Our weekly look at the patchwork of NFL broadcasts, courtesy of the folks at a completely random site called the506.com.
Most of the nation will get the Peyton Manning-Vince Young QB bonanza, brought to you by Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf.
About as clean as these maps ever get: Jets at Ravens in the Northeast (and in Knoxville … go figure); Chiefs at Bears in the middle of the country; and Raiders at Broncos out west.
Ahh, this is more like it … a nearly unintelligible rainbow hodgepodge of seven different games that you could pore over for hours trying to figure it all out. For example, why is the Seattle at Arizona national snoozer being shown around Memphis and in pockets of northwestern and northeastern Ohio? And why are San Diego football fans being subjected to the tasteless New Orleans at Tampa contest as an appetizer before the big primetime Chargers-Patriots battle? If you know the answers,
let us know, too.
Most of the big Northeastern and Midwestern markets will get the 1 p.m. showdown between the Packers and Giants at the Meadowlands, with the No. 1 crew of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.