Why Cowboys fans are tortured by NFL Week 1 coverage map

Billy Heyen

Why Cowboys fans are tortured by NFL Week 1 coverage map image

The Dallas Cowboys get to open the NFL season on Thursday night against the Philadelphia Eagles.

That means that Cowboys fans get to watch other teams on the opening Sunday of the season as Week 1 gets underway in earnest with 13 of the league's 16 games that day.

And yeah, if Dallas sports fans are trying to watch Micah Parsons, he's out there.

The NFL's coverage maps for its Week 1 broadcast were unveiled by 506 Sports on Wednesday, and there's one splotch on one of the maps that stands out more than any other.

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It's the CBS late window map, which has only two games on it.

One is Packers-Lions, otherwise known as Parsons' debut for Green Bay. The other is Texans-Rams.

The entirety of Texas gets to watch Houston play, except for one spot: Dallas.

Check out this map, which shows that the Green Bay game will be broadcast in the greater Dallas area:

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This might mean some Cowboys fans opt to turn off their TVs altogether.

If tuning in, at least those in Dallas get to hear Tony Romo as the color commentator for Packers-Lions alongside Jim Nantz.

Hopefully there aren't too many annoyed Texans fans in Dallas wishing they could watch their team's opener. But it's all about Parsons this week, with him looming over everything the Cowboys do for the foreseeable future.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle