San Diego and Indy played that same week
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