The raiders/bucs game just got sifted to Sunday afternoon.
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Is it time for the NFL's television rules to be overhauled?
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As of now, the Raiders/Bucs is the lone late game on Fox, swapped with the Seahawks/Cardinals game which will now be Sunday night on NBC.
main reason is so we are guaranteed a Sunday Night Football game
The whole Raider Offensive Line is on COVID protocol right now. If this game has to be moved again (Monday or Tuesday) then there may not be a late FOX game (just like in week 10 there is not an early CBS game due to Masters)
The whole Raider Offensive Line is on COVID protocol right now. If this game has to be moved again (Monday or Tuesday) then there may not be a late FOX game (just like in week 10 there is not an early CBS game due to Masters)
If Bucs-Raiders gets shifted to Tuesday, what happens with the World Series? Could we have the first ever NFL game on FS1?
Normally the NFL gets priority over baseball, but a potential deciding game of the World Series moving to FS1? Hard to imagine. Maybe the World Series game becomes a day game and wipes out the entire afternoon on Fox OTA.
Also means a big decision again for Joe Buck.
There's a crew already assigned that game
The Raiders' entire offensive line and one of the backups may not be available in time for Tuesday. Does the NFL risk a dangerous farce of a game with taxi-squadders and backups trying to fill in or just punt and move it to a Week 18?
Why wouldn't they? After all, Fox aired the godawful Giants/Eagles game last night in prime time with the #1 broadcast team. The only way you could have had worse football than that was if the Jets had been involved. A depleted Raider team would still be better than those three stiffs.
Why not have NFL game starts at 4 Eastern....when game gets done (say 7 or 7:15ish) then do pregame for World Series
Or it could be moved to Monday but right now game is scheduled still for Sunday
Only one OL is on the Covid list. The rest of the O-Line was in "close contact" and is at home but havent tested positive. Its no different than at my work (elementary school). We have teachers at home because they were in "close contact" with someone who tested positive. They have tested negative a couple times and are back at work.
That would be a definite improvement. The World Series vs. Springer, Maury, Judge Judy, etc.? No contest!
I think the last World Series day game was 1984? Nope, 1987, Game 6.
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No because that would wipe out E/I programming, news & Face The Nation on West Coast stations outside the 75 mile radius of NFL stadiums on weekends where CBS has the doubleheader. This would put those stations in the awkward position of being in violation of FCC rules
Once in THAT position, CBS (And FOX) stations for that matter would have to make the hard choice of having to drop football to fulfill their E/I obligations (And networks don't like it when affiliates do things like that)
CBS doesn’t have E/I programming on Sunday.
The decision was made a few weeks ago. CBS will start the Masters at 9AM Sunday morning.
Regarding E/I programing, the FCC loosened its rules last year:
https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/childrens-programming-act-fcc-revise-rules-1203264076/
some affiliates do because they have local news on Saturdays
As an example WCCO (CBS Minneapolis O&O) has E/I from 9-11am on Saturdays and 7-8am on Sundays (they have local news from 8-9 on Saturdays)
10 am Eastern. CBS News Sunday Morning will be shortened to an hour and Face The Nation will be preempted.
NFL Today will air at 3pm Eastern, followed by either Bills at Cardinals, Broncos at Raiders or Chargers at Dolphins at 4:05 Eastern.
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