The Facts:
The league is moving its 4:15 p.m. ET Sunday kickoffs to 4:25 p.m. to reduce overlap with the 1 p.m. games. The 4:05 p.m. ET games will remain unchanged.
Reported by NFL.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
The move is to reduce the instances in which fans miss the end of the 1 p.m. ET telecast because they are to receive the opening kickoff of their home team's late afternoon games. "In researching the kickoff time shift, the NFL analyzed games from the 2009-11 seasons and found that 44 games required part of the audience to be switched to a mandatory doubleheader game kickoff," a release from the league reads. "With a 4:25 PM ET kickoff time, that number that would have been reduced by 66 percent to only 15 games. Approximately 40 games over the full 2012 season will be impacted by the 10-minute kickoff time shift -- with half of those moves coming in games played in Mountain or Pacific time zones with 1:25 PM or 2:25 PM local starts." Hard to complain about changes that result in it being easier to watch more football (although it could cut into some post-game shows)
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