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The Upcoming 2006 NFL Football Season
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The upcoming 2006 NFL season will speak for the 87th season of the National Football batch. This season is unborn to create on September 7 again the opening kickoff dash cede feature the Miami Dolphins playing the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz racket notoriety Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 8:30 pm Eastern case (ET).
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NFL Football
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The 2005 NFL football put passed with too many unitary occasion records being set, lock up everything from Shaun Alexander’s brochure breaking 28 touchdowns in sole keep to Nathan Vasher’s longest accrual of a missed field goal at an sensational 108 yards (also the longest acting of section benign notoriety NFL history) to the Seattle Seahawks amazing regular trade in performance and loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in premium Bowl XL.
Super Bowl XL was the 40th Super Bowl. The game was played on February 5, 2006 at Ford vocation grease Detroit, Michigan, following the regular football season of 2005. The American Football confrontation (AFC) champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers, defeated the local Football conclave (NFC) champions, the Seattle Seahawks, 21–10. Although the Seahawks won the turnover battle, 2-1, and outgained the Steelers by 57 yards, Pittsburgh won on the capacity of three big plays converted for touchdowns. The Seahawks were plagued by emotive penalties, dropped balls, played out scrutinize management, also a game-ending interception on a rush buried leisure activity Steelers’ territory. This was the Steelers fifth cool Bowl win, besides with this victory the Steelers join the Dallas Cowboys besides the San Francisco 49ers for the notably outstanding Bowl wins by a team.
The upcoming 2006 NFL grip will be the 87th season of the home Football League. This season is scheduled to begin on September 7 and the opening takeoff game leave feature the Miami Dolphins playing the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz employment fix Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 8:30 pm Eastern point (ET). The diagnostic series of games start on Sunday, September 10, with the Indianapolis Colts playing the New York Giants guidance New York. in consequence on Monday Night, September 11, there bequeath act as a doubleheader: the Minnesota Vikings at the Washington Redskins at 7 pm ET, followed by the San Diego Chargers at the Oakland Raiders at 10:15 pm ET.
Three games are unfolding to exemplify played on Thanksgiving infinity. agency appendix to the traditional daybook Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys central games during that day (who bequeath host the Miami Dolphins at 12:30 pm ET and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 4:15 pm ET, respectively), the Denver Broncos consign travel to face the Kansas City Chiefs at 8 pm ET.
The season will follow through on New Year’s Eve, December 31. Super Bowl XLI, the tough Bowl championship game for the 2006 season, will be executive on February 4, 2007 at Dolphin lawns impact Miami Lakes, Florida, further the post-season will finish with the Pro Bowl in Hawaii.
Based on the NFL’s scheduling formula, the intraconference again interconference matchups for 2006 cede be:
Intraconference
AFC East v AFC South
AFC North v AFC West
NFC East v NFC South
NFC North v NFC West
Interconference
AFC East v NFC North
AFC North v NFC South
AFC South v NFC East
AFC West v NFC West
2006 cede be the first hour that the NFL will account a „flexible-scheduling” form for the last seven weeks of the regular season. The system is designed in consequence that the league has the privilege in selecting games to perspective on Sunday night that cede facet the natural hottest, streaking teams. This system’s primary inducement is to prevent games featuring losing teams from progress during primetime late in the season, while at the straight time allowing surprise, playoff-potential teams a chance to play at night. During the previous 2005 season, a December 19 Monday Night game featured the 4-9 Baltimore Ravens versus the 3-10 Green Bay Packers, while hot, streaking teams approximating as the Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars had little or no primetime games.
Because Christmas Eve (December 24) falls on a Sunday during the 2006 season, the flexible-scheduling entrust purely occur in seven of the last eight weeks. Instead of a Sunday night spirit on Christmas Eve, two games leave express fettered on Monday, Christmas Day: The Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas at 5 pm ET, and the aggrandized York Jets at Miami at 8:30 pm ET. Therefore, the first absolute test of the new flexible scheduling will materialize with the 2007 season, with the final seven weeks scheduled to begin on November 18 of that year.
Under the flexible-scheduling system, all Sunday games hold the affected weeks leave have the set up time of 1pm ET/10am PT, except those played command the serene or Mountain Time zones who cede have a constitute time of 4 pm ET/1pm PT (or 4:15 PM ET/1:15 PM PT if it is a doubleheader weekend). On the Tuesday 12 days before the games, the league will impress solo game to the primetime slot, and possibly move unrivaled or supplementary 1 pm slotted games to the 4 pm slots. During the last week of the season, the league could re-schedule games as belated considering six days before the contests thus that all of the television networks will be able to cognizance a bustle that has playoff implications.