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NFL 2011-12 Schedule Released: NBC, ESPN And NFL Network Games

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

NBC will air the season opener on Thursday, September 8, with the Packers hosting the Saints. And then...

"Sunday Night Football", NBC
September 11 - Cowboys at Jets
September 18 - Eagles at Falcons
September 25 - Steelers at Colts
October 2 - Jets at Ravens
October 9 - Packers at Falcons
October 16 - Vikings at Bears
October 23 - Colts at Saints
October 30 - Cowboys at Eagles
November 6 - Ravens at Steelers
November 13 - Patriots at Jets
November 20 - Eagles at Giants
November 27 - Steelers at Chiefs (yes - a Chiefs home game on NBC... remember, these games are flexible at around this point of the season)
December 4 - Colts at Patriots
December 11 - Giants at Cowboys
December 18 - Ravens at Chargers
December 25 - Bears at Packers (note that this will be the only game scheduled on Christmas Day; there will be thirteen games played on Saturday, December 24, Christmas Eve)
January 1 - Open

"Monday Night Football," ESPN
September 12 - Patriots at Dolphins; Raiders at Broncos
September 19 - Rams at Giants
September 26 - Redskins at Cowboys
October 3 - Colts at Buccaneers
October 10 - Bears at Lions
October 17 - Dolphins at Jets
October 24 - Ravens at Jaguars
October 31 - Chargers at Chiefs (how about that - the Chiefs possibly hosting Sunday and Monday night games in the same season... ain't that scary?)
November 7 - Bears at Eagles
November 14 - Vikings at Packers
November 21 - Chiefs at Patriots
November 28 - Giants at Saints
December 5 - Chargers at Jaguars
December 12 - Rams at Seahawks
December 19 - Steelers at 49ers
December 26 - Falcons at Saints

"Thursday Night Football," NFL Network
November 10 - Raiders at Chargers
November 17 - Jets at Broncos
November 24 (Thanksgiving) - 49ers at Ravens
December 1 - Eagles at Seahawks
December 8 - Browns at Steelers
December 15 - Jaguars at Falcons
December 17 (Saturday) - Cowboys at Buccaneers
December 22 - Texans at Colts
 
I think I noticed a typo.

For MNF on 10 October you put Bears vs. Lions, in Detroit. I can't remember the last time Detroit was on primetime.

Detroit Lions 2008: 0-16 Still the low mark to beat in sports history :'(
 
Both NBC and ESPN have some good games. That is if their is a season.

I can't remember the last time either Lions were on a Sunday Night or Monday Night. But its good to see. They did alright last season. The worst team last season was Carolina Panthers.
 
What, no Buffalo Bills? What in the name of Chris Berman is going on here? I'm shocked, I tell ya!
 
Furthermore, one might make an argument that since it's ESPN, as opposed to a broadcast network like NBC (or ABC, as it used to be), that it doesn't make much of a difference that the Lions are hosting a Monday night game on ESPN. Let's not forget that just a few years ago, the Cleveland Browns not only hosted a Monday night game on ESPN, but in that season, they had three Monday nighters scheduled to play! Needless to say, the Browns ended up following a phenomenal breakout season with a colossal failure - I think they lost all of their Monday night matchups that year - and ESPN now considers them an afterthought (and rightly so).
 
... I meant to write, nationally-televised games in prime-time.

But now that you bring that up: Hasn't the time come to give the Lions' Thanksgiving Day game to another team, like, say, the Patriots? It's time for a new tradition to begin.
 
DToTheJ said:
The last time the Lions hosted a Monday night game - let alone a primetime game - was ten years ago, in 2001 - back when the games were on ABC.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ap-fbn-lions-schedule,0,7724380.story

They were trounced - shut out, in fact - 35-0 by St. Louis, making NFL schedulers think twice about scheduling any nationally-televised games based in Detroit, let alone merely involving them, for the following decade.
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The Lions went 2-14 that season.
 
jsu5381m said:
DToTheJ said:
The last time the Lions hosted a Monday night game - let alone a primetime game - was ten years ago, in 2001 - back when the games were on ABC.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ap-fbn-lions-schedule,0,7724380.story

They were trounced - shut out, in fact - 35-0 by St. Louis, making NFL schedulers think twice about scheduling any nationally-televised games based in Detroit, let alone merely involving them, for the following decade.
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The Lions went 2-14 that season.
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they don't need to have good teams on Thanksgiving, people will watch the Lions and some other team with a losing record, and people will always watch the Cowboys
 
DToTheJ said:
Needless to say, the Browns ended up following a phenomenal breakout season with a colossal failure - I think they lost all of their Monday night matchups that year - and ESPN now considers them an afterthought (and rightly so).
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Browns/Steelers is usually a good game, even if the teams aren't that great, and both teams have a pretty good national fan base - lots of displaced NE Ohioans and Western Pennsylvanians out there.

I wonder who picks up the NFL Network local rights to this one...I believe either WJW/8 (Fox) or WUAB/43 (MyNet) are likely to do so this year, with a chance of it landing on WKYC/3 (NBC, Browns preseason home)...
 
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