First "flexing" of NFL games

[Bob Jersey]

In week 6 (Oct 15th), Detroit at Tampa Bay (now both 3-1) will start at 4.25pm instead of 1... but remain on Fox.

https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/nfl-announces-schedule-change-for-week-6 (link)

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[Tom Wolper]

Won’t be the last flex.

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[Jim Ellwanger]

The Bucs had already been scheduled to wear their orange-and-white "throwback" uniforms for this game, for the first time in years -- the reason being that it's a matchup against a team from the old NFC Central, their home during the couple of decades they wore those uniforms. Moving the game to CBS would have made it even more old-school.

(For some years, the NFL had a "one-shell rule" for a team's helmets, which meant the Bucs couldn't switch between their regular pewter-colored helmets and the white helmets that are part of the throwback uniform set, so they opted not to wear the throwbacks at all. That rule has been eliminated after it was shown that it had no appreciable effect on player safety.)