If we didn’t already ready realize how bizarre 2020 has been the NFL may have put the icing on the cake of a COVID-riddled year.
The league has flexed the Cleveland Browns into a prime-time game … against a sub-.500 team, no less.
Cowboys flexed out of a primetime, Sunday night game.
Michigan-Ohio State cancelled.
Only 2020.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 9, 2020
The one-time laughingstock finds itself on national TV twice in six days. The Browns play host to the Baltimore Ravens, seeking revenge for a 38-6 pounding in the season opener, on Monday of Week 14.
Then, they will appear on “Sunday Night Football” against the suddenly sizzling New York Giants in Week 15.
The Giants have won four in a row heading into Sunday’s game with the Arizona Cardinals and are in first place in the NFC East.
Other implications by the audible: the Niners-Cowboys moves to 1 ET on CBS. Jets-Rams kicks off that day at 4:05 ET on FOX.