With 8 weeks of the season gone, here is the team breakdown of live games on television in the UK so far.
6. New England
5. Dallas, NY Giants and Philadelphia.
4. Buffalo, Carolina, Denver, Green Bay, Indianapolis, Kansas, New Orleans, NY Jets, Pittsburgh and Seattle.
3. Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, Miami, San Francisco.
2. Arizona, Atlanta.
1. Chicago, Houston, Jacksonville, Minnesota, Oakland, St Louis, San Diego and Washington.
0. Cleveland, Tampa Bay and Tennessee.
Cleveland will feature this coming week on TNF. Tennessee and Tampa Bay will also be on TNF in weeks 11 and 15 respectively. Of the current division leaders Arizona rank lowest with two television appearances. They are scheduled for two SNF appearances. First at Seattle in Week 10, and their home game against Cincinnati in week 11 becomes the first game this season to be flexed by NBC replacing Kansas @ San Diego.
As usual NFC East teams feature highly in this list. They are still big draws for television audiences in America with ten of the sixteen NFC East team appearances occurring in TNF, SNF or MNF. The AFC East has had the most team appearances with seventeen. This figure is slightly higher due to three AFC East teams featuring in International Series matches. The AFC South has the least team appearances with six - one of which was Jacksonville in the second International Series game.
With regards to Sunday early and late games - the matches that Sky have some degree of choice over, twenty teams have featured in these matches. The breakdown is as follows;
(Early Game, Late Game)
3. Buffalo (2,1), Cincinnati (3.0), Dallas (0,3), New England (2,1).
2. Carolina (1,1), New Orleans (2,0), NY Jets (1,1) Philadelphia (1,1).
1. Early game - Chicago, Green Bay, Kansas, Pittsburgh.
1. Late game - Arizona, Baltimore, Denver, Miami, NY Giants, Oakland, St Louis, Seattle.