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Week 11 NFL broadcast maps
Cold, Hard Football Facts for November 16, 2007
Our weekly look at the colorful collage of NFL broadcasts, courtesy of the fine folks at the506.com.
Something of a curious day for the eyeball network. The 4 p.m. Steelers-Jets meeting draws the network’s No. 1 crew of Jim Nantz-Phil Simms, even though
- the network is giving the game only limited distribution and
- the Jets have about as much chance of wining as Barry Bonds does in the court of public opinion.
The San Diego-Jacksonville game at 1 p.m., meanwhile, has playoff implications for both teams, yet gets the networks No. 2 crew (Greg Gumbel-Dan Dierdorf). And the Kansas City-Indianapolis game, a rematch of last year’s wildcard meeting, gets probably the broadest distribution (even up in Indy obsessed New England), but the bottom-of-the-barrel booth team of Gus Johnson (who?) and Steve Tasker.
It’s a tribute to the power of Favre that Carolina-Green Bay draws some of the widest distribution of any game this Sunday afternoon. It will be show across a good two-thirds of the nation.
Giants-Lions, meanwhile, a game with great potential playoff impact featuring one of the best teams nobody has seen this year (Detroit) will be shown only in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest, along with (go figure) much of Texas and Oklahoma.
It’s been more than a decade since the Cowboys won a Super Bowl, or a playoff team, but nobody, with the possible exception of the record-chasing Patriots, gets more air time than America’s Team. Week after week, the Cowboys game, no matter who they’re playing, is among the most widely distributed games of the week.
The Washington-Dallas NFC West with playoff implications is no exception, being shown around a good 75 to 80 percent of the country.
Chicago-Seattle and the worst game of the year, St. Louis-San Francisco, get limited distribution in local markets.
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