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Is it time for the NFL's television rules to be overhauled?

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No matter what somebody will complain about the Giants being bumped. Had the game been on Fox the Patriots would get bumped.

Had the Giants been good this year there might be more reason to complain. The Patriots will get top billing being champs and a better team. CT is in one of those markets that gets squeezed usually once a year when both teams are on the same network. Now nobody would be complaining when it's a Jets game getting blocked out for the Patriots.
 
actually its been almost 3 years since this happened....last time was week 6 2016 where both were on same network (CBS) and same thing happened. Pats on in all of New England
 
My comments about them changing the rules so they can air more than one game came from the fact that Major League Baseball changed the rules several years ago. Originally when FOX had both the Yankees Game and The Redsox Game on Saturdays, WTIC-TV would alternate throughout the season. One week they would show The Yankees Game. The next week they would show the Redsox Game. Now that the rules have been changed on the rare occasion FOX has both teams on Saturday, WTIC-TV would air one game on their station and the other on sister station CW 20 WCCT.

Note: FOX 61/CW 20 share the rights to the Free-to-Air Mets and Yankees Games in Hartford along with the rights to Pre Season Giants Football. In the past CW20 aired the preseason games. This year FOX 61 aired 3 of the PreSeason Games and CW20 aired only the Giants PreSeason Game that aired at the same time the FOX Network had a preseason game.
 
MarcB said:
My comments about them changing the rules so they can air more than one game came from the fact that Major League Baseball changed the rules several years ago. Originally when FOX had both the Yankees Game and The Redsox Game on Saturdays, WTIC-TV would alternate throughout the season. One week they would show The Yankees Game. The next week they would show the Redsox Game. Now that the rules have been changed on the rare occasion FOX has both teams on Saturday, WTIC-TV would air one game on their station and the other on sister station CW 20 WCCT.

Note: FOX 61/CW 20 share the rights to the Free-to-Air Mets and Yankees Games in Hartford along with the rights to Pre Season Giants Football. In the past CW20 aired the preseason games. This year FOX 61 aired 3 of the PreSeason Games and CW20 aired only the Giants PreSeason Game that aired at the same time the FOX Network had a preseason game.
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To what extent is metro Hartford split between the NYC and Boston fansheds?

ixnay
 
ixnay said:
To what extent is metro Hartford split between the NYC and Boston fansheds?

ixnay
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I've never seen NFL figures, but when baseball fans are (unscientifically) surveyed by media outlets, the split is usually close to 55-45 Yankees. The problem is Red Sox numbers go up sharply north and east of Hartford, Yankees the same to the south and west. Towns that are considered southern suburbs of Hartford lean Yankees, northern suburbs of Hartford and southern suburbs of Springfield lean Red Sox. And the New Haven area is solidly Yankees -- the difference is noticeable even in places only 10-miles apart.

Football is complicated by the fact that the Patriots made a big show about moving to Hartford, then pulled out when Bob Kraft got what he wanted back in Foxborough -- a new stadium. A steam plant in Hartford that refused to let itself be eliminated to make way for a Hartford stadium was given as an excuse -- and the thing is still there -- but suspicions linger that Kraft was playing Connecticut all along and would have found a way to back out in any case. As that affair fades into history, though, the success of the Pats since 2000 has definitely grown the Hartford fan base, although New Haven and points west remain Giants country. The Jets, like the Mets, are virtual non-entities in Connecticut. They might as well be in Wyoming.
 
Don CT said:
It was on Fox the last time wasn't it?
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nope CBS

CIN @ NE
BAL @ NYG

previous to that (again CBS) was week 3 2014
OAK @ NE
HOU @ NYG

you have to go back to week 3 2013 season where they both were on FOX
TB @ NE
NYG @ CAR

Hartford went Giants...the rest of New England went Pats
 
It *could* get a little interesting next week, if the Panthers-Cardinals or Giants-Bucs games go to OT on Fox.....with the Emmys to follow. Could we see the first ever emmy delay due to the NFL?
 
danderson6500 said:
It *could* get a little interesting next week, if the Panthers-Cardinals or Giants-Bucs games go to OT on Fox.....with the Emmys to follow. Could we see the first ever emmy delay due to the NFL?
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doubt it. FOX has the singleheader game next week so the 2 late games start at 3:05 CDT...that gives them 4 hours to get the game in.
 
I'm kind of shocked that the Tampa Bay @ LA Rams game is airing in such random locations? Especially Boston market - completely bizarre they get TB/Rams instead of Chiefs, main competition in the AFC. But WFXT and WNAC don't want to compete with Pats-Bills. If they aired the Chiefs it would be "ratings suicide" for their stations
 
danderson6500 said:
I'm kind of shocked that the Tampa Bay @ LA Rams game is airing in such random locations? Especially Boston market - completely bizarre they get TB/Rams instead of Chiefs, main competition in the AFC. But WFXT and WNAC don't want to compete with Pats-Bills. If they aired the Chiefs it would be "ratings suicide" for their stations
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why did you ask a question when you answered it yourself?

In most areas the singleheader network usually goes in the opposite timeslot of the "local team" game. If the team is playing at home no game can go opposite it on the SH network. So by default Buffalo, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami and Indy MUST show a late FOX game. Boston, Cleveland, Oakland, and Nashville as the road teams CAN show a game opposite it but usually doesn't.
OKC is "cowtowning" for Kyler Murray who played at OU
 
unclehonkey said:
why did you ask a question when you answered it yourself?

In most areas the singleheader network usually goes in the opposite timeslot of the "local team" game. If the team is playing at home no game can go opposite it on the SH network. So by default Buffalo, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami and Indy MUST show a late FOX game. Boston, Cleveland, Oakland, and Nashville as the road teams CAN show a game opposite it but usually doesn't.
OKC is "cowtowning" for Kyler Murray who played at OU
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Kowtowing is the word, unless you're intending to poke fun at poor Oklahoma City. Besides, isn't Fort Worth the only true "Cow Town"?
 
CTListener said:
Kowtowing is the word, unless you're intending to poke fun at poor Oklahoma City. Besides, isn't Fort Worth the only true "Cow Town"?
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no we call it cowtowning when an affiliate shows a game based on a player that went to college in that area (mainly QB) instead of a regional game or the main game

examples this year so far
week 1
Cheyenne CBS showed Buffalo in a sea of KC/Jax (Josh Allen went to Wyoming)
Most of OK showed Cleveland instead of KC/Jax (Baker Mayfield went to OU)
week 2
Cheyenne & Casper CBS showing Buffalo in a sea of KC/Oak (Josh Allen)
Louisville FOX showing Baltimore instead of Cincy (Lamar Jackson)
Lubbock CBS showing KC/Oak instead of Houston (Mahomes)
week 3
Louisville CBS showing Baltimore instead of Atl/Indy or Cincy/Buffalo (Lamar)
week 4
Most of OK CBS showing Cleveland instead of NE/Buff (Baker)
OKC FOX showing Seattle/AZ late game instead of KC/Detroit (Kyler Murray)
Spokane CBS showing Jax game instead of Minn/Chicago (Gardner Minshew went to Washington State in Pullman)
 
unclehonkey said:
no we call it cowtowning when an affiliate shows a game based on a player that went to college in that area (mainly QB) instead of a regional game or the main game

examples this year so far
week 1
Cheyenne CBS showed Buffalo in a sea of KC/Jax (Josh Allen went to Wyoming)
Most of OK showed Cleveland instead of KC/Jax (Baker Mayfield went to OU)
week 2
Cheyenne & Casper CBS showing Buffalo in a sea of KC/Oak (Josh Allen)
Louisville FOX showing Baltimore instead of Cincy (Lamar Jackson)
Lubbock CBS showing KC/Oak instead of Houston (Mahomes)
week 3
Louisville CBS showing Baltimore instead of Atl/Indy or Cincy/Buffalo (Lamar)
week 4
Most of OK CBS showing Cleveland instead of NE/Buff (Baker)
OKC FOX showing Seattle/AZ late game instead of KC/Detroit (Kyler Murray)
Spokane CBS showing Jax game instead of Minn/Chicago (Gardner Minshew went to Washington State in Pullman)
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Interesting. Has Boston ever gotten a Falcons game instead of a main or regional game because Matt Ryan went to Boston College? Or a game featuring any of the many teams Harvard alum Ryan Fitzpatrick has played for?
 
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