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Breaking: Colts-Bears Game Start Moved; Chiefs-Patriots Now Monday Night

The much-anticipated matchup between the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears has been moved back to later in the afternoon after the NFL postponed a game because of positive COVID-19 tests.
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Breaking: Colts-Bears Game Start Moved; Chiefs-Patriots Now Monday Night
Breaking: Colts-Bears Game Start Moved; Chiefs-Patriots Now Monday Night

CBS lost its late-afternoon national game on Sunday when the league postponed the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots, so the league needed a quick replacement.

The chose to move the Indianapolis Colts' game with the Chicago Bears, which will now start at 4:25 p.m. ET from Chicago instead of the orginially scheduled 1 p.m. ET start.

And it was announced Sunday morning that after no more positive COVID tests that the Chiefs and Patriots will play Monday night after all. The game will start at 7:05 p.m. ET and the regularly scheduled Monday night game between the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons will start at 8:50 p.m. ET instead of 8:15.

The move was necessitated when the Patriots game' with the Chiefs had to be postponed because quarterback Cam Newton tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. 

There have been reports that Chiefs practice squad quarterback Jordan Ta’amu also tested positive. The Chiefs' team headquarters has been shut down as a result.

Earlier this week the league postponed the Steelers-Titans game until later in the season due to positive Titans COVID-19 tests.

“In consultation with infectious disease experts, both clubs are working closely with the NFL and the NFLPA to evaluate multiple close contacts, perform additional testing and monitor developments,’’ the NFL said in a release regarding the Patriots-Chiefs situation. “All decisions will be made with the health and safety of players, teams and gameday personnel as our primary consideration.’’

In the Indianapolis TV market, the game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will now be shown in the 1 p.m. on WTTV-TV, Channel 4. 

In the Chicago and Northwest Indiana TV market, WBBM-TV, Channel 2 is also picking up the Bucs-Rays game in the early window, followed by Bucs-Bears.

Here's the complete NFL schedule for Week 4

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Tom Brew has been the publisher of “Indiana Hoosiers on SI’’ since 2019. He has worked at some of America's finest newspapers as an award-winning reporter and editor for more than four decades, including the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times, Indianapolis Star and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He operates seven sites on the “On SI’’ network. Follow Tom on Twitter @tombrewsports.

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