Here's our weekly look at the colorful collage of NFL broadcast maps, courtesy of our cyber-friends at the506.com.

 

There are few games this week pitting two playoff contenders, so TV-favorite Indy, in a home game against Houston, gets the widest distribution of any broadcast in this time slot. It will be seen throughout the middle of the country, along with up in New England where interest in Patriots arch-rival Colts runs high.

 

New England’s chase for perfection is officially a national phenomenon. Just look at this week’s CBS late-game map, where Fins-Pats, a game that by all accounts is one of the biggest mismatches of this year and any other year, draws the widest distribution of any game this week, along with the eyeball network’s No. 1 crew of Jim Nantz-Phil Simms.

 

Brett Favre fever runs high, too, with the Green Bay-Chicago game attracting the Fox network’s widest distribution and the No. 1 broadcast team of Joe Buck-Troy Aikman. Curiosity of the week: Houston has a problem, not to mention much of Ohio and Indiana, all of which are being fed the Tampa Bay-San Francisco game for no apparent reason. Atlanta-Arizona draws among the most narrow distribution of any game we’ve seen this season.