NFL Week 6 Coverage Map Analysis

NFL Week 6 Coverage Map Analysis - 2023

The incredible people at 506 Sports make an NFL TV coverage map every week. I enjoy the minutiae of sports more than actual sports in most cases, and I love geography, so this one of my favorite related things to look at. I've been sharing with a group chat and adding some of own highlights and analysis. The length of this endeavor has now exceeded the socially acceptable limit for a post in a group chat, so it's going to live here for as long as I remember to write it. This is probably the least interesting set of maps since I started doing this.

This week's map post can be found here: 506 Sports NFL Week 6 Map

Bye: Green Bay and Pittsburgh

America's Teams and Divisions

The Cowboys (Monday) and Chiefs (Thursday), who typically rule the late afternoon slate on one or both networks, are both on national TV this week.

So are the Giants (Sunday night), but the Eagles are the geographical champs of the afternoon games, so the American will get every helping they want of the NFC East (except for Washington, but, eh, whatever). Miami gets Philly/Jets instead of Bucs. Florida is so weird.

Miscellaneous Highlights (The largest category because individual titles would get pretty pedantic.)

Seattle-Cincinnati is a national broadcast, something unfathomable to me, who grew up relatively close to Cincinnati in the 90s and 00s. Louisville gets the Colts instead of the Bengals. This doesn't seem consistent week to week.

Central Alabama gets to watch Tua this week.

North Florida gets Jax, South Florida Gets Miami. Where do Florida panhandle allegiances lie? Jags? Bucs? Falcons? Packers/Steelers/Cowboys?

The Houston/New Orleans Gulf Coast Showdown (trademark pending?) will be watched mostly by the Gulf Coast. Plus New Mexico!

CBS has Nantz and Romo on New England/Las Vegas but is only showing it to those markets, the Bay Area and the NFC cities with an early home team game.

Washington/Atlanta on CBS! Maybe this happens more often than I realize. This is at least the second wrong conference game on CBS/FOX.

STL-Kroenke Debacle Watch

Only Southern California, Arizona and Eugene, OR get Rams/Cards. St. Louis does not get the Rams.

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