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‘Thursday Night Football’ Schedule Kicks Off With Bears-Packers

NFL Net­work on Tues­day announced its expanded 13-game, regular-season, prime-time “Thurs­day Night Foot­ball” sched­ule, which kicks off in Week 2 (Sept. 13) and fea­tures nine 2011 play­off teams, includ­ing six that won divi­sion crowns and both NFC Cham­pi­onship Game oppo­nents (New York Giants and San Fran­cisco 49ers). Game times for the con­tests are 8 p.m. ET.

Among the high­lights of NFL Network’s 2012 schedule:

• The opener fea­tures the 185th meet­ing between Chicago Bears and Green Bay Pack­ers — the most-played rivalry in NFL history.

• No. 1 drafted quar­ter­backs face off in Week 3 — the Giants’ Eli Man­ning (two-time Super Bowl MVP) and Carolina’s Cam New­ton (2011 Offen­sive Rookie of the Year).

• Pey­ton Manning’s first start as Bron­cos QB at Oakland’s “Black Hole.”

• Indi­anapo­lis and its new No. 1 over­all draft pick at Jacksonville.

• New Orleans vis­its Atlanta in a meet­ing of clubs that have won the past three NFC South titles.

• Nine divi­sional matchups.

The crit­i­cally acclaimed “Thurs­day Night Foot­ball” broad­cast team returns, fea­tur­ing Emmy-nominated game ana­lyst Mike May­ock, play-by-play announcer Brad Nessler and side­line reporter Alex Flanagan.

NFL Network’s 2012 “Thurs­day Night Foot­ball” schedule

Week 2: Thurs­day, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. ET
Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers

Week 3: Thurs­day, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. ET
New York Giants at Car­olina Panthers

Week 4: Thurs­day, Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. ET
Cleve­land Browns at Bal­ti­more Ravens

Week 5: Thurs­day, Oct. 4 at 8 p.m. ET
Ari­zona Car­di­nals at St. Louis Rams

Week 6: Thurs­day, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. ET
Pitts­burgh Steel­ers at Ten­nessee Titans

Week 7: Thurs­day, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. ET
Seat­tle Sea­hawks at San Fran­cisco 49ers

Week 8: Thurs­day, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. ET
Tampa Bay Buc­ca­neers at Min­nesota Vikings

Week 9: Thurs­day, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. ET
Kansas City Chiefs at San Diego Chargers

Week 10: Thurs­day, Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. ET
Indi­anapo­lis Colts at Jack­sonville Jaguars

Week 11: Thurs­day, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. ET
Miami Dol­phins at Buf­falo Bills

Week 13: Thurs­day, Nov. 29 at 8 p.m. ET
New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons

Week 14: Thurs­day, Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. ET
Den­ver Bron­cos at Oak­land Raiders

Week 15: Thurs­day, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. ET
Cincin­nati Ben­gals at Philadel­phia Eagles

For the entire 2012 NFL sched­ule, visit www.nfl.com.

This year marks the sev­enth sea­son of live regular-season, prime-time games on NFL Net­work. Last year’s edi­tion of “Thurs­day Night Foot­ball” was the most-watched in the network’s his­tory, with a record aver­age of 7.3 mil­lion view­ers per game (includ­ing OTAs).

Each NFL Net­work game tele­cast will fea­ture a live, two-hour pregame show. In addi­tion, a one-hour postgame show will wrap up the action with inter­views, high­lights and press conferences.

NFL.com LIVE again will offer com­ple­men­tary “Thurs­day Night Foot­ball” game cov­er­age, includ­ing select live video, sta­tis­tics and inter­ac­tive applications.

NFL Net­work games also will be car­ried on free, over-the-air tele­vi­sion in the city of the vis­it­ing team and in the city where the game is played, if the game is sold out 72 hours in advance of kickoff.

NFL Net­work airs seven days a week, 24 hours a day on a year-round basis and is the only tele­vi­sion net­work ded­i­cated entirely to the NFL and the sport of foot­ball. For more infor­ma­tion, log on to www.nfl.com/nflnetwork. NFL.com is the exclu­sive inter­net home of NFL Network.

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