gjkoeppen
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SNF was originally on ESPN. It's goin' back home.
It's not a done deal. The NFL has never signed TV contracts 2 1/2 years before the current ones expire.They have in the past done them about a year before they expire. Next they saw how the viewership dropped when MNF went from an over the air network ABC to a cable network ESPN so I'll bet if NBC's offer is close or the same as ESPN's NBC will keep SNF. Also ESPN has said that they will want the best games of the week being able to select the games they want and NBC doesn't do that. NBC does have the ability starting in week 10 to flex a different game if the scheduled game is a pair of losing teams with no chance of making the playoffs but that's different than ESPN that pretty much wants the best game every week. I also think that will end up with lower bids from FOX and CBS when their contracts are up if ESPN gets SNF because some of the games they normally have ESPN would be taking from them and they won't like that so they will basically tell the NFL you just short changed the league. Lastly the sportswriter for the Post who wrote this article didn't quote or even say that the NFL is close to agreeing to this. That article states that Disney has said this could be done by the end of the year, Disney isn't the NFL.
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