Week Nine, Broadcast Maps

We are at the midway point in the regular season.  How time can fly sometimes.

Week Nine Broadcast maps courtesy of 506 sports:

Week Nine Broadcast Maps

Byes this week are Cards, Ravens, Lions, Texans, Chiefs and Seahawks, so we are in for a lean week.

Primetime games are as follows:

TNF:  Browns @ Bengals

SNF: Eagles @ Cowboys

MNF (but honorary TNF): Bears @ Chargers

Damn league schedulers, damn….go home and think about what you have done.

As for Sunday afternoon, we have a 7:3 split.  I think there has only be one week where the early afternoon games have not outnumbered the late afternoon games by a 2:1 margin.

CBS Early features Raiders-Steelers in the vast amount of the country.  This one has wild-card implications, and the winner can help their playoff cause tremendously.  Jags-Jets has a weird distribution having a corridor from Atlantic City to the New Hampshire/Vermont-Canada border, Jags core market (more or less) and parts of Eastern North Dakota and the Northwest corner of Minnesota (maybe they have an affinity for the letter “J”),  Dolphins-Bills is another strange one with their core markets, bits and pieces of New England, and the great TV market of Greenville.   Titans-Saints are in most of the South-East.  The Minnesota Middle Finger makes a return.

CBS late features Broncos at Colts in most of the country.   Come root for your soon to be 3-6 Colts, marvel as they will host a team in the playoffs with at least 3 more wins than them.

Fox early has Packers-Panthers, which is another important game with playoff implications, in most of the country.  I wonder if they will flex that one to the night game. Redskins-Patriots is limited to their core markets fortunately.  Likewise with Vikings-Rams.  Fox late is Giants-Bus mostly limited to their native markets, plus Pittsburgh.  Falcons-9ers is also limited to their core markets, though it is telling of the 9ers season when they are not even broadcast in a significant portion of California.