Chargers, Raiders swap of home games still looming

[6025]

http://blog.sfgate.com/raiders/2013/...or-oct-6-game/

As we reported last Saturday, the Raiders-Chargers game will be played on Oct. 6, and we now have a likely starting time: 8:30 p.m. The teams won’t be swapping home dates but appear set to move the kickoff back 7 hours due to the Oakland A’s baseball playoffs appearance.

The A’s locked up home-field advantage for the first round, and Major League Baseball and TBS have to decide if they want the A’s to play at 2 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 5. The conversion time from a baseball to a football field at O.co Coliseum takes about 18 hours, so you can see why the originally-scheduled 1:25 kickoff time looks like a no-go.

The Raiders are waiting on MLB to make an official announcement on the time change.

Why would the game be so late? The 49ers are playing the Texans at home at 5:30 on Oct. 6 and another NFL game can’t interfere with NBC’s Sunday Night Football broadcast. That’s why the Raiders game slides all the way to 8:30.

The Raiders-Chargers game will now be broadcast on NFL Network, league sources believe.

Just so I understand this, they are talking 8:30 Pacific or Eastern?

[Beerman]

Just so I understand this, they are talking 8:30 Pacific or Eastern?

pacific

[Buck]

Just so I understand this, they are talking 8:30 Pacific or Eastern?

8:30 Pacific / 11:30 Eastern

[6025]

8:30 Pacific / 11:30 Eastern

LMAO at the late start time, I was assuming Eastern originally. Oh well, I'm up for a 8:30 Sunday game.

[6025]

And one more question - why can't MLB jump through the hoops and adjust their schedule? Seems to me the NFL should have first dibs, especially since the Ravens already acquiesced to the Orioles on opening day.

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

Late night at the Blackhole! Would not want to go to that game...

[Beerman]

Late night at the Blackhole! Would not want to go to that game...

I doubt many make it to the game with an 8 hour tailgate! There are going to be a ridiculous amount of drunk people at that game.

[Buck]

I think the game should be broadcast on Channel 8 too, hopefully.

[TTK]

8:30 start time is ridiculous.

[Bolt-O]

8:30 start time is ridiculous.

Almost like a preseason start time.

[TABF]

8:30 start time is ridiculous.

I'm guessing nfl network will pick up the game as cbs doesn't want to mess with their fall Sunday programs.

[Buck]

8:30 start time is ridiculous.

Sounds like East Coast Bias.