NFL 2005 Season Thread

**VonErich Lives** · 12-28-2005, 04:29 PM

ok, just did a google, looks like it just NBC that gets it, but I thought it was part of ESPN 1.1billion dollar/year package also.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGO4CB6UN1.DTL

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NBC will get the league's opening game on a Thursday night, and the network also gets the benefit of "flexible scheduling" for the final seven weeks of the season. The NFL will try to avoid having matchups between also- ran teams in its prime-time telecasts; apparently the league figures it is easier on fans and schedule-makers to move the time of, say, a Sunday afternoon game to the evening, than it would be to move a Sunday game to Monday.