Your L.A. NFL Week 13 TV schedule: Pay the bill and jet off to the great white Toronto
Ah, Canada in the fall.
Did you hear about how the Canadian Football League title game ended last Sunday?
Someone named Damon Duval kicked a 33-yard field goal with no time left -- after getting a second chance because of a Saskatchewan penalty -- in the Grey Cup to give the Montreal Alouettes a 28-27 victory over the Roughriders. Duval missed moments earlier from 43 yards, but the Roughriders were penalized for having 13 men on the field.
That's rough, Roughriders. But in CFL rules, is 13 on the field too many or two few?
Now that it's over, the American footballers come to Toronto with their own brand -- the Jets and Bills of New York.
And good news for Buffalo residents: The game sold out at 52,000-seat Rogers Centre so it'll be televised locally, even though it's on the NFL Network.
Now that the United Football League's schedule is also over -- the Las Vegas Locos won in OT when another dude named Graham Gano kicked a 33-yard field goal to snuff out the Florida Tuskers before a reported 14,801 at Sam Boyd Stadium -- Locos QB and former Bills starter JP Losman is available.
Losman completed 21 of 35 passes for 193 yards in the game -- not as sparkling as the Tuskers' Brooke Bollinger, who was 22 of 45 for 306 yards with two touchdowns.
Our prediction on Jets-Bills: Someone wins on a 33-yard field goal. Somehow, that's stuck in our frozen brain.
Otherwise, the rest of the Americanized schedule, with L.A. locked into a Charger afternoon contest in crappy Cleveland rather than much better offerings in the early CBS window:
THURSDAY:
== 5:30 p.m., NFL Network: New York Jets vs. Buffalo in Toronto (with Bob Papa and Matt Millen)
SUNDAY:
== 10 a.m., Channel 11: On Monday morning, it was Philadelphia at Atlanta, but after the Monday night victory over New England, it's now New Orleans going to Washington (with Sam Rosen, Tim Ryan and Nischelle Turner, instead of St. Louis at Chicago, Tampa Bay at Carolina and Detroit at Cincinnati. The L.A. market also does not get any of the early CBS games -- Tennessee at Indiana, New England at Miami, Oakland at Pittsburgh, Denver at Kansas City or Houston at Jacksonville)
== 1 p.m., Channel 11: Dallas at New York Giants (with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman), instead of San Francisco at Seattle.
== 1 p.m., Channel 2: San Diego at Cleveland (with Kevin Harlan and Solomon Wilcots, most likely going to less than 3 percent of the entire country)
== 5:20 p.m., Channel 4: Minnesota at Arizona (with Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Andrea Kramer).
MONDAY:
== 5:30 p.m., ESPN: Baltimore at Green Bay (with Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and Jon Gruden)



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