flexed out for the Bengals-Chiefs match-up, originally scheduled for a 1 p.m. ET start, also on CBS. This meant that the Chiefs wound up playing on back-to-back Sunday nights. Also, this set a new mark for becoming the earliest game to be flexed into SNF, in NBC's whole tenure of covering Sunday Night Football. On November 5, the league announced that the previously scheduled Steelers-Jaguars match-up was moved to a 1 p.m. ET start time on CBS, and flexed out for the Vikings-Bears match-up, originally scheduled for a 1 p.m. ET start on Fox. And on November 8, the league announced that the Packers-Vikings match-up remained in place, meaning that the Minnesota Vikings also wound up playing on back-to-back Sunday Nights. On November 14, two more games were flexed into the SNF prime time slot. In Week 13, the 49ers again were flexed out of their original SNF slot, this time, against the division rival Seahawks. It was the second time that the 49ers were flexed out of SNF this season, as their Week 7 game between the NFC West-leading Rams was flexed out for the Bengals-Chiefs game. This game was replaced with the Steelers hosting the 8-3 Los Angeles Chargers, who made their first SNF appearance since 2014. In Week 14, the Los Angeles Rams, 7 weeks after having their first SNF game flexed out of primetime, travelled to Chicago to take on the NFC North-leading Bears, who hosted their 2nd SNF game in 4 weeks. This game replaced the game featuring the Steelers against the 2-10 Oakland Raiders. Those moves also meant that the city of Los Angeles also had back-to-back Sunday Night Football appearances. With that game, and their home game against the defending Super Bowl Champion Eagles in the Week 15 slot, the Rams wound up playing on back-to-back SNF appearances and the city of Los Angeles had 3-straight weeks with a team on SNF. On December 23, the NFL finalized the Week 17 schedule, which included a win-and-in game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Tennessee Titans being flexed into that week's SNF slot, with the winner clinching the AFC's final playoff spot and the loser being eliminated. This game marked the Titans' first appearance on SNF since 2009 (coincidentally, also against the Colts). In addition, SNF scheduled several rematches from last season's playoffs, including the Saints-Vikings game, the Steelers-Jaguars AFC Divisional game (which was