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We told you earlier that Tennessee and Pittsburgh would open the 2009 NFL season with a Thursday nighter, and the NFL has now announced the remainder of its national TV schedule for Week 1, along with the Thanksgiving Day slate.The first Sunday night of the year, Sept. 13, will feature an NFC North grudge match between the Bears and Packers on NBC. As with 2008, the league will save two games for Monday Night Football's debut -- Terrell Owens and Buffalo will travel to New England at 7 p.m. on Sept. 14, followed by Oakland visiting San Diego at 10:30, with both games on ESPN.
Once again, Thanksgiving Day holds a triple-header: Green Bay at Detroit, Oakland at Dallas, then Denver at the Giants in the nightcap.
That Buffalo-at-New England showdown could take on any number of storylines. In fact, Owens' Bills debut may take a backseat to Tom Brady's return -- and we all know how much T.O. likes playing second-fiddle -- though the implications of a huge Week 1 divisional showdown, and the Patriots' adjustment to losing Josh McDaniels to Denver could get some play as well.
The Thanksgiving finale could be that holiday's highlight, but it's worth noting that there wasn't even so much as a hint out of the NFL owners' meeting this week that the league could strip Detroit of its traditional game. This will mark Detroit's 70th year hosting a Thanksgiving Day game, and Green Bay's 19th trip in for the occasion. Dallas, meanwhile, needs to start getting some more entertaining opponents for its hosting duties. In the last three years, the 'Boys have pummeled Seattle, the Jets and Tampa Bay. Not since 2005, when Denver won at Dallas in overtime, has the second Thanksgiving Day game been even remotely entertaining.
Is it too much to ask the Eagles, Giants or Redskins to get in there just once? The Cowboys haven't hosted a divisional foe on Turkey Day since Washington visited in 2002.
The full NFL schedule will be released in April.
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