Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Engineer; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150; Flight Crew Total 16000; Flight Crew Type 500
Situational Awareness; Confusion
Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR
Flight Crew Diverted; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Procedure; Human Factors; Environment - Non Weather Related; Airspace Structure
Watching the news in the morning I knew the Cincinnati Bengals had a home game.  The station said their coverage was at 1930.  I checked weather and TFR's on my Nexus 7 using AVARE.  I also have a Garmin GPS with XM WX and it shows TFR's.  Neither shows sports TFR's.  Returning from a trip to 0I8 and heading north VFR I noticed people in the stadium.  I still thought the game started at 1930 so I just figured fans were partying in the stadium pregame.  Just to be safe I went as far west as I could staying inches outside of the CVG airspace.  Looking at my TAC chart it was too close to call whether I was far enough away.  In hindsight; the TV stations coverage of the game was for AFTER the game.  The game started earlier.  I had a chance to do a 180 when I first saw; what appeared to be; people in the station but I was convinced kickoff was at 1930 and didn't process that I might be wrong.  I normally call FSS on cross country flights or any flight with weather issues.  FSS generally does not inform us of sports TFR's; as I recall.  It would be nice if XM included them.
A pilot violated the CVG Football TFR because he thought the game started much later but as he approached; it appeared the game was in progress so he attempted to divert around it but may not have.