We are at the midway point in the regular season. How time can fly sometimes.
Week Nine Broadcast maps courtesy of 506 sports:
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. [*Redacted] s-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.
The Minnesota Middle Finger is my favorite feature of these posts.
Do the areas for Miami @ Buffalo (Spero Dedes and Solomon Wilcots) seem a bit odd to anyone else? Is Obama preparing to invade again? Notice all the empty Walmarts.
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Why do I feel like the only reason we actually get to watch the Raiders in LA this weekend is because San Diego is playing on Monday night?
You’ns are the CBS fixture in Raleigh, too! Though opposite Panthers/Packers, or my choice, RZC.
I’m so Stockholm Syndrome I danced with joy when I saw the 7:3 split.
Doesn’t flex scheduling begin soon? Having the Cowboys and Eagles in what, their 8th combined Primetime game is kinda bullshit. As it stands, I’m gonna get Raiders/Stillers or, joy of joys, Slurs/Cheaters and then the 4 PM exercise in futility that is The Colts attempting their version of football against Denver. Might be a good weekend to invest in sleeping pills and cheap gin.
Christ, SF is the only team west of STL playing on Sunday afternoon and they still couldn’t pull more than a thumbprint in the west.
I do like how the ATL market is expanding to JAX for this game though so Jags fans can watch The Flow.
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Was listing Bears-Chargers as TNF a typo or a prediction of how the game plays out?
I don’t proofread these very much.
All the primetime games are TNF in spirit
Bears Chargers is about Tuesday Night Fucking, a gay bar reference, that’s what Shawn from Albuquerque (long time listener, first time caller) says anyway.