Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Graham
On the ESPN Radio airwaves with Jon Stashower on Sunday morning, we touched on the difficulty of winning when traveling into a three-hour time change while breaking down the New York Jets' matchup against the Oakland Raiders in the Coliseum.
I hung up the phone and dropped an e-mail to ESPN Stats & Information in hopes it could track down the exact record for games in which a team travels from the Eastern time zone to the Pacific time zone and vice versa.
I recalled the numbers being worse than they've actually been.
Last year, teams traveling from the Pacific to the Eastern were 3-15, including 1-8 against AFC East clubs. The San Francisco 49ers over the Buffalo Bills in Ralph Wilson Stadium was the lone victory.
But teams heading three hours to the west went an impressive 11-8, but the AFC East went 3-6. The New England Patriots won all of those games (at San Francisco, Seattle and Oakland).
This year, teams are 1-3 when going from Pacific time zone to the Eastern time zone and 3-3 the other way. The Miami Dolphins have played the AFC East's only cross-country game, losing to the San Diego Chargers in Week 2.
On the ESPN Radio airwaves with Jon Stashower on Sunday morning, we touched on the difficulty of winning when traveling into a three-hour time change while breaking down the New York Jets' matchup against the Oakland Raiders in the Coliseum.
I hung up the phone and dropped an e-mail to ESPN Stats & Information in hopes it could track down the exact record for games in which a team travels from the Eastern time zone to the Pacific time zone and vice versa.
I recalled the numbers being worse than they've actually been.
Last year, teams traveling from the Pacific to the Eastern were 3-15, including 1-8 against AFC East clubs. The San Francisco 49ers over the Buffalo Bills in Ralph Wilson Stadium was the lone victory.
But teams heading three hours to the west went an impressive 11-8, but the AFC East went 3-6. The New England Patriots won all of those games (at San Francisco, Seattle and Oakland).
This year, teams are 1-3 when going from Pacific time zone to the Eastern time zone and 3-3 the other way. The Miami Dolphins have played the AFC East's only cross-country game, losing to the San Diego Chargers in Week 2.
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Tim Graham
Graham joined ESPN.com in 2008 after covering the Miami Dolphins for the Palm Beach Post. He previously spent eight years at the Buffalo News, where he was an award-winning NHL and boxing writer. The Baldwin-Wallace College grad also has worked for the Las Vegas Sun and Boston Herald.