For the second time in three weeks, NBC has switched their Sunday Night game. Last week, they rejected the regularly scheduled Patriots-Seahawks game for the Redskins-Ravens contest. Next week, they are moving the Chargers-Buccaneers game so they can show the Panthers vs. Giants.With the Panthers victory over Tampa Bay on Monday night, they have taken over the lead in the NFC South. Carolina also trails the NFC East champion Giants by just one game in the race for home field advantage in the NFC. If the Panthers beat the Broncos this Sunday (and/or the Giants lose to the Cowboys), it will set up a battle for the lead in the NFC in Week 16.
The NFL also moved the Eagles-Redskins and Falcons-Vikings games from 1:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET. The "Sunday late game" has been the highest rated time slot for the NFL this season.
The Chargers-Bucs game was moved to 1:00 p.m. ET.
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12-10-2008 @ 2:44AM
John said...
They should have the best games in prime time!
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12-10-2008 @ 2:58AM
matt said...
they should move the steelers ravens game to sunday or monday night this week
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12-10-2008 @ 6:14AM
Paul said...
By the way, even if both teams win this week, the game will still be first place. If the Panthers were to beat the Giants, and they had the same record, Carolina would have the head-to-head tiebreaker.
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12-10-2008 @ 10:06AM
Michael-Panther fan from AZ said...
Showing some love for Carolina (finally) took long enough!
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12-10-2008 @ 10:04PM
darknessplayas said...
it's been a long time since i'm proud of being a panther fans, go panthers.
12-10-2008 @ 7:25PM
Mike said...
As a Giants fan in Tampa, ANY Giants game I can watch is a good thing. Gotta get Direct TV next year. Soooooo sick of the Bucs! Giants/Panthers should be a good one.
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12-10-2008 @ 7:31PM
soulcitysigma1914 said...
i actually don't like this move Michael from AZ. one thing that has been true about the panthers since 95 is that when ths team is in the limelight and there are high expectations of it, it chokes. there was only one year where the panthers lived up to lofty expectations and that was 2005, when people thought the healthy team would return to the NFC Championship and it did. When there were high expectations of them in 97, 04 and 07, they didn't live up. When they had big seasons in 96 and 03, no one was really expecting it.
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12-10-2008 @ 11:50PM
Michael-Panther Fan in AZ said...
Thanx for commenting SoulCity: I don't like the "Panthers Love Fest" going on right now either, I liked the Panthers being a quite 9-3 but its nice to see them get the R-E-S-P-E-C-T they deserve. But the talking heads need to love someone this week.
That NFC Championship game against the Seahawks killed me The Hawks dominated that game. Go Panthers!
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