L.A.'s NFL Week 7: Romo makes a mess of everything
Oh, goodness. Goodness ... goodness ... goodness.
Gracious, too.
Tony Romo has a bad pinkie. Really bad. Super bad.
What does Fox do with its NFL coverage this weekend? And the next. And the two after that?
Can it justify putting them Dallas Simpsons on the tube again?
Is the storyline better now with the Cowboys losing two of their last three?
Does Troy Aikman suit up?
Think of the plot thickening, and not having them on TV?
Dallas, who lost Romo on a bad fumble in OT in Arizona last Sunday, faces the new, improved (?) St. Louis Rams, coming off its victory against Washington, in the 10 a.m. window of Sunday's professional football menu, and Fox has the game.
Or, will it show 49ers-Giants, Vikings-Bears or Saints-Panthers instead in that window -- the only one it has for the L.A. market this weekend.
And the winner is ...
SUNDAY:
==10 a.m., Channel 11: San Francisco at N.Y. Giants (with Dick Stockton, Aikman and Pam Oliver).
==10 a.m., Channel 2: San Diego at Buffalo (with Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf, as opposed to other CBS options of Baltimore-Miami, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati and Tennessee-Kansas City)
==1:15 p.m., Channel 2: N.Y. Jets at Oakland (with Dick Enberg, Randy Cross and Dan Fouts, as opposed to CBS' coverage of Indianapolis-Green Bay -- where No. 1 team Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will be -- and Cleveland-Washington. Fox also has Detroit-Houston in this window)
==5:15 p.m., Channel 4: Seattle at Tampa Bay (with Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth) A potential Game 7 for the Red Sox-Rays ALCS from Tropicana Field could compete with this on TBS head to head -- and really split the viewers from that part of Florida. Consider the alternatives and importance of each contest, and the NFL will somehow still have more viewers. Yes, it makes no sense.
MONDAY:
==5:30 p.m., ESPN: Denver at New England (again, without Tom Brady, but with Ron Jaworski ... and Mike Tirico ... and perhaps Tony Kornheiser allowed to speak).
Bye week: Arizona, Atlanta, Jacksonville and Philadelphia.
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