I know they bump the games later on Championship weekend, but I don't remember them doing this on the Sunday of the Divisional Round. As far as I can remember it was always a Noon and 3:30 kick for those two games, right? Why did they change it this year?

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so more bets can be placed day of

So I found this article.

It seems kinda silly to change things and say this is the reason behind the moves, then the first year you implement the change put the 49ers game at 1pm PST on a Saturday. Seems like they should have had a Sunday game, or the late Saturday game.

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Packers > 49ers when it comes to ratings. They were never gonna put SF in the prime time Sunday slot.

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It could have been the Browns and Jaguars, and it would still get massive ratings. Its the playoffs and the only game worth a damn across nearly all sports on TV at the time.

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is there anything about the Packers FF wont dramatically overrate?

He's right in that if it were say week 5 of the NFL season, Packer ratings > 49er ratings. In the playoffs though, the teams playing eachother rarely- if ever- matter in terms of ratings.

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Packers ratings are mostly because Bears fans tune in to watch them lose.

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I agree that it does not matter in the playoffs, even if the megateams like the Patriots or Cowboys are playing.

But overall there are almost certainly more 49ers fans than Packers fans. Northern California and Oregon have some thirty million people living there and the 49ers dominate that turf. The Raiders probably have more fans still in Los Angeles than they do in the Bay Area. The fact that the Packers are the NFL's Official Team of the Trailer Park regardless of geography doesn't make up for all that population difference.

Nope

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Lots of jealousy in this thread

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Oregon generally supports the Seahawks and the Packers have a national following, 2nd only to the Cowboys and possibly the Patriots.

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Oregon generally does not support anything Seattle and the 49ers have every bit the national following as the Packers do.

The Bears are in there as well. Bears, Cowboys, Packers, Steelers are probably the most national teams. They can be interchanged at #1-4 depending on how good/bad they currently are.

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Ravens squeak by Titans
Packers destroy Seahawks
49ers squeak by Vikings
Chiefs destroy Texans

Seattle beats the Pack.

In another thread, I said Titans @ Chiefs for AFC title, Saints @ 49ers for NFC title, Chiefs over 49ers in the Super Bowl.

I'll stick with that.

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Patriots and 49ers are definitely in there too.

Bears are really only in there because the colossal Chicago diaspora. They are not a national team with national appeal. They just aren't trashy or low-brow enough like the Packers or Cowboys to attract the lowest common denominator.

Imagine degrading yourself to appeal to the lowly average American and then not even be appealing enough to even come close to the size of Cowboys Nation.

The Bears do not have a national following. They've been irrelevant for 50 years.

Wrong, and pretty ironic coming from a Packer fan that spends a good portion of his time discussing......The Chicago Bears.

Portland supports the Seahawks and Mariners. Don't know about the rest of the state.

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Because I live in Chicago.

If I didn't live in Chicago and someone mentioned Chicago Bears I'd think they were talking about your husbands

You post more about the Bears than the Packers.

The NFL tv schedulers seem to disagree.

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Yeah, it's not that complicated.

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Yup. Even in the Fox/Trestman eras with terrible teams, they had MANY primetime games.

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correct. the Bears are not a national team. Neither are the 9ers.

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