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Because of the Simpsons, America Will Be Stuck With the Cowboys on MNF in December

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You can make plans for Dec. 9 — you won't want to spend it watching Monday Night Football.

The 3-6 Dallas Cowboys are currently slated to host the 4-7 Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football in Week 14. The Cowboys were never particularly good this season, and are now one of the worst teams in the NFL with Dak Prescott out for the season. Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase are playing at All-Pro levels for the Bengals, but the rest of the team isn't very good and there's a very real shot their season is lost by Week 14. 

But even though the NFL now has the ability to flex Monday Night Football matchups between Week 12 and Week 17 to get better games in place, this one won't be eligible for one of the more insane reasons you can possibly imagine: 

It would be interesting to know if the NFL actually would have flexed out of a primetime Cowboys game if they had the opportunity. For as crappy of a matchup as Bengals-Cowboys appears poised to be, the Cowboys are still the biggest draw in the league. They have a giant national fanbase, and just as many people who hate watch them. 

Coincidentally, the Simpsons dropped the trailer for the alt-cast Monday: 

We'll see how much of an appetite there is for football in Springfield after watching four quarters of Cooper Rush and/or Trey Lance at quarterback. 

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Tim Kelly

Tim Kelly is the Managing Editor for On Pattison. He's been on the Phillies beat since 2020. Kelly is also on Bleacher Report's MLB staff. Previously, Kelly has worked for Phillies Nation, Audacy Sports, SportsRadio 94 WIP, Just Baseball, FanSided, Locked On and Sports Illustrated/FanNation. Kelly is a graduate of Bloomsburg University with a major in Mass Communications and minor in Political Science.

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