Don’t put anything past the favoritism level or pettiness level of the schedule-makers.
These are the same people that made sure that the 7 teams that voted against the league resolution forcing teams to have second Thursday night game each played in one of the four Thursday night games featuring teams that already had had one that year.
You read that correctly, 7 of the 8 teams forced to play a second Thursday night game were the 7 teams that opposed the league’s desire for it.
There are subtle jabs at teams and hidden favoritism measures taken every year. It’s a very human-influenced process, and I am quite certain Roger has some level of influence on it as well.
They didn’t HAVE to give us a home game this weekend and they certainly didn’t have to just so happen to make it a west coast team, arguably the most favored west coast team of them all’s, preferred 3:00 game.