GREEN BAY -- The NFL has moved the start time for the Packers' Nov. 1 game against the Minnesota Vikings and You Know Who to a 3:15 kickoff, the league announced this morning.

The game had originally been scheduled for a noon kickoff.

According to an NFL news release, the move was not to give FOX a ratings blockbuster game for its afternoon schedule after the first Packers-Vikings game, on Oct. 5 on ESPN's "Monday Night Football," registered a cable TV record 21.8 million audience.

Instead, the league said the kickoff times for that day's New York Giants-Philadelphia Eagles game and the Vikings-Packers game were flipped due to logistical issues in the city of Philadelphia should the Philadelphia Phillies be in the World Series.  Giants-Eagles will now be played at noon CT and Vikings-Packers will begin at 3:15 PM CT.

To accommodate fans and city and stadium personnel in Philadelphia, the November 1 Giants-Eagles kickoff has been moved up three hours.  The Philadelphia Phillies are in the National League Championship Series.  If they win that series, the Phillies will host Game 4 of the World Series at 8:00 PM ET on Nov. 1. The game-time changes have been made prior to the outcome of the NLCS to give fans of all four NFL teams involved as much advance notice as possible.

In the event of a World Series game in Philadelphia on Nov. 1, moving the Giants-Eagles kickoff three hours earlier will help ease the burden on city service and law enforcement personnel who work at the two Philadelphia stadiums and staff the parking lots shared by the teams.