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Wait, why is the Vikings at Bears game on CBS?

Longtime sports broadcaster Jim Nantz is known for many things, but perhaps his most recognizable line and assignment comes from his work with The Masters — the major golf tournament he refers to as “a tradition unlike any other.”

In one of Nantz’s other major assignments for CBS, however — working as the lead play-by-play voice for NFL along with analyst Tony Romo — there has been far more evolution than tradition over the years.

One of the more recent wrinkles to the NFL broadcast schedule happened in 2014, when CBS and Fox were given the ability to “cross-flex” games into the coveted 3:25 p.