The NFL season is only in its third week, but St. Louis Fox network affiliate KTVI (Channel 2) is shuffling its lineup for the second Sunday in a row.
Instead of showing the Dallas Cowboys-Seattle Seahawks game at 3:25 p.m., as originally (albeit tentatively) had been scheduled, it has switched to the Chicago Bears-Arizona Cardinals contest.
"There was some thought that there’d be local interest in the matchup," she said.
Chicago's Solider Field, where the Bears play their home games, is the third closest-team to St. Louis .. about 300 miles from downtown. (Kansas City and Indianapolis each are about 250 miles away.