L.A.'s NFL TV schedule Week 16: Must-see Saturday begins with Dallas locked into the black hole of NFL Net

UPDATED Tuesday at 3 p.m. with Fox's change in the second game of its double-header coverage Sunday

How 'bout that Dallas Cowboy reality show? It really started back in the preseason with that HBO "Hard Knocks." Now it's into the T.O.-Romo-Witten-Pacman-crazytunes.
It's the media's fault, for sure.
But it's your fault for ... nothing, really. It's all the media's fault. You're just along for the ride.
The media has to make up more stuff in a short week as the Cowboys play that rare Saturday game (the only one of the NFL season this year, up against the first week of the college bowl seasons) on the even rarer NFL Network.
NBC only wish it had a shot at the Cowboys again. It announced today that Sunday's Cowboys-Giants game drew 23.1 million viewers, making it the No. 1 primetime program for the week and the No. 3 primetime program for the entire TV season so far. The only others to top it were a Nov. 16 telecast of CBS' "60 Minutes" with president-elect Barack Obama (25.1 mil) and the Oct. 9 season premiere of "CSI" on CBS (23.5 mil).

THURSDAY:

==5 p.m., NFL Network: Indianapolis at Jacksonville (with Bob Papa and Cris Collinsworth).

SATURDAY:

==5 p.m., NFL Network: Baltimore at Dallas (with Bob Papa, Deion Sanders and Marshall Faulk) The last game at Texas Stadium, and Jerry Jones made sure the NFL Network broadcast it to an audience of several hundred.

SUNDAY:

==10 a.m., Channel 2: San Diego at Tampa Bay (with Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf). It's a game originally on NBC's Sunday night schedule, tossed back to CBS. Somehow the Chargers haven't been eliminated. Not as long as Denver leads the AFC West. The two play each other in the season finale with a chance to tie for the division lead. Other games CBS has in this window: Pittsburgh-Tennessee (with Jim Nantz and Phil Simms), Cincinnati-Cleveland and Miami-Kansas City.

== 10 a.m., Channel 11: Arizona at New England (with Kenny Albert, Moose Johnston and Tony Siragusa). Fox also has San Francisco-St. Louis and New Orleans-Detroit in this early window to pass on.

== 1 p.m., Channel 11: Originally, it was Atlanta at Minnesota (with Dick Stockton, Brian Baldinger, Brian Billick and Laura Okmin), but then KTTV Channel 11 changed it to Philadelphia-Washington (with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman) in this spot. CBS has N.Y. Jets-Seattle, Buffalo-Denver and Houston-Oakland in this window.

==5:15 p.m., Channel 4: Carolina at N.Y. Giants (with Al Michaels, John Madden and Andrea Kremer). And no Plaxico Burress. NBC gets to pick, on Monday, what game it'll show on the final Sunday night of the season. Best bet: Dallas-Philadelphia, as the Cowboys hang on for a wildcard, or, better yet, New York Jets hosting Miami, both of whom could be tied for the lead in the AFC East.

MONDAY:

==5:30 p.m., ESPN: Green Bay at Chicago (with Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and a very tired Tony Kornheiser) The last MNF game of the year.