2008 NFL Season to Commence on September 4
Games for the 2008 NFL Season are all set to begin on September 4. With the slogan ‘Believe in Now’, this will be the 89th edition of the game. The games will start with the NFL Kickoff Game which will feature last year’s Super Bowl Champions, New York Giants, hosting their division rivals, the Washington Redskins, at Giants Stadium.
The 2009 Super Bowl is scheduled to be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on February 1, 2009. The season will conclude with the 2009 Pro Bowl on February 8, 2009.
The NFL regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team has one week and plays sixteen games. This schedule includes six games against a team’s divisional rivals, as well as several inter-division and inter-conference games. The season currently starts on the Thursday night in the first full week of September and runs weekly to late December or early January.
At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference play in the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single-elimination tournament that culminates with the championship game, known as the Super Bowl. This game is held at a pre-selected site which is usually a city that hosts an NFL team. The following week, selected all-star players from both the AFC and NFC meet in the Pro Bowl, held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Some 2008 NFL Season trivia
- NFL’s traditional Thanksgiving Day games will be held on November 27, with the Detroit Lions hosting the Tennessee Titans.
- Despite the NFL tradition to play games on Christmas if the holiday lands on a day of the week, and the fact that Christmas lands on a Thursday in 2008, the league opted not to hold a Christmas game this season.
- This will be the second consecutive season that the league will play at least one regular season game outside the United States as part of its International Series.
- 2008 will be the first season that the league will use a new, updated logo. Unveiled on August 31, 2007 in USA Today, the new design features eight white stars, representing each of the league’s eight divisions, instead of 25 on the old logo.
- The 2008 season will mark the first time since September 21, 1992 that Brett Favre will not be the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, choosing to retire from the league after 17 seasons on March 4, 2008.
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