Does home state loyalty mean anything in the NFL? Apparently not. (Look at how many games the NFL play overseas? ) The Tennessee Titans play in Nashville, but if when your team is so bad at football, loyalty even to one's own state is out the window. The FOX stations in the nearby Tennessee cities of Knoxville and Chattanooga won't be airing the Titans game.
According to the latest NFL broadcast maps from 506 sports, the local Fox affiliates in Knoxville and Chattanooga, which are two major cities in the same state as the Nashville-based Tennessee Titans are dumping Sunday’s 1:00 PM ET matchup between the 1-7 Titans and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Instead, viewers in the Eastern part of Tennessee will get the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings game as most of the country will.
The only areas in the country that will be able to watch the Titans Jaguars clash are indicated by yellow. Damn!
Under NFL rules, only stations within a 75-mile primary radius of Nashville are forced to air every Titans game. Because Knoxville and Chattanooga sit outside that zone, local station managers can pick the game they think will draw the best ratings. Choosing an out-of-market NFC North matchup over the home-state team is a brutal reality check for the Titans' brand and forces East Tennessee fans to buy NFL Sunday Ticket just to watch their home state Titans one-win team.
If you ran a TV station in East Tennessee, would you stick with the struggling home-state Titans out of loyalty, or take the guaranteed ratings bump from Packers-Vikings? Drop your take below.
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