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Giants | Team to play Redskins to start 2008 season
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:27:26 -0700

ESPNews reports the New York Giants will play the Washington Redskins in the 2008 regular-season opening game.


I wanted to see Colts vs. Giants...pretty lame boring matchup if you ask me.

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I wonder if the NFL realizes theres football outside of the east coast. I could live with Pats vs. somebody or Colts vs. somebody....what about Browns vs. Cowboys?, yes that would be sweet.

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The MLB is a joke. The american pastime season opener in Japan. It won't suprise me at some point to have the NFL open in London or some other international city that doens't care about real football or have any stake in teams like fans here do.

American sports stay in America.

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I wonder if the NFL realizes theres football outside of the east coast. I could live with Pats vs. somebody or Colts vs. somebody....what about Browns vs. Cowboys?, yes that would be sweet.




You do realize that the season opener is always between last year's champion and then another team. I understand what you are saying, but that is why the Colts had the 1st game last year, and the Giants this year.

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When do the reg season schedules come out? I need to start planning vacation days for the day after the opener and hopefully a Tuesday or 2 after a Monday night game!


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I know everyone already said that the champion plays in the opener, but also the Giants just played the Colts in 2006, so they won't play them till the 2010 season...


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I feel bad for the Buffalo fans though... I don't think it's right that they lose home games... it's all about money though... the Bills are trying to increase their market, which I can understand, but I don't think they should play any regular season games up there... you want to play the two preseason? fine...

also... I wonder if the Bills get a break on season tickets this year with their team going up north?


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When do the reg season schedules come out? I need to start planning vacation days for the day after the opener and hopefully a Tuesday or 2 after a Monday night game!




I do believe the schedule is due out on April 3rd or 4th.

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Perhaps they know that the east coast is the most populated region in the country? Perhaps they understand business? Perhaps they want to make as much money as possible?


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I wonder if the NFL realizes theres football outside of the east coast. I could live with Pats vs. somebody or Colts vs. somebody....what about Browns vs. Cowboys?, yes that would be sweet.




Can't remember, although I've seen it, but do we play the Cowboys at home or away this year? We haven't had a Thanksgiving Day game in awhile and it would actually be worth watching a game that day if the Brown & Orange were participants.


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NFL considering earlier start to Giants-Redskins opener
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NEW YORK -- The NFL's Thursday night season opener will match the Super Bowl-champion New York Giants and the Washington Redskins, with the game possibly starting an hour-and-a-half earlier to avoid clashing with the Republican National Convention.

2008 NFL schedule:
» Team-by-team 2008 opponents The game is now scheduled for 8:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 4 -- the concluding night of the Republican convention -- and will be televised by NBC. League spokesman Greg Aiello said Wednesday that the NFL is talking with the network about changing the game's starting time to 7 p.m.

The Super Bowl winner traditionally hosts the game. The Redskins' participation was confirmed by a person familiar with the NFL schedule who spoke on condition of anonymity because the league has not announced it. The Washington Post earlier reported that the Redskins will be facing the Giants in the season opener.

The highlight games of the NFL's first weekend will be announced Monday during league meetings in Palm Beach, Fla. The rest of the schedule will be announced later next month.

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We play Dallas at home this year...


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The MLB is a joke. The american pastime season opener in Japan. It won't suprise me at some point to have the NFL open in London or some other international city that doens't care about real football or have any stake in teams like fans here do.

American sports stay in America.





this isn't the first time mlb has opened their season in another country...

i have no problem with it, i mean, usually mlb opens up with a sunday night game, similiar to how the nfl opens up on that thursday night, but the problem is, nobody really gets that excited for that sunday night baseball game, opening day for mlb for me will always be the tribe playing their first game, whereas, opening day for nfl for me is that thursday night game, when finally, the nfl has arrived...

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Maybe the Browns will open on monday night or sunday night football against the Cowboys. Either way we should have multiple prime time games this season.

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Can't remember, although I've seen it, but do we play the Cowboys at home or away this year? We haven't had a Thanksgiving Day game in awhile and it would actually be worth watching a game that day if the Brown & Orange were participants.




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IN my opinion it is absolute B.S. to have a Thursday night opening game with last years champion. It is probably all about selling commercials, Honestly when will they have enough money and stop with the greed.

If you want to give the country something it wants, have all 32 teams open up on Sunday, with 4 late games and the rest starting at 1 pm eastern, and no Sunday or Monday night games.

That way by Sunday Night, everyone in the country will know whether their favorite team won, or lost, and how they played that day, And Football will be back, and it will Count. Period.

All this Crap about trying to make a few teams more marketable, is all some absolute ignorance and lack of understanding by some corporate executive at a T.V. station or advertising agency, or some multinational company, AND IT IS ENTIRELY WHAT IS WRONG, AND WHAT IS A CANCER TO THIS GREAT GAME OF COMPETITION.

The idiots, self important idiots, need to realize the people tune in to see the competition and part of that is competing against teams that your team isn't even playing this week, and if your playing at the same time, on the same day , IT'S BETTER! and the more you move games to only one on at a time, and each one a different day of the week, the more the long term effect will be that everyone starts to grow to where NOBODY CARES!


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IN my opinion it is absolute B.S. to have a Thursday night opening game with last years champion. It is probably all about selling commercials, Honestly when will they have enough money and stop with the greed.





i hate to break this to you, but having nfl games on tv, period is about selling commercials...

i love the thursday night opener with the defending champ at home, they deserve to get the spotlight at the beginning of the year...

and the numbers back it up, people watch those games...

how could you not be jacked up about the colts/pats opening night a few years ago? even last year's colts/saints opening night had some excitement (even if it was a blowout)

i see no problem with it, i love the extra games you get that first week of nfl, a thursday night, your regular slate of sunday afternoon/mid afternoon games, a sunday night game, and 2 monday night games...

it's the nfl, being the monster that it is, getting their consumers football crazy from the onset... it's brilliant

the numbers back it up.

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The MLB is a joke. The american pastime season opener in Japan. It won't suprise me at some point to have the NFL open in London or some other international city that doens't care about real football or have any stake in teams like fans here do.

American sports stay in America.





Bud Selig is smarter then people think. Instead of everyone talking about steroids, they're talking about why they opened the MLB season in Japan.

As for the opener, it seems to make sense to me. The defending champ vs. a traditionally popular franchise. The Redskins aren't anything special as a team but they have a large following of fans and are located in the nations capital. Plus, it's the opener. By that time, people are so starved for football that they could put two piles of warm crap on the field and everyone would watch.

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To be honest, I hate the Browns having Prime Time games. For one, it always makes me tired for school in the morning. Two I just like having the 1:00 game. There isn't anything else for me to do on a Sunday afternoon and this way if I want I can still do something in the evening. Also, Monday Night Football on ESPN is horrible. The announcers all stink. And they don't even talk about the game. Last year all they would talk about was Michael Vick even though he had nothing to do with either of the teams or the game.

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Personally I love ESPN's annoucners...Cornhieser is hilarious, Mike Tirico actually does a good job calling the game, very few mistakes. Plus nobody, IMO, is better at adding expert commentary than Jaws. But thats just me.

Madden and Micheals are classic, but lack spunk. Too much Madden booming and bamming about everything and pimping Brett Favre to an extreme.

The ESPN crew blows away every retard on CBS and Fox that barely knows what football is, let alone the players in the game. I do like gus johnson from CBS,however I want to pull out my hair if Randy Jackson is doing color commentary for CBS. What a D-Bag.

The worst might be Bryant Gumbel for NFL network, I want to burn my TV after listening to him. I'd turn the sound off but then its just not the same, plus I like Chris Collinsworth. He knows football. IMO NFL network has to find somebody that doesnt sound so horrible.

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Personally I love ESPN's annoucners...Cornhieser is hilarious, Mike Tirico actually does a good job calling the game, very few mistakes. Plus nobody, IMO, is better at adding expert commentary than Jaws. But thats just me.

Madden and Micheals are classic, but lack spunk. Too much Madden booming and bamming about everything and pimping Brett Favre to an extreme.

The ESPN crew blows away every retard on CBS and Fox that barely knows what football is, let alone the players in the game. I do like gus johnson from CBS,however I want to pull out my hair if Randy Jackson is doing color commentary for CBS. What a D-Bag.

The worst might be Bryant Gumbel for NFL network, I want to burn my TV after listening to him. I'd turn the sound off but then its just not the same, plus I like Chris Collinsworth. He knows football. IMO NFL network has to find somebody that doesnt sound so horrible.





i'm somewhat with you, although i just can't stomach tirico... i think they can do better...

but some of the bozos that cbs rolls out on sunday afternoons? for the nfl being as powerful as they are, it's sad when they have really bad announcers doing games... for every dick enberg, there are 7 or 8 ian eagles...

and fox isn't too far behind.. i don't like either network's "top guy" with cbs having nantz, and fox having buck...

people always bang on brent musberger, but i think he does an awesome job, he has a great voice for football, you would think that maybe he would have been up for the mnf job... i know he does the saturday night college game, but he's a lot more fitting then mike tirico...

i don't mind kornheiser either, it wouldn't bother me if he was taken off, and it wouldn't bother me if they kept him around...

i still love madden and michaels... madden is captain obvious, but i'll tell each and every one of you, when he's either retired or dead, you'll miss him in the booth...

and michaels usually calls a good game, although it's pretty obvious that he's got something riding on most of the games he calls

and i agree, bryant gumbel is awful... the nfl network really swung and missed on that one, it was one of those swing and misses where the bat comes back around to hit you in the head... it is really painful to listen to him try and do a game...

i'm telling you guys, brad nessler, they should get it done. best voice in football

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just clicking, lebron. BTW, are the goalie pads put away until fall, or do you tend the pipes into summer?

I like the defending champ opening the NFL season on Thursday night - it's a nice little tradition for the SB winner and besides, Giants/Washington is a good NFC rivalry so I can understand the matchup.


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Here are some more games. No Browns yet . . .

Monday Night Opener: Broncos at Raiders

Sunday Night Opener: Bears at Colts

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Monday Night Opener: Broncos at Raiders

Sunday Night Opener: Bears at Colts

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Those are some pretty lame games.


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The early monday night game is Green Bay VS Vikings @ GB.

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Kickoff Weekend primetime schedule includes Monday doubleheader
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the 2008 Kickoff Weekend national primetime television schedule on Monday.

For the fifth consecutive season, the defending Super Bowl champion will open the season by hosting the NFL Thursday night season kickoff. The 2008 regular season officially opens on Thursday, Sept. 4 when the New York Giants host the Washington Redskins at 7 p.m. ET on NBC.

The kickoff will be 90 minutes earlier than the start time of the traditional season opener due to the Republican National Convention.

The Week 1 Sunday night primetime contest will feature a rematch of of Super Bowl XLI, with the Chicago Bears at the Indianapolis Colts at 8:15 p.m. ET. It will mark the Colts' first game in their new home, Lucas Oil Stadium.

The first Monday night of the 2008 season will feature a doubleheader for the third consecutive season. In two matchups of division rivals on Sept. 8, the Green Bay Packers will host the Minnesota Vikings at 7 p.m. ET, followed by the Denver Broncos at the Oakland Raiders at 10:15 p.m. ET. Both games will be televised on ESPN.

The announcement of these national primetime TV games was made by Goodell at the NFL Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Denver Broncos at the Oakland Raiders


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Denver at Oakland? Are you freaking kidding me?

Do they have a monkey that chooses these? Maybe he flings poo against a wall with the 32 NFL logos on it?

I find it hard to believe that Denver and Oakland was/is one of the 5 best potential match-ups in the first week.

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I find it hard to believe that Denver and Oakland was/is one of the 5 best potential match-ups in the first week.




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The only reason I can think of is maybe that's the only one on the west coast in week one and since they start at 10:15, that was was their only choice...


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Cornheiser is terrible. I'd rather listen to crickets than that guy. I can stomach Tirico, and I like Jaws.

There really aren't many good broadcasters anymore.

On a side note, I absolutely hate the 'guest appearances' in the Monday Night booth. They are absurd, ridiculous, and often times have absolutely zero to do with the game.


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I know, I know...it's a Grossi article but a Thanksgiving Day game would be sweet. Couple other interesting notes, including a possible new deal for K2...

Cleveland Browns could host Thanksgiving Day game
Posted by Tony Grossi Plain Dealer Reporter March 31, 2008 13:57PM
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Seen and heard at the NFL meetings in Palm Beach, Calif. ...

TURKEY WITH THE BROWNS?: The Browns are under consideration to host a prime-time game on Thanksgiving Day. It would be the third of the three games on the holiday, following the traditional games in Detroit and Dallas. A third Thanksgiving Day game was created by the NFL three years ago to kick off the NFL Network schedule. Scheduling the Browns is an attractive commodity this year for three reasons: their resurgence, their exciting offense and their tough schedule. The Browns also are in line for at least one other prime-time appearance, more likely to be on a Sunday night than a Monday night. The full schedule will be released later this month.

BROWNS NEARING NEW CONTRACT FOR WINSLOW: A new contract for Kellen Winslow is now on the team's radar. This week at the NFL owners meetings, General Manager Phil Savage will meet with Winslow's agent, Drew Rosenhaus. Winslow hired Rosenhaus last year in anticipation of a forthcoming contract extension. Winslow made the Pro Bowl last year as an alternate and played in the game. He has three years left on his contract, which was extended by one year after the Browns restructured it in the wake of Winslow's 2005 motorcycle accident.

OAKLAND CORNER NOT ON BROWNS RADAR: Although the Raiders and Browns have exchanged e-mails about a possible trade for Oakland cornerback Fabian Washington, it doesn't sound as if a deal is in the works. The Browns were told that Oakland has an offer of a second-round pick on the table for the former No. 1 draft pick. The Browns, of course, do not have a pick available higher than the fourth-round and they are not even sure they would give that up for Washington.

RESEEDING IDEA COULD GO UP IN FLAMES: The early reviews are not good for Commissioner Roger Goodell's idea to reseed the playoffs and send a division-winner on the road to face a wild-card team with a better record. One owner adamantly against it is Dan Rooney of Pittsburgh. Very rarely does a dramatic league rule pass without Rooney's blessing.

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