Worst City for televised NFL

[panerd]

I have Sunday Ticket and I rarely have to watch the spoonfed local games but over the weekend I was at my brother's house in Columbia, MO for the Mizzou game (how bout them Tigers!?!) and I ended up being there into Sunday. His weekly choices consist of Kansas City Chiefs games, St. Louis Rams games, and then one more game. Is there any possible worse combination?

I am thinking maybe somewhere in mid-Ohio where you get the Bengals and Browns (and I am a Bengal fan before anyone gets too up in arms). Is there another city with a local player connection who just receives awful games? Maybe somewhere that gets Rams games and Falcon games. I can't top Columbia right now. Anyone worse? Where is the best city?

[tarcone]

I have Sunday Ticket and I rarely have to watch the spoonfed local games but over the weekend I was at my brother's house in Columbia, MO for the Mizzou game (how bout them Tigers!?!) and I ended up being there into Sunday. His weekly choices consist of Kansas City Chiefs games, St. Louis Rams games, and then one more game. Is there any possible worse combination?

I am thinking maybe somewhere in mid-Ohio where you get the Bengals and Browns (and I am a Bengal fan before anyone gets too up in arms). Is there another city with a local player connection who just receives awful games? Maybe somewhere that gets Rams games and Falcon games. I can't top Columbia right now. Anyone worse? Where is the best city?

Since you live in St Louis, you know the crappy cjhoices we get.

I got the Rams (cant stand them) for the early game. Then the Jets/Pats for the late game. Thats it. Crappy day.
Unfortunately my daughters play soccer on Sundays so the Sunday ticket would be a waste of money. It saddens me.

[Big Fo]

I don't live there but I imagine the Bay Area sucks for NFL on local channels, the 49ers and Raiders have been bad for years.

[thesloppy]

I live in Oregon, and we have been 'awarded' the Raiders as our AFC/CBS team, because of their proximity (a mere 600 miles), and the Seahawks on the NFC/FOX side. While the Seahawks have been good recently, they're not always entertaining, and half the time they're playing some other shlub from the NFC West, who promise to be even less entertaining, and nowhere near as good, whatever the time or place.

Worst of all, regardless of the quality of the Raiders or the Seahawks, anybody in Oregon who is a sports fan likely has a strong distaste for anything Washington OR California, due to the Pac-10 or the Trailblazers (our only 'real' sports in Oregon), so sticking us with the Raiders and Seahawks is almost a slap in the face...why wouldn't we just want the 'best' game every week? And the NFL probably thinks they're appeasing local fans.

[Rich1033]

Here in NW Ohio I get choices between the Lions on Fox and the Browns on CBS usually for the 1 pm game. Then if Im lucky and the Browns have a bye, I usually get the Bungles.

Now they Browns arent as bad as they once were, but still...

[kcchief19]

This season is shaping up to be a horrible viewing season for Kansas City, Columbia, probably Springfield and others. We get the Chiefs games on CBS and the Rams games on Fox. If CBS has a doubleheader we're stuck with an AFC West game, so we'll get more than our fair share of teams we hate. The best games we'll get are national games on Fox that aren't up against the Rams, which means a healthy dose of the Cowboys, thank God.

But when the Chiefs start getting blacked out, in most weeks we'll get the Rams for an early game and an AFC West game late. Yawn.

[stevew]

Whomever gets that Raiders/Niners block probably takes the cake.

I end up getting the Browns every week outta youngstown cause apparently I live in that market per DISH. If they would ban the dual local carrying by the cable companies(and cut off access to the steelers game), the youngstown affiliate would likely show the Steelers a bit more often.

[stevew]

Oh, yeah
God forbid I go a sunday double header without getting a fucking patriots game.

[Chief Rum]

I have Sunday Ticket and I rarely have to watch the spoonfed local games but over the weekend I was at my brother's house in Columbia, MO for the Mizzou game (how bout them Tigers!?!) and I ended up being there into Sunday. His weekly choices consist of Kansas City Chiefs games, St. Louis Rams games, and then one more game. Is there any possible worse combination?

I am thinking maybe somewhere in mid-Ohio where you get the Bengals and Browns (and I am a Bengal fan before anyone gets too up in arms). Is there another city with a local player connection who just receives awful games? Maybe somewhere that gets Rams games and Falcon games. I can't top Columbia right now. Anyone worse? Where is the best city?

You would think LA would be the best, with, supposedly, no ties to teams to take up spots, but the dumbass Raider fans who don't seem to get that the team left for Oakland force me to have to watch the most dysfunctional franchise in sports almost every NFL Sunday.

Fortunately, the Chargers are good now, so the fact we sometimes get them, too, doesn't hurt as much. Of course, when they sell out their games, which they sometimes don't (enough to raise the black out anyway).

[miked]

We get to see Atlanta, Carolina, Miami, and sometimes Jacksonville. That's right.

[Sgran]

Not to get off the point, but i think the 49ers will be 8-8 this year.

[ISiddiqui]

Yeah, but Carolina and Jacksonville aren't that bad (well, Jacksonville wasn't until this year)... and usually get the "big" game of the week, IIRC (like NYJ/NE this weekend... though personally I would have prefered SD/Den).

[sterlingice]

Here in NW Ohio I get choices between the Lions on Fox and the Browns on CBS usually for the 1 pm game. Then if Im lucky and the Browns have a bye, I usually get the Bungles.

Now they Browns arent as bad as they once were, but still...

Believe me, I know that the Chiefs and the Rams are no fun but this has to take the turd sandwich. If there were some way to get the Lions and Bengals, ouch. Unless there was some geographic nightmare of a market that got the Cardinals and Raiders- that might be even worse.

SI

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Meh, I just watch Mizzou on Saturday and mow the lawn during the Chiefs/Rams doubleheaders here in KC. :)

[fantom1979]

I, of course, get the Lions every week. Doesn't really matter who comes on at 4, once you've seen the Lions play, 4 to 7 pm is reserved for throwing up.

[Rizon]

The Bay Area ... a lot of the time the only Sunday games we get are the Niners and Raiders, and of course the night game.

[miked]

Yeah, but Carolina and Jacksonville aren't that bad (well, Jacksonville wasn't until this year)... and usually get the "big" game of the week, IIRC (like NYJ/NE this weekend... though personally I would have prefered SD/Den).

True, but Jax and Car aren't known for their exciting offenses. Although, we do get NO from time to time. This week wasn't terrible as we did get the Jets game.

[molson]

I live in Oregon, and we have been 'awarded' the Raiders as our AFC/CBS team, because of their proximity (a mere 600 miles), and the Seahawks on the NFC/FOX side. While the Seahawks have been good recently, they're not always entertaining, and half the time they're playing some other shlub from the NFC West, who promise to be even less entertaining, and nowhere near as good, whatever the time or place.

Worst of all, regardless of the quality of the Raiders or the Seahawks, anybody in Oregon who is a sports fan likely has a strong distaste for anything Washington OR California, due to the Pac-10 or the Trailblazers (our only 'real' sports in Oregon), so sticking us with the Raiders and Seahawks is almost a slap in the face...why wouldn't we just want the 'best' game every week? And the NFL probably thinks they're appeasing local fans.

All of that is countered by the fact that you get football at 10 AM. I miss Oregon (11 AM in Idaho isn't quite the same).

I think every single part of the country has a "local" teams in each conferences. Boise is assigned the Broncos and Seahawks, but it doesn't seem like a strict rule here (we were scheduled for Broncos/Chargers in the middle of the week, but it was switched to Pats/Jets by the end of the week).

[Subby]

Anybody that has to contend with the CBS HD signal every week has it bad.

[Abe Sargent]

I believe Mobile has Falcons and Saints, although usually one is hot while the other isn;t. Miami/Tampa isn;t exactly a winning combination right now. Tampa is stuck playing yucky teams with yucky players and coaches, although they do well occasionally, they are boring to watch.

[Abe Sargent]

I just realized that I have spent seven years of NFL watching with a Lions game almost every week, and I don;t even like the Lions. Ick.

[Abe Sargent]

I think I need to go bathe or something.

[korme]

Bengals, which is great until I realized how much I loathe everything about this team right now. I'm so depressed.

But, I suggest if anyone doesn't like their choices, just go to Bdubs. I went for Week 1, and the Bengals/Ravens, Lions/Falcons, Pats/Chiefs, Steelers/whoevertheydemolished, were all on at 1 pm. And basically if any other random fan walked in, there was a tv available to switch 'their' game to.