The official NFL Schedule was released on Thursday night, revealing what games will be played on Sunday Night Football this year.
Sunday football on NBC is the perfect way for fans to kick off the work week and get enough NFL action to hold them over until Thursday.
Who will the 2015 Super Bowl Champions, the Denver Broncos, host to open their Peyton Manning-less NFL season? Who will the Los Angeles Rams host for the first regular-season game actually in Los Angeles since 1994?
The NFL teased fans on April 7 by releasing the preseason schedule, but the real deal—the regular season matchups—will come out tonight at 8 pm ET. The season will start on Sept. 8 and run until Week 17 ends on Jan. 1 before the most holy of football events: the Super Bowl.
Each team in the league’s home and away opponents for the regular season were announced by the NFL after the end of the 2015 regular season. The dates of the NFL’s three games to be played in London this season also were previously set: Indianapolis vs. Jacksonville on Oct. 2, a currently undisclosed NFC East team vs. the Rams on Oct. 23, and Washington vs. Cincinnati on Oct. 30.
Here’s a look at the games which will be featured on Sunday Night Football for the first half of the season:
The complete “Sunday Night Football” schedule:
Week 1, Sept. 11: New England at Arizona
Week 2, Sept. 18: Green Bay at Minnesota
Week 3, Sept. 25: Chicago at Dallas
Week 4, Oct. 2: Kansas City at Pittsburgh
NOTE: Flex schedule begins Week 5
Week 5, Oct. 9: New York Giants at Green Bay
Week 6, Oct. 16: Indianapolis at Houston
Week 7, Oct. 23: Seattle at Arizona
Week 8, Oct. 30: Philadelphia at Dallas
Week 9, Nov. 6: Denver at Oakland
Week 10, Nov. 13: Seattle at New England
Week 11, Nov. 20: Green Bay at Washington
Week 12, Nov. 27: New England at New York Jets
Week 13, Dec. 4: Carolina at Seattle
Week 14, Dec. 11: Dallas at New York Giants
Week 15, Dec. 18: Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
Week 16, Dec. 25: Denver at Kansas City
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