Packers Get Flexed

[Guiness]

All home markets are protected from home game network double-headers. Fans in Green Bay and Milwaukee won't get an early Fox game and there will be no CBS game on in the late slot no matter who has the official double header. Home markets get two games max if the team is at home during the afternoon.

Outlying markets get the whole smorgasbord on Sunday, but are shut out of over the air ESPN and NFLN broadcasts

I'm sure that's some meaningful shit right there, but it's by me.

[pbmax]

I'm sure that's some meaningful shit right there, but it's by me.

Most people, on Sunday afternoons get three games. One Network has a double header and the other a single game, which can be either early or late.

Home markets, television markets designated home for a franchise by the League, are different. Green Bay gets to claim Milwaukee and Green Bay. In those markets, you never have the OTHER network broadcasting while the home team is playing (so for GB, you never see the CBS games in the same time slot as the Packers). You also never get the other end of the double header on you home network. So if Packers play the Giants at 3:00 PM local, there will not be a Fox game in Milwaukee or Green Bay at 12:00.

So in a home market, you usually only see two games a week on Sunday afternoon.

If you are really curious, they cover it all here in ever more excruciating detail: http://506sports.com/nfl/

[Pugger]

I won't be surprised if the flex the Atlanta game also.

[Fritz]

Way to 'splain it, PB!