{"id":3430,"date":"2024-11-19T00:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2024-11-19T00:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:49:35","slug":"breaking-bizarre-reason-bengals-cowboys-monday-night-clash-cannot-be-flexed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Bizarre reason Bengals-Cowboys Monday Night clash cannot be flexed out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys cannot be flexed out of their Monday Night Football matchup scheduled for December 9 due to the television show &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The wildly popular animated television show that has run on FOX since 1989 has already submitted drawings, voiceovers, and other work for an alt-cast that will air alongside the game.<\/p>\n<p>That means football fans are locked in to hearing Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge, and more describing the gridiron action.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the NFL season, the league typically decides to place games with higher stakes in the valuable nationally televised slots without any competition.<\/p>\n<p>Picking Bengals-Cowboys before the season was a safe bet from league organizers, but not now.<\/p>\n<p>The game may feature two teams out of their respective playoff races in three weeks, per BengalsTalk.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/18\/21\/92211835-14098247-image-a-91_1731965551020.jpg\" alt=\"The Simpsons is one of the most popular animated shows\u00a0 in television history, airing on Fox\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Simpsons is one of the most popular animated shows\u00a0 in television history, airing on Fox<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/18\/21\/92211855-14098247-image-a-89_1731965542454.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Burrow and the Bengals are one of the NFL's most disappointing teams this season\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Joe Burrow and the Bengals are one of the NFL&#8217;s most disappointing teams this season<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/18\/21\/92211865-14098247-image-a-90_1731965547197.jpg\" alt=\"The Cowboys' hopes of making a playoff run do not look promising heading into Monday night\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Cowboys&#8217; hopes of making a playoff run do not look promising heading into Monday night<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cowboys enter Monday night&#8217;s in-state game against the Houston Texans on a four-game losing streak at 3-6.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably the team&#8217;s best player, Dak Prescott, is out for the season, as things look bleak for Jerry Jones&#8217; squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals are 4-7 and do not play again until December with their bye week up next.<\/p>\n<p>Both Cincinnati and Dallas are two of the NFL&#8217;s most disappointing teams, as both were expected to easily make the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Matchups such as Bills-Rams, Seahawks-Cardinals, and Falcons-Vikings would be great choices to replace Cowboys-Bengals if it was not for The Simpsons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The December 9 Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals cannot be flexed out of its time slot for a better game for a bizarre reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65,13,24,18,34],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-dailymail","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-nfl","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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