Today's Football Question

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| Sun Nov. 25, 2012 12:59 PM PST

I don't watch much pro football, so I hope everyone will excuse my ignorance here. But I turn on pro games every once in a while, and as near as I can tell, the new normal is that if a team is way ahead then the network just gives up on the game and switches coverage to a different and supposedly better game. Is this really true? Or am I imagining things? 

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