Unfortunately, the Texans play at the Raiders in Week 9 and it is a 3:15 PM CST kickoff. The Patriots/Colts game will kickoff at the same time. Since neither the Colts nor the Patriots are an NFC team the game cannot be broadcast on FOX (not likely that it would anyway since the local market for some reason cannot show any other NFL games opposite the Texans at the same time). So, we will be watching the Texans/Raiders on CBS instead of the Patriots/Colts. You would have thought that they would have made that game a Sunday or Monday nighter. Oh well.
I have no problem watching here in Indiana. Do you think CBS will give up the highest rated game of the season to Espn or NBC?
Of course they do, but they cann't break the rules. How else will teams like fins get any rating at all?
"We'd like to welcome everybody who just watched the Raiders defeat the Texans 9-7. This is Tom Hammond alongside Cris Collinsworth. We're here at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, with the score tied at 55 at the end of regulation. Payton Manning and Tom Brady both have six TD passes today. Here's a replay of that final TD pass with 30 seconds to go in regulation, a 57 yard flea flicker from Brady to Randy Moss..."
....Unless you live in NE of course. Although I always root for the NE teams to lose (Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics). It is true what they say about the sports bias up here.
I don't think it will be worth watching anyways, NE is going to blow the colts out of the building. This game will be over at halftime.
Hilarious! Luckily, I live in Georgia, so I will be seeing that Colts/Pats game. But I feel your pain on those 'regionals'!
