The flexible schedule

[Denver_Bronco]

Ron Borges, of the Boston Globe, reports details on the flexible Sunday night NFL television schedule for next season were ironed out last week during a brief league meeting in Orlando, Fla. The owners and networks came up with a system that will begin in Week 10 of the 2006 season because there will be no Sunday night game on Christmas Eve. In 2007 and thereafter, the flexible schedule will be in place from Weeks 11-17 except in years when there is a Christmas conflict. All games will be schedule for the normal 1 and 4 p.m. ET slots, but 12 days before the game teams will be notified their game is being moved to Sunday night. Fox and CBS each will have five ''blocks" per season, meaning they can stop a designated game from being moved to Sunday nights, but only up to a maximum of five times. The Sunday night NBC game will become the big night game of the week. NBC and the NFL have yet to decide whether the Sunday games will begin at 8:15 or 8:30 p.m.

[Dave Gray]

Sounds good to me.

Maybe we won't have to watch the 4-8 Packers at the 3-9 Lions anymore.