We love the colorful hodge-podge we get each week in the map from the network not showing the double-header. This week, it’s CBS. The big Jacksonville-Indy game draws the No. 1 crew of Jim Nantz-Phil Simms. But the game, unfortunately, only gets limited distribution with so many other contests on the network’s schedule Sunday. Most interesting broadcast of the day: football fans in New England are being fed the Jags-Colts game, yet another sign of the region’s obsessions with the Patriots-Colts rivalry. In most years, the Jets-Dolphins game would have been the clear No. 1 choice to feed New England.
It’s a pathetic comment on the state of the NFC when Fox is forced to feed the Seattle-Philadelphia game, as it’s top broadcast of the time slot, to a good 75 percent of the nation. It could be worse, folks. You could be those poor souls forced to suffer through San Francisco-Carolina or Atlanta-St. Louis.
An easy call here: Giants-Bears, a good old-fashioned, old-school NFL battle with playoff implications and plenty of big-name players, earns the network’s No. 1 crew of Joe Buck-Troy Aikman, along with the widest distribution of any game on Sunday.
