Bengals vs. Cardinals Week 11 Matchup Flexed to 'Sunday Night Football'

The NFL announced on Monday the Week 11 matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Arizona Cardinals will move into the Sunday Night Football slot for Nov. 22. The San Diego Chargers-Kansas City Chiefs game originally scheduled for SNF will instead kick off at 4:05 p.m. ET on CBS.

Prime-time games used to be foreign to Bengals fans, with the franchise once going 12 years between Monday Night Football appearances. As ESPN.com's Coley Harvey noted, Cincy is now becoming a mainstay on the big stage:

With the Cardinals and the Bengals leading their respective divisions, their clash in roughly three weeks looks more appetizing than the AFC West battle between Kansas City and San Diego, neither of whom has a winning record.    

Both Arizona and Cincinnati will want to make strong statements that they're bona fide Super Bowl contenders in the second half of the season.

The two teams last met in 2011, with the Bengals picking up a 23-16 win at home. The victory catapulted Cincinnati into the playoffs, as it clinched one of the two wild-card spots in the AFC.