Dallas Cowboys are America's most loved and loathed team, very much analogous to ManU.

Why America Hates the Dallas Cowboys | Bleacher Report

'First Take': NFL's most-hated team? - SportsNation - ESPN

Poll: Dallas Cowboys are actually America's least favorite team - CBSSports.com

I'm a Redskins fan so they are certainly not my favourite team. To be fair though I think that of the six times they were selected by Sky for Sunday Early / Late games this season, Week 7 was questionable as it could have been Kansas @ San Diego, but given the choice I'd prefer an NFC East grudge match. The other notable selection has has been debated earlier in this thread. Had their Week 10 visit to Jacksonville not been an International Series match that probably wouldn't have been chosen by Sky.

As you can see below the 12 appearances on television in the UK are backed up by 13 of their 16 games featuring as either showpiece or primary games in the USA.

WK 1 Sunday Late (San Francisco @ Dallas) Primary game in USA and part of Fox doubleheader.
WK 2 Not Shown (@ Tennessee) Primary game in USA for Fox.
WK 3 Not Shown (@ St Louis)
WK 4 SNF (New Orleans @ Dallas)
WK 5 Not Shown (Houston @ Dallas)Primary game in USA and part of CBS doubleheader.
WK 6 Sunday Late @ Seattle. Primary game in USA and part of Fox Doubleheader.
WK 7 Sunday Late - (NY Giants @ Dallas) Primary game in USA and part of Fox doubleheader.
WK 8 MNF (Washington @ Dallas)
WK 9 Sunday Early (Arizona @ Dallas) Primary game for Fox.
WK 10 Sunday Early (International Series match @ Jacksonville)
WK 11 Bye Week.
WK 12 SNF (@ NY Giants)
WK 13 Thanksgiving Late game
WK 14 TNF (@ Chicago).
WK 15 SNF (@ Philadelphia).
WK 16 Sunday Late Game - (Indianapolis @ Dallas). Primary game in USA and part of CBS doubleheader.
WK 17 Not shown. (@ Washington).

Red Zone on a main channel with no adverts is a big thumbs up for Sky. Thought main channel would mean ad breaks but none so far.

Also available in HD on Sky Sports 5 HD big thumbs up from me.

same..

Also available on Sky Go Live , another thumbs up.

Wonder if they will put Redzone separately on a main channel every week next season?

If they have the space for it, however most channels are full during sunday evenings. We're only getting it tonight because they don't have live football.

Maybe if La Liga goes to BT, it might happen.

CBS execs currently drafting a memo to the League saying 'Thanks for the cross-flex of Carolina/Atlanta, but next time don't worry, we're good!'

Did Sky persist with showing this blowout till the end, or did they change over to the Green Bay game? I had to watch Lions @ Packers via alternative means last night! Very odd match choice from Sky last night.

I was mostly watching RedZone but when I flicked across Sky were still showing it with 3 or 4 minutes left in the final quarter

The full playoff schedule was released overnight, this season marks the first year ESPN get to show a Wildcard game and the first in which NBC gets a Divisional game, a game which will alternate each year between AFC and NFC

Wildcard Round Schedule

Saturday, Jan. 3

NFC: No. 5 Arizona Cardinals at No. 4 Carolina Panthers, 9:35 p.m. (ESPN)

AFC: No. 6 Baltimore at No. 3 Pittsburgh, 1:15 a.m. (NBC)

Sunday, Jan. 4

AFC: No. 5 Cincinnati at No. 4 Indianapolis 6:05 p.m. (CBS)

NFC: No. 6 Detroit at No. 3 Cowboys 9:40 p.m. (Fox)

Divisional round Schedule

Saturday, Jan. 10

AFC: Baltimore/Cincinnati/Indianapolis at No. 1 New England, 9:35 p.m. (NBC)

NFC: Detroit/Carolina/Arizona at No. 1 Seattle, 1:15 a.m. (Fox)

Sunday, Jan. 11

NFC: Dallas/Carolina/Arizona at No. 2 Green Bay, 6:05 p.m. (Fox)

AFC: Cincinnati/Pittsburgh/Indianapolis at No. 2 Denver, 9:40 p.m. (CBS)

Championship Weekend

Sunday, Jan. 18

NFC Championship, 8:05 p.m. (Fox)

AFC Championship, 11:40 p.m. (CBS)

I switched to redzone, I'm not sure they are allowed to switch games in the case of a blow out.

Commentary Teams for Wild Card Weekend.

Sat 21:20 - Arizona @ Carolina - ESPN - Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden, Lisa Salters.
Sun 01:15 - Baltimore @ Pittsburgh - NBC - Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya.
Sun 18:05 - Cincinnati @ Indianapolis - CBS - Jim Nantz, Phil Simms, Tracy Wolfson.
Sun 21:40 - Detroit @ Dallas - Fox - Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Erin Andrews, Chris Myers.

Where's Kev gone this evening?

4 hours into the Playoff coverage & not one mention of the Wembley games later this yet.

There definitely was one before that flogging season tickets.

They are obviously struggling to sell the season tickets as still getting repeated emails saying I can renew my seats despite my priority booking period having expired.
As I posted earlier can't go this year as my new job means I am unable to be in London on Sunday evenings.

I saw plenty of pimping of the Wembley games with endless mentions of their silly poll on what match you're looking forward to the most. Unfortunately there was no option for none of the above.

What did people think of the line up with two pundits and with Neil presenting?

Well you have the two best expert's in Jeff and Shaun and I think Neil is OK, but I do like Kev, he can be very funny

I think Neil works a lot better in this role, and Kevin does not seem to get any better after all these years.

Kevin is back in the chair tonight. Joined by Jeff Reinebold and Neil Reynolds.

So because we're now into playoffs, Channel 4 can't broadcast.
Is anyone (other than Sky Sports) showing any live games (apart from the Superbowl)?

No, Sky Sports is the only place with live games until the Superbowl, Channel 4 has highlights.

There was an odd moment earlier, can only presume I misheard, when Neil Reynolds was talking about Wembley kick off times he said that 6 of the 7 World Series games rated lower than the Atlanta/Detroit game at Wembley.

If that's what he said, it's a big exaggeration, none of the World Series games this year rated lower than the early kick off at Wembley

Channel 4 has highlights of wildcard weekend on The American Football Show - 00:00 - 00:55 on Tuesday 6th January. I believe similar shows are scheduled for the Divisional games and the Conference Championship games.


I must have missed that comment. I have renewed my season ticket for 2015. Does anybody know when the kick off times for the 2015 international series will be announced? Or for comparison purposes, when the 2014 kick off times were released?