OT: Which NFL Team Are You Stuck Watching Every Sunday?

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I don't resent the Cowboys' popularity like I do the Packers. Tiny market but massively popular all over the country. It seems that even non-Packers fans like the Packers as their second favorite team, and I have no idea why. I fail to see any of the appeal at all.
 

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I'm stuck in Hell between the Cowboys and Chiefs telecasts. Thankfully I can afford Sunday Ticket from Directv so it's all Bears all the time.

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I hate virtually every other team in the league except for the Bears. so... I'm glad I'm still in the area.
 

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I remember when one of the networks (I think it was CBS) let Chicago area viewers call in to vote on which game they wanted to see. I don't know if they did that in other markets or why it stopped.
Instead of restarting that program, they should just get around to broadcasting all the games for free. How hard can it be? The god damn cable company has like 800 shopping channels included with your subscription. Or if they can't make it happen on TV then do it online.
 

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We were back a couple years ago. My wife shit a brick when she found how cheap it was. You ever go to arnie's? Have i asked you that before?
 

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If I was Fox or CBS I would be pissed about the NFL RedZone network.

Old days, typical Sunday: Watch the Bears at noon then whatever was on at 3.
Now: Bears until I puke or 3, which ever comes first, then RedZone.
If the Bears are on bye, Sun or Mon night then RedZone 12 till 6:30.

I never watch any network noon or 3 games, except the Bears.
 

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Salt Lake City here....the fucking Seahawks.....every week the damn Seahawks
 

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Every team in the NFC East and AFC North
 

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Being in New Mexico I am in the middle of the Cowboys-Broncos hell with a little splash of Raiders and 49ers love just for the sake of it being crazy Albuquerque.

Every week you get either a Cowboys game a Broncos game or both. I do remember when I moved from Arizona back to New Mexico how it kept both the Local Arizona and local Albuquerque Channels for a week or so and it got me thinking that if I could figure out a way to tell my DirecTV DVR that I was in Chicago instead of New Mexico I could just get the local games and would not have to pay for the ticket. That would be friggin awesome!

I remember that you used to be able to pick up other local markets, I want to say this was with Dish Network in the early 2000's but you had to know how to find them.

Anyway the Cowboy and Bronco leg humpers are everywhere out here. With no one else to cheer for the locals had to pick someone. Lots of Cubs and Bulls fans though because people grew up with WGN.
 

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Since I attend Mizzou which is right in the center of Missouri, I'd be stuck with Rams and Chiefs. Luckily for me I have student-discounted Sunday Ticket and the Bears play both Missouri teams this year.
 

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I live right in between Buffalo and Detroit, so those games are on all time.
 

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I don't resent the Cowboys' popularity like I do the Packers. Tiny market but massively popular all over the country. It seems that even non-Packers fans like the Packers as their second favorite team, and I have no idea why. I fail to see any of the appeal at all.

People like teams that win and for the last 20 years or so the Packers have more often then not had a winning record and made it to the playoffs. Probably also has something to do with the Packers having back to back top 5 QBs.
 

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This is why I buy NFL Sunday ticket every year. I really like having the option of watching whichever game I want to watch not what CBS or FOX decides they want to show in my area.
 

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In 2005 for some reason the bears were on almost every weekend in Albuquerque. Literally saw 11 games on local TV.

We would get together to watch games and grill out and my friends (Vikings niners broncos and charger fans) all were legitimately pissed by the end of the season. It was dumb, ridiculously awesome dumb luck.

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FOOTBALL ON TV 7:47 AM OCT 16, 2015
Which NFL Team Are You Stuck Watching Every Sunday?

By KIRK GOLDSBERRY

Like millions of other Americans, I watch the NFL on a regular basis. However, just like millions of other viewers, most Sundays I am not sure which games will be on my television. I live in Austin, so there’s a good chance I’ll get to see the Cowboys and Texans, but beyond that, there’s no way for me to know what to expect. Because of the nature of the league’s broadcast deal, and the realities of “regional coverage,” every Sunday the league’s national broadcast partners Fox and CBS assign different games to different markets, based on both regional and national interest. So unless you have a premium NFL television package, your location greatly affects your viewing experiences. Folks in Wisconsin get to watch their Packers every week; folks in northern Florida “get” to see the Jags.

For years, the strange geographic structures that underpinned league broadcasts were almost entirely obscured from the average consumer. People would turn on their TVs expecting to see one game only to be disappointed by another. In 2005, one of these chronically disappointed viewers was J.P. Kirby, a Patriots fan and self-described “map nerd.” “The station’s site said one thing, the guide in my newspaper said another, and what ended up showing was another game completely, and it wasn’t the Pats game,” Kirby, 32, a web designer in Fredericton, New Brunswick, told me by email. “I was pissed and figured there had to be a better way to figure this out.” Kirby had an idea to expose the hidden geographic patterns that control our Sunday afternoons: He created a project dedicated to mapping out the NFL’s weekly broadcast schedule.

Today, Kirby is still meticulously scanning the Web every week of the season to find football broadcast schedules for different markets around the United States. He then maps them out for all the world to see on 506sports.com.

1 Here is one of his maps for this coming week. It’s a simple map that shows which regions see which late game on CBS on Sunday afternoon.
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As you can see, the country is split between those seeing San Diego at Green Bay (red), those seeing Baltimore at San Francisco (blue), and Washington state residents seeing Seattle host Carolina. Displaced Seahawks or Panthers fans in New York City won’t get to see their favorite team on local television this week; instead, they’ll be shown the Chargers-Packers game.

But while Kirby’s project does a good job of visualizing the spatial coverage of NFL broadcasts each week, that’s not all it does; the archive of data he’s compiled over the years also helps us understand larger geographic patterns in NFL television. His data reveals which teams we see most and least often each season and across multiple seasons. It’s a reflection of both regional broadcasting choices for Sunday day games and national programming selections for the night games on Thursdays, Sundays and Mondays2. The choices matter throughout the U.S. and even outside of it: Kirby, who lives an hour from Maine, has access to U.S. networks, which is why he started collecting the data.

This map depicts which franchise has been the most commonly seen in different parts of the continental U.S. over the past six seasons.3

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We expect the map to look like that: Georgians want to see Falcons games, for instance, while Michiganders want to see Lions games. However, things get a bit more unpredictable when we map the second most commonly televised team in each area.

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There’s a lot going on up there. With the exceptions of Carolina, Cleveland and San Diego, every team is the second most televised team somewhere. It’s strange to see Minnesota mostly covered by Packer Green and the whole of Louisiana colored Cowboy blue, but there’s some obvious regional logic there. The same goes for the vast area colored by Oakland black and Houston red: Someone has to play second fiddle to the 49ers and the Cowboys, and another team from the same state is the obvious candidate. You can’t say the same about the Patriots being aired so often in the Carolinas, the random pocket of Eagles’ ubiquity on televisions in southern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas, or the frequency with which Giants games are televised in greater Las Vegas.

Still, the main takeaway from this map is that them Cowboys are on TV a lot all over the place; they are by far the most broadcast team around the country. Over the past six seasons, they were either the first or second most commonly broadcast team in 95 of just over 200 markets around the U.S.,4 a dominance that appears on the West Coast in markets including Seattle and Los Angeles, and on the East Coast in Jacksonville, Florida, and Greenville, North Carolina.
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Between 2009 and 2014, every Nielsen market in the U.S. saw at least an average of nine of the Cowboys’ 16 games each season, by far the most in the league. Just about the only time the Cowboys aren’t dominating the airwaves is during bye weeks like this one.

While it’s safe to say the Cowboys rule the national broadcast scene, they are by no means the only team that we all see on a regular basis. Below are the 16 most televised teams in the NFL.5

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Meanwhile, the Bills, Browns, Jags and Bucs are the teams broadcast least often nationwide. A vast majority of the country has seen these teams less than three times per year over the past six regular seasons.6 But as you can see, despite that meager nationwide showing, these teams are still broadcast often near their home cities.
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We ranked teams by their share of TV markets, but the picture doesn’t change much if we weight the markets by number of homes with televisions, to get an estimate of the potential number of viewers of each team.7 Even after accounting for the Giants’ mammoth home New York City market, which has roughly one of every 15 TV homes in the country, Dallas is still king.

The NFL Sunday Ticket package exists for a reason: Many times people would rather watch a game other than the ones prescribed to them during regional coverage. Take it from someone who lived in Michigan when the Lions went 0-16: Sometimes regional loyalties subject us to terrible television experiences. But as long as the NFL’s broadcast deals are structured as they are now, the programming choices dictated by these loyalties aren’t going to change. Thanks to Kirby and 506sports.com, at least we can see we’re not the only ones subjected to mediocre games.

And that hasn’t changed this year. Although our maps only run through last season, Kirby confirms that the most broadcast team in 2015 is the Cowboys. “Even at 2-3, the networks are still in love with them,” Kirby said.

Correction, 10:45 a.m., Oct. 16: An earlier version of this article incorrectly characterized the most televised NFL teams in greater Las Vegas. The Giants are the second-most-televised team but are not interrupting the dominance of the Cowboys, who are the most televised team in the region.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-nfl-team-are-you-stuck-watching-every-sunday/

I watch the Bears game and then my tv doesn't come off the red zone channel so i can watch all my fantasy players.
 

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People like teams that win and for the last 20 years or so the Packers have more often then not had a winning record and made it to the playoffs. Probably also has something to do with the Packers having back to back top 5 QBs.

Winning is likely the key. Not just that people would rather follow a winner than a loser. As shown, the winning teams are generally televised more. It's fun to be able to watch a team you are a fan of. When I was a kid I became a fan of Duke basketball. They were on TV almost every weekend. I knew all of their players, they were easy to follow. It certainly didn't hurt that they almost always won.

Regarding the Packers, Maybe part of the allure is the small town in a big city market. Maybe it is the 13 NFL championships. I'm a Packer fan so I obviously have some bias to Bearmick's questioning the following of the Packers. But what makes the other 31 teams more appealing?
 

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Winning is likely the key. Not just that people would rather follow a winner than a loser. As shown, the winning teams are generally televised more. It's fun to be able to watch a team you are a fan of. When I was a kid I became a fan of Duke basketball. They were on TV almost every weekend. I knew all of their players, they were easy to follow. It certainly didn't hurt that they almost always won.

Regarding the Packers, Maybe part of the allure is the small town in a big city market. Maybe it is the 13 NFL championships. I'm a Packer fan so I obviously have some bias to Bearmick's questioning the following of the Packers. But what makes the other 31 teams more appealing?

Jesus christ, a packers and duke fan? How often do you get punched in the face? At least twice daily, right?
 

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