In a story by Sports Business Journal, the NFL inquired with teams how they felt if the league was to use flex scheduling for Monday Night Football. With ESPN’s contract running through the 2021 season, one provision they would like moving forward is the opportunity for flex scheduling for Monday night games. If so, ESPN would move Monday Night Football to ABC. But is flexing games to Monday night even a possibility?
First of all, it is not an ideal situation for teams. With precise schedules for when teams arrive and depart, hotel reservations, and everything else that goes into travel, changing the day of a game is not an easy task.