Do you ever wonder why certain NFL games are shown in certain cities? Do you wonder which game you or the majority of the country will get to see this week? For those of us who don't have the Sunday Ticket (giving that up was one of the toughest decisions I've ever made), this website is invaluable to learning more about how the decisions to show certain games are configured.
http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/
Points of note:
Local affiliation trumps all.
National game of interest usually carries.
Games involving your team's rivals (usually in division).
But then, there's a funny fourth category: where a star may have played high school or college football. There's always a shred of red in the map in Southern Mississippi, that carries Bret Favre's Packers games more reliably than Milwaukee. Knoxville, TN has an affinity for Peyton and the Colts. As Ian can tell you, you used to not go anywhere on a fall Sunday in Danville without seeing local-boy Tim Couch's Browns on TV (and he was just holding a clipboard!).
Anyway, hope you enjoy this an interesting and useful resource.
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That's interesting, because it confirms something that I've HATED about New York since I've moved here.
Every time a New York (read: New Jersey) team is not playing a game, everything else gets blocked out. Logically, I should have been able to watch the Cincy-KC debacle in the comfort of my own home today, but I couldn't, because NYC just runs ass-crap local programming instead. Literally, infomercials or news shows aimed at people in the city.
Seriously? I think the fact that the mob owns a shit-ton of bars has something to do with this.
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