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Right. That explains it entirely. (insert gif of rolling eyes here)
In the NFL, there is an uneven distribution of teams based on their Local Time Zone. The 32 teams fall into four Time Zone categories: Eastern (EST; 17 teams), Central (CST; 9 teams), Pacific (PST; 4 teams), and Mountain (MST; 2 teams).
The teams with the body clock issues are the four teams from the Pacific/West Coast (San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle) and the two Mountain teams (Arizona, Denver) that have to start games on the road when there body clock is set to 10-11 AM. Many of our comparisons will focus on these six teams, which we will note, where applicable, as the group of “Western teams” from now on.
Discomfort Zone: the impact of travel on NFL games