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The NFL has started doing cross flexing in 2014 which means that the league may flex a game from Fox to CBS and vice versa. I usually do like it but when they flexed the Panthers Falcons game in week 17 in 2014 from Fox, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms called that game which I didn't like about it because it's not really a huge rivalry. Anybody like the cross flex?
The NFL has started doing cross flexing in 2014 which means that the league may flex a game from Fox to CBS and vice versa. I usually do like it but when they flexed the Panthers Falcons game in week 17 in 2014 from Fox, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms called that game which I didn't like about it because it's not really a huge rivalry. Anybody like the cross flex?
I doubt if there's any such thing, you just made all of that stuff up
I doubt if there's any such thing, you just made all of that stuff up
I'm not the one that made this stuff up. It's league that made it up. This came into effect beginning in 2014. As I said, Panthers Falcons in week 17 was flexed from Fox to CBS. Vikings Bears in week 11 of 2014 was also flexed from Fox to CBS. Besides, prior to 2006, there was no flex schedule. Whatever the schedule was, the time start stayed the same but there were a few exceptions. Giants Saints, in 2005, was played in New Jersey, was moved to Monday night because of Hurricane Katrina. In 1997, the game between the Bears and Dolphins was moved to Monday night because of the World Series that year. Besides, last year, week 17 between the Rams and 49ers that game was cross-flexed to CBS from Fox. Jaguars Texans in week 17 in 2014 and the game between the Texans and Titans in week 8 of 2014 was flexed from CBS to Fox. That's how the cross-flex works.
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The NFL has started doing cross flexing in 2014 which means that the league may flex a game from Fox to CBS and vice versa. I usually do like it but when they flexed the Panthers Falcons game in week 17 in 2014 from Fox, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms called that game which I didn't like about it because it's not really a huge rivalry. Anybody like the cross flex?
The game you mentioned was flexed so it would be a national game between two teams for a playoff spot. I like Fox over CBS but no issue with the flex if it means watching football that actually means something late in the year.
Ever since CBS started televising some Thursday Night games, they have been carrying some NFC games on Sundays. With the exception of the analysts, it's kind of like old times when CBS used to be the broadcast station that carried all of the NFC games. Fox definitely has better commentators for their games, though. I don't mind the cross flex with broadcast stations, because I can't always pick up the FOX station that my beloved Redskins play on, but usually when CBS is televising their games, I will get them each and every time.
Ever since CBS started televising some Thursday Night games, they have been carrying some NFC games on Sundays. With the exception of the analysts, it's kind of like old times when CBS used to be the broadcast station that carried all of the NFC games. Fox definitely has better commentators for their games, though. I don't mind the cross flex with broadcast stations, because I can't always pick up the FOX station that my beloved Redskins play on, but usually when CBS is televising their games, I will get them each and every time.
I remember it taking me about 4 years of getting used to seeing the NFL on FOX back in the mid 90's because it just seemed so weird at the time.
Bringing this thread up to date, I remember a couple years ago when the Vikings played the Bears in Soldier Field, that game was cross flexed from Fox to CBS. That was the same year when the Panthers Falcons game in week 17 was flexed from Fox to CBS as the case for Jaguars Texans fromCBS to Fox.
Does anybody really think the cross flexing is a good idea?
The game you mentioned was flexed so it would be a national game between two teams for a playoff spot. I like Fox over CBS but no issue with the flex if it means watching football that actually means something late in the year.
So if you say you like Fox over CBS, does that mean you like Fox announcers better than CBS? It seems like everybody hates CBS more than Fox.
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