...Redskins versus Vikings at Fed Ex Field.

Redskins = Ratings

How could we expect anything less?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2386175

I love the fact that we will have 3 games to watch on Thanksgiving.

Manning vs. Manning in Sunday Night opener. From the NFL:

The NFL announced on Monday its 2006 Kickoff Weekend nationally televised schedule – including a Monday night doubleheader -- and its Thanksgiving Day national TV tripleheader.

In a tradition instituted in 2004, the Super Bowl champion annually hosts the NFL Thursday night season kickoff the following year. This September 7 at 8:30 PM ET, the Super Bowl XL champion Pittsburgh Steelers will oppose the Miami Dolphins as NBC rejoins the NFL’s TV Family for the first time since 1997.

On Sunday, September 10, the FOX national doubleheader game at 4:15 PM ET will feature the Dallas Cowboys at the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Sunday night primetime game (8:15 PM ET) on NBC can be called the “Manning Bowl” and it will be a history-maker. The AFC South champion Indianapolis Colts will visit the NFC East titlist New York Giants. It will be a matchup of quarterback brothers – the Colts’ 30-year-old PEYTON MANNING against his sibling, 25-
year-old ELI of the Giants. It will be the first time in NFL history that brothers will start at quarterback against
each other.

Monday night, September 11, will feature the first regularly scheduled Monday Night Football game on ESPN, and the first regularly scheduled Monday Night Football doubleheader. The first game (7:00 PM ET) will pit the Minnesota Vikings, under new head coach BRAD CHILDRESS, at the Washington Redskins, an ’05 Divisional Playoff team. The Monday night “nightcap” (10:15 PM ET) will be an AFC West meeting of the San Diego Chargers, directed by new starting quarterback PHILIP RIVERS, at the Oakland Raiders, also led by a new
coach, Pro Football Hall of Famer ART SHELL.


The NFL will kick off its new late-season primetime television package on NFL Network on Thanksgiving night, giving NFL fans three games on Thanksgiving Day for the first time.

The early game that day (CBS, 12:30 PM ET) will feature the Dolphins at the Detroit Lions, under new head coach ROD MARINELLI. The second game (FOX, 4:15 PM ET) will send the NFC South champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers to Dallas to face the Cowboys.

The Thanksgiving package concludes at 8:00 PM ET on NFL Network when the top two teams in the AFC
West last year meet. The Denver Broncos (13-3) will visit the Kansas City Chiefs (10-6).

The rest of the 2006 regular-season schedule will be finalized and announced in April.

I got goosebumps...I can't wait!

I wonder if this means that Arrowhead Stadium will join Dallas and Detroit as traditional Thanksgiving Day sites.

Monday Night doubleheader, I wonder if that will be a weekly thing.....love that 7 pm start time!

probably not since the 2nd game would have to be comewhere in the MTN/PAC time zones. There's probably some Monday (Week 17 prob) that they're compensating for.