We’ve got a coverage map of this week’s game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions, and a good portion of the country will welcome this big matchup between these two NFC North rivals.
Here’s a look at the map, brought to you (as always) by the folks from 506 Sports. The Vikings/Lions game is represented by the red area.
As you can see, most of the northern half of the United States will get this one, except for a few places for reasons I’m not sure. The green spots inside the red area represent the late game (since CBS has a doubleheader this week) between the Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams. So, I think places like Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Baltimore, and Jacksonville will get that game instead because of. . .I don’t know. . .AFC conference interest? I mean, the Chargers are terrible so that doesn’t really make sense, but I can’t think of any other good reason, honestly. This seems random to me, but if someone knows more about how these things work than I do, they can explain it in the comments.
Regardless, most of the northern US will get this game, as well as parts of New England and the Miami area. Vikings are still, apparently, big in Alaska. For the person who complained on social media that I was cutting off the part of the map that shows what games are being shown in Alaska and Hawai’i, I didn’t know I was doing that, but it’s there in the lower left corner.
As for the rest of the map, the blue area represents Arizona at Dallas, the yellow area represents Las Vegas at the New York Jets, and the orange area represents Atlanta at Tampa Bay.
Apparently FOX believes this is their biggest game of the week, as they assigned their #1 broadcast team to cover it. Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady will be calling the shots from the booth for this one.
That’s your coverage map for this week’s game, folks. We’ve got a lot more coverage coming to the game this week, so keep it here for all the latest.