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The Kansas City Chiefs at San Diego Chargers game on Sunday, December 17 will be played at 8:15 PM ET (5:15 PM PT) on NBC, the NFL announced today.

The NFL is implementing for the first time this year a “flexible scheduling” element on Sundays in Weeks 10-15 and in Week 17. Flexible scheduling will ensure quality matchups in all NFL Sunday time slots in those weeks and give teams a chance to play their way onto primetime and into the late-afternoon 4:15 PM ET time slot on CBS and FOX.

For each of the flexible scheduling weeks with the exception of Week 17, the NFL will announce the start times of games on Sundays no later than 12 days prior to that weekend. To ensure a Sunday night game and doubleheader games with playoff implications in Week 17, the flexible scheduling decision for that Sunday may be made on six days notice.

The flex schedule games for this Sunday (Dec. 10) are New Orleans at Dallas on NBC at 8:15 PM ET and Buffalo at New York Jets on CBS at 4:15 PM ET.

http://www.chargers.com/news/press-rele ... 061204.php

Oh no! This is a catastrophe of biblical proportions. Season tickets holders are cancelling for 2007 as we speak. Empty seats will abound. Merriman will eat children due to uncontrollable roid rage! Untold millions will be adversely affected by this. Da horrah! Da horrah!



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mvscal wrote:Gotta wonder how the NFL sold this concept to CBS and Fox, though.

I think it went like this:

"Either take it up the ass as per the new contract or we'll find another network willing to do so."