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NBC on KC: "3 SB appearances in 4 years...the Patriots are the only other team to do it since 2000" Nice...convenient they didn't go back further, to Buffalo (and the Cowboys).

The problem is most of the time the lead late game gets the highest ratings of any slot, even more than SNF. So the networks try to steer as much attention into that game. Even Sunday Ticket gets in the game and advocates for the national game since they want to force viewers into purchasing their plan. They can't if the game is being shown when it isn't required to by the rules. That, and the fact that LA is not a football town.

While the rest of the country gets good late games in PHL-NE and GB-CHI, I, and most of my fellow west coasters, get stuck with LV-DEN and LAR-SEA. Oh joy.

Yeah that is a good observation. New Orleans is showing CAR-ATL against the home team TEN-NO game for three reasons I suspect: 1. They are both division rivals. 2. The whole area is SEC county and they want to see how Bryce Young does. 3. New Orleans, being in the deep south and NFC, probably doesn't care much about AFC north teams, at least this early in the season.

UPDATE: The FOX-Early map switched on Thursday from SF-PIT to CAR-ATL for the following DMA's: Jackson, Meridian, and Hattiesburg, MS Knoxville, TN Monroe, LA The map in the original post has been updated. These reason for this switch is because this is SEC territory, and they are interested in Bryce Young from Alabama.

https://www.footballzebras.com/2023/06/officiating-crews-for-the-2023-season/ Position - Name - No. - 2022 crew - Yrs. Exp. - College - Occupation Referee - Carl Cheffers - No. 51 - 24 yrs. (16 as a referee) - California-Irvine - Sales Manager Umpire - Brandon Cruse - No. 22 - same crew - 2 yrs. - South Dakota School of Mines & Technology - Management Consultant Down Judge - Mike Carr - No. 63 - same crew - 7 yrs. - Wisconsin - Athletic Director Line Judge - Tom Eaton - No. 87 - Rogers crew - 4 yrs. - Central Florida - Fiscal Manager Field Judge - Nate Jones - No. 33 - same crew - 5 yrs. - Rutgers - Firefighter/EMT (former NFL player) Side Judge - Eugene Hall - No. 103 - same crew - 10 yrs. - North Texas - Federal Agent Back Judge - Martin Hankins - No. 133 - no crew - 1 yr. - [unknown] - [unknown] Repay Official - Kevin Brown - No. N/A - same crew - 5 yrs. - Purdue - Retired Air Traffic Controller Replay Assistant - Karlton Derrick - No. N/A - same crew - 2 yrs. - Stanford - [unknown]

I didn't get to see what the original title was. But "OP" stands for "original post" (i.e., the first post in the thread). Also, many don't know how to post a twitter post so it shows in the post. It's different on a phone and a computer, so I understand it can be hard. I'm not referring to anyone, but that is just the way it is.

PFT has Miami, the Jets, and even Jacksonville ranked ahead of us. SMH.

Awesome. I will update!

There are tons of loyal fans in the UK like you, so I am happy to help. Let me know if you, or anybody else, sees anything wrong. [For example, I had to lookup time zones in the UK yesterday to figure out the difference between "BST" and "GMT"! And I had to learn what "fixture" meant in British English.]

[UPDATE: FOX-Early map updated Thursday. Map below has been updated. See also my post below for changes.] [UPDATE 2: FOX-Early map updated Friday. Map below has been updated. See also my post below for changes.] [UPDATE 3: CBS-Late map updated Friday. Map below has been updated. See also my post below for changes.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2023&wk=1 [UK listings near the bottom] "September 10, 2023 All listings are unofficial and subject to change. Check back often for updates." NFL Week 1 2023 - September 10, 2023 NATIONAL BROADCASTS: NFL Kickoff - SNF - NBC Thursday, September 7 - 8:20 PM ET: Detroit at Kansas City Mike Tirico, Chris Collinsworth, Melissa Stark SNF - NBC Sunday, September 10 - 8:20 PM ET: Dallas at New York Giants Mike Tirico, Chris Collinsworth, Melissa Stark MNF - ESPN/ABC/ESPN2/ESPN+ Monday, September 11 - 8:15 PM ET: Buffalo at New York Jets Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters [ManningCast on ESPN2 and ESPN+] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Both CBS and FOX get a doubleheader Week 1 (and also Week 18).] CBS Early Sunday, September 10 - 1 PM ET: █ Red (including Alaska and Hawaii): Cincinnati at Cleveland: (2) Ian Eagle, Charles Davis, Evan Washburn █ Blue: Tampa Bay at Minnesota (4) Andrew Catalon, Tiki Barber, Matt Ryan, AJ Ross █ Green: Houston at Baltimore (5) Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta, Aditi Kinkhabwala █ Yellow (Yellow): Tennessee at New Orleans (7) Chris Lewis, Jason McCourty, Ross Tucker, Amanda Guerra ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBS Late Sunday, September 10 - 4:25 PM ET: █ Red (including Alaska): Philadelphia at New England (1) Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, Tracy Wolfson █ Blue (including Hawaii): Miami at Los Angeles Chargers (3) Kevin Harlan, Trent Green, Melanie Collins █ Green: Las Vegas at Denver (6) Tom McCarthy, James Lofton, Jay Feely, Tiffany Blackmon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOX Early Sunday, September 10 - 1 PM ET: █ Red (including Alaska and Hawaii): San Francisco at Pittsburgh (2) Joe Davis, Daryl Johnston, Pam Oliver █ Blue: Arizona at Washington (3) Adam Amin, Mark Schlereth, Kristina Pink █ Green: Jacksonville at Indianapolis Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma, Shannon Spake █ Yellow (Yellow): Carolina at Atlanta (6) Chris Myers, Robert Smith, Jen Hale ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOX Late Sunday, September 10 - 4:25 PM ET: █ Red: Green Bay at Chicago (1) Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen, Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi █ Blue (including Alaska and Hawaii): Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Kevin Kugler, Mark Sanchez, Laura Okmin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UK: https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/12118/12950824/nfl-2023-season-live-on-sky-sports-kansas-city-chiefs-miami-dolphins-new-york-jets-and-san-francisco-49ers-in-action-across-opening-three-weeks https://www.nfl.com/news/where-to-watch-the-nfl-in-2023-in-the-uk NFL Kickoff - SNF Friday, September 8 - 1:20 AM BST: Detroit at Kansas City Sky Sports NFL and Showcase Sunday Early Game Sunday, September 10 - 6 PM BST: San Francisco at Pittsburgh Sky Sports NFL and Part Sky Sports Main Event [Neil Reynolds and Phoebe Schecter are anchoring the studios live from Acrisure Stadium] [Phoebe Schecter is a former Buffalo Bills coach!] Sunday Late Game Sunday, September 10 - 9:25 PM BST: Miami at Los Angeles Chargers Sky Sports NFL [Hannah Wilkes and Jason Bell are anchoring from the Sky Studios in London] SNF Monday, September 11 - 1:20 AM BST: Dallas at New York Giants Sky Sports NFL and Sky Sports Main Event MNF Tuesday, September 12 - 1:15 AM BST: Buffalo at New York Jets Sky Sports NFL, Sky Sports Main Event, and Channel 5 [Channel 5 broadcasters: Kirsten Watson, Maurice Jones-Drew, Gregg Rosenthal] NFL Redzone hosted by Scott Hanson is also available in the UK on Sundays beginning at 6 PM BST on Sky Sports Mix [thanks to @BritBill for mentioning this!]: https://www.nfl.com/news/where-to-watch-the-nfl-in-2023-in-the-uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NFL Gamepass - DAZN: NFL RedZone is also available on DAZN: https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/news/american-football/nfl-game-pass-international-on-dazn-how-to-watch-live-games/214xfjy73nnw1o2olstv9ks5x ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bye Week: none ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is a sad day for his family, friends, and Bills fans. I also just need to mention Mike Williams is not to be confused with Mike Williams, the OT, whom the Bills drafted 4th overall in 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Williams_(offensive_lineman) Or the Mike Willams, also a WR, who played for Detroit, Oakland, Tennessee, and Seattle in the oughts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Williams_(wide_receiver,_born_1984)

Let's kick a guy while he's down and secretly love doing it. But hey, that's what trolls do. Someday maybe the mods here will do the right thing.

Just post the link without the question mark and following stuff at the end of it.

Tentatively, these are the Sunday, September 10 games for Buffalo TV market (DMA) on zap2it, WIVB, and WUTV: https://tvlistings.zap2it.com/ https://www.wivb.com/tv-listings/ https://wutv29.com/station/schedule WIVB Channel 4 Buffalo (CBS): 1 PM - Cincinnati at Cleveland 4:25 PM - Philadelphia at New England WUTV Channel 29 (or Spectrum Channel 6) Buffalo (FOX): 1 PM - San Francisco at Pittsburgh 4:25 PM - Green Bay at Chicago [I'm not going to look up all the other area markets as there are 210 DMA's total! (doing so would be @YoloinOhioesque). I've spent way too much time posting here today, but the late games on both networks are the lead games, so they should be on most. Either you can check yourselves if you're curious, or just wait until Wednesday.] But decisions, decisions (if I lived in Buffalo). SF-PIT will be the better early game, but of course we want to see what Cincy does as Cleveland always plays them tough. And for the late game, I want to see what Hack Jones does, but Love vs. Fields also excites me, as well as Edmunds' performance.

These have been gathered from the NFL's article below, NFL insiders, and Michael Mulvihill (X @mulvihill79) of Fox Sports. https://www.nfl.com/schedules/flexible-scheduling-procedures Flexing to SNF: For Sunday Night Football, flexing may be used up to twice between Weeks 5-10, and at the NFL's discretion during Weeks 11-17. For Weeks 5-13, there must be a notice of at least 12 days before the game. For Weeks 14-17, the notice is at least 6 days before the game. Flexing to MNF: For Monday Night Football, flexing may be used at the NFL's discretion in Weeks 12-17 with a notice of at least 12 days before the game. Flexing to TNF: For Thursday Night Football, flexing may be used up to twice between Weeks 13-17. The flex window notice is at least 28 days before the game. Teams can only be flexed into TNF once. Week 18: As in prior seasons, for Week 18, the final weekend of the season, the scheduling of the Saturday, Sunday afternoon, and the Sunday night games is not assigned. The schedule for Week 18 will be announced no later than 6 days prior to that week's Saturday game (January 6, 2024). Flexing between Sunday early and late games: Sunday afternoon games may also be moved between 1:00 p.m. and 4:05 p.m. or 4:25 p.m. ET. Primetime: Teams can be shown on primetime a maximum of 7 games, not counting week 18. Protecting Games: There are no more “protected lists” per se, but the NFL will consult with CBS and FOX (as well as the receiving network NBC, ESPN, or Prime) regarding the schedule when it comes to protecting games and optimizing the schedule. Generally, CBS and FOX will get to keep their top game of the week, but they don’t need to send in a list weeks ahead of time anymore. Notes: Only Sunday afternoon games (or those listed as TBD) are eligible to be moved to Sunday night, Monday night, or Thursday night, in which case the initially scheduled Sunday, Monday, or Thursday night game would be moved to Sunday afternoon. So, for example, there can be no moving of games between SNF and MNFand vice-versa. The game that has been tentatively scheduled for Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, or Thursday Night Football during the Flex Scheduling Windows will generally be listed at 8:20 p.m. ET, 8:15 p.m. ET, and 8:15 p.m. ET, respectively. The majority of games on Sundays will typically be listed at 1:00 p.m. ET during the Flex Scheduling Windows except for games played in Pacific or Mountain time zones, which will be listed at 4:05 or 4:25 p.m. ET. During the Flex Scheduling Windows, the games initially scheduled for Sunday Night Football (on NBC), Monday Night Football (ESPN or ABC), and Thursday Night Football (on Amazon Prime) are tentatively scheduled and subject to change. Fans and ticket holders must be aware that NFL games in the Flex Scheduling Windows are subject to change generally at least 12 days in advance (and at least 6 days in advance for Sundays in Weeks 14-17) and should plan accordingly.

I can't stand the guy, but his prediction was so outlandish, I had to post it here to embarrass him (probably his goal, actually). I understand homerism, but this was going a little too far.

Not my prediction, but Nick Wright predicts the Kansas City Chiefs will go 20-0 this year: