Why do the Bears play on CBS vs MIN?

[richig07]

Pretty irrelevant question… but I'm genuinely curious if anyone has some knowledge.

Why are two NFC teams broadcasted on CBS for a noon Sunday game?

 

[Dirk]

Bye week issues?

All I can think of.

every once in a while I see a headscratcher like a NFC home team on CBS.

 

[beardown07]

I think it has something to do with the "flexed" games.

 

[noonthirtyjoe]

CBS is for old people and Bear games. Everything is already pre chewed.

 

[{+}Mother-Marge{+}]

hmm,....the pats played the bills [earlier] on FOX too,.....maybe they ~swapped~ these two games earlier in the year...?

 

[BearsFanInMN]

I've noticed this a few times this year with AFC teams on Fox and NFC on CBS. Probably is due to the flex games to ensure there's a somewhat balanced line up. All the night games have Miami, buffalo, New England, Indy, Pittsburgh, and Tennessee. So that would leave CBS a little light this week.

 

[blh7068]

The cross flexing of games is new for this season. However, yesterdays Bears-Vikes game might have been a late switch because I dont recall seeing it as CBS broadcast when the schedule was released. However, I did note that the Bears- Bills game was on Fox and the Bears-Lions Thanksgiving day game was on CBS.

 

[anotheridiot]

Pretty sure it changed this year, along with all networks tellling people what games are on other networks sunday and monday night.

I put on fox at noon, then the radio thinking we got blacked out and people actually stayed home boycotting the game.

 

[richig07]

Pretty sure it changed this year, along with all networks tellling people what games are on other networks sunday and monday night.

I put on fox at noon, then the radio thinking we got blacked out and people actually stayed home boycotting the game.

Damn, sorry but that's pretty funny. lol

I hope you noticed eventually that they were on CBS, or did you miss most or all of the broadcast?

 

[bksballer89]

They been doing this all year with the new cross flexing between networks.

Pats/Bills was on FOX earlier in the year.
Texans/Titans was also on FOX earlier this year.
Skins/49ers is on CBS this week

 

[bksballer89]

Pretty irrelevant question… but I'm genuinely curious if anyone has some knowledge.

Why are two NFC teams broadcasted on CBS for a noon Sunday game?

They stopped the segregation between the 2 networks