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The dates and times for the 2008 NFL Playoffs has been announced by the league, with the Wild Card Weekend next week and the Divisional Playoffs Jan 10 and 11.

For the last week of the NFL season, every team is playing on Sunday. Below are the Week 17 NFL Coverage Maps, courtesty of the506.com, along with the DirecTV Sunday Ticket channel numbers.

We thought we had it all figured out. We all thought that NBC would select the AFC East Championship matchup between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins as the Week 17 NFL Flex Game for Sunday Night Football. But then the Jets lost, and the battle for which team will “limp” their way into the playoffs gets the national spotlight.

With only two weeks of NFL regular season football left, there are games of consequence all around. Below are the week 16 NFL Coverage Maps, courtesy of the the506.com, together with DirecTV Sunday Ticket channel numbers.

Below are the week 15 NFL Coverage Maps, courtesy of the the506.com, together with DirecTV Sunday Ticket channel numbers.
With only three more games left in the regular season, this is still one of the tightest playoff races we have seen in a long time and there a number of key matchups Sunday afternoon followed by [...]

As we suspected, NBC decided to pass on the originally scheduled Sunday Night Football game for Week 16, San Diego Charges vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (which has been moved to 1:00 PM ET on CBS). The NFL announced today that Carolina Panthers vs. New York Giants will be moved to Sunday Night on NBC at 8:15 PM ET, and the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Washington Redskins and Atlanta Falcons vs. Minnesota Vikings were moved to 4:15 PM ET on Fox, which has the weekly double header.

With the NFL Playoff races heating up, we have several big ticket games this Sunday. With Fox broadcasting the possible Superbowl preview of the Cowboys at Steelers to all markets except St. Louis, Arizona and Denver, we essentially get 4 national games this week (yes that includes Thursday night’s joke of a game between the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers).

Thursday night’s NFL Network matchup between the San Diego Charges and Oakland Raiders will be broadcast in 3D to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston on December 4, 2008. A little more than 10 years after the first HD NFL game was broadcast on November 8, 1998 does this mark the start of the next frontier in high definition sports viewing?

As we suspected, NBC said “no thanks” when given the opportunity to switch out their Sunday night game for Week 15. They are keeping their marquee match-up between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys on Sunday December 14, at 8:15 PM ET. However, CBS did move the Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore and Denver vs. Carolina games from 1:00 to 4:15 PM ET.

NBC has exercised their first Flex option for the 2008 season, moving the Washington Redskins at Baltimore Ravens game from 1:00 PM on Fox, to primetime Sunday Night Football on NBC at 8:15 PM.