ORCHARD PARK – There are two reasons why the No. 1 CBS broadcast team will be at MetLife Stadium Sunday afternoon when the Buffalo Bills face the AFC East rival New York Jets.
First and foremost, the big Week 2 doubleheader game at 4:25 p.m., the Super Bowl rematch between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, is on FOX. And of the 1 p.m. games under CBS’ purview, Josh Allen and the Bills, coming off their incredible victory last Sunday night, are easily the most entertaining and fascinating team for Jim Nantz, Tony Romo and Tracy Wolfson to be opining about this week.
Last year, they did three Bills regular-season games and two of them, Buffalo’s 30-21 victory over the Chiefs and their 48-42 shootout victory over the Lions, were among the most exciting games of the 2024 NFL season. They also watched the Bills score 40 points in a late-season blowout of the Jets.
And then Nantz, Romo and Wolfson were on the call for all three of Buffalo’s postseason games – the wins over the Broncos and Ravens and the AFC Championship Game loss to the Chiefs.
There are a couple other potentially interesting 1 p.m. games on CBS such as Jaguars at Bengals and Browns at Ravens, but the reigning MVP Allen and the Bills going against the new-look Jets of Aaron Glenn was a pretty obvious place for CBS to send its top team.
And you know Nantz enjoys every Bills game he gets to cover because he has a soft spot in his heart for the organization and its fan base. In October 2022 when Nantz’s mother died, Allen reached out personally to offer his condolences, and when Nantz came to Buffalo for his first broadcast after her passing, the Bills’ management team greeted him in the broadcast booth at Highmark Stadium to offer their condolences.
The following spring, during an episode of Bills Embedded on which Nantz was a guest, he said he would never forget their kindness, and he also relayed the story of how Bills fans donated money to the Nantz National Alzheimer Center in Houston, founded by Nantz and named in honor of his father, Jim Sr., who died in 2008.
“I mean, the only team in the NFL, and it wasn’t a handful of people,” Nantz said. “It was like well, well over 100 in Bills Mafia that reached out to my family. I’ll never forget that.”
Here’s the broadcast and betting information:
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What time is the Buffalo Bills vs New York Jets game?
∎ Date: Sunday, Sept. 14
∎ Time: 1 p.m.
∎ Place: MetLife Stadium
Who is favored to win Bills vs. Jets game
∎ Betting line: Bills -6.5
∎ Over-under: 46.5
∎ Money line: Bills minus-325 (bet $325 to win $100) and Jets plus-260 (bet $100 to win $260).
Who is announcing the Bills vs. Jets game
∎ Play-by-play: Jim Nantz
∎ Analyst: Tony Romo
∎ Sideline reporter: Tracy Wolfson
How to watch Bills vs Jets game on TV, streaming
∎ Cable/Network TV: CBS. The game will be available locally via the following stations: WROC channel 8 (Rochester area), WIVB channel 4 (Buffalo area), WTVH channel 5 (Syracuse area), WKTV channel 2 (Utica area), WENY channel 36 (Elmira area), WRGB channel 6 (Albany area), and WBNG channel 12 (Binghamton area).
∎ Online streaming services: You can watch games on NFL.com and the NFL mobile app, and you can subscribe to NFL+, the league’s own streaming service, though you can’t cast the games to your TV – you must watch on your phone or tablet.
∎ TV streaming: You can also stream games if you have subscriptions to Spectrum, DirecTV Choice, Fubo Sports, Sling, Vidgo, Hulu + Live TV, YouTubeTV + NFL Sunday Ticket, and Paramount+.
On the radio: How to listen to the Bills vs Jets game
You can listen on SiriusXM satellite radio on channel 386 (Bills feed) and channel 231 (Jets feed), and on traditional radio, the Bills Radio Network has stations all across the state. Chris Brown has the play-by-play, Eric Wood is the analyst, and Sal Capaccio is the sideline reporter. The network includes:
Sal Maiorana has covered the Buffalo Bills for four decades including 35 years as the full-time beat writer for the D&C, he has written numerous books about the history of the team, and he is also co-host of the BLEAV in Bills podcast/YouTube show. He can be reached at maiorana@gannett.com, and you can follow him on X @salmaiorana and on Bluesky @salmaiorana.bsky.social.
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