2008 NFL Schedule Announced!

April 23, 2008 – 11:26 pm

Good news for all football fans – the 2008 NFL schedule has been announced! Officially announced on April 15, the 2008 football season promises to be bigger, better and more exciting than ever before. And for all the Super Bowl fans out there - February 1, 2009 is the Big Day.

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.

2008 NFL season schedule

The 2008 NFL Season will be the 89th season of the National Football League, themed with the slogan ‘Believe in Now’. The Super Bowl championship game for this season, Super Bowl XLIII, is scheduled to be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on February 1, 2009.

The 2008 regular season is set to begin on September 4 when the defending-Super Bowl champion New York Giants host the Washington Redskins in the NFL Kickoff game. The season will conclude with the 2009 Pro Bowl on February 8, 2009.

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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