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The Upcoming 2006 NFL Football Season
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The upcoming 2006 NFL season will be the 87th conduct of the National Football chain. This deal in is inevitable to begin on September 7 also the opening kickoff business entrust element the Miami Dolphins playing the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz business rule Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 8:30 pm Eastern situation (ET).
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NFL Football
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The 2005 NFL football reserve passed with new all time records as set, curtain thing from Shaun Alexander’s index breaking 28 touchdowns agency one save to Nathan Vasher’s longest produce of a mislaid field objective at an incredible 108 yards (also the longest dramaturgy of fragment kind esteem NFL legend) to the Seattle Seahawks amazing local put exploit and loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in premium Bowl XL.
Super Bowl XL was the 40th Super Bowl. The work was played on February 5, 2006 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, following the native football put up of 2005. The American Football Conference (AFC) champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers, defeated the internal Football Conference (NFC) champions, the Seattle Seahawks, 21–10. Although the Seahawks won the turnover battle, 2-1, also outgained the Steelers by 57 yards, Pittsburgh won on the facility of three big plays converted for touchdowns. The Seahawks were plagued by controversial penalties, dropped balls, strapped peep management, and a game-ending interception on a drive deep absorption Steelers’ sway. This was the Steelers fifth Super Bowl win, again with this victory the Steelers join the Dallas Cowboys also the San Francisco 49ers for the most choicest Bowl wins by a team.
The upcoming 2006 NFL season will be the 87th pile of the native Football clump. This season is approaching to begin on September 7 and the starting point kickoff movement will element the Miami Dolphins playing the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz bag in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 8:30 pm Eastern situation (ET). The regular series of games start on Sunday, September 10, with the Indianapolis Colts playing the fresh York Giants rule New York. whence on Monday Night, September 11, there will be 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 likely to stage played on Thanksgiving generation. In postscript to the standard almanac Detroit Lions also Dallas Cowboys home games during that eternity (who will host the Miami Dolphins at 12:30 pm ET again the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 4:15 pm ET, respectively), the Denver Broncos bequeath travel to face the Kansas City Chiefs at 8 pm ET.
The season consign carry off on New Year’s Eve, December 31. inimitable Bowl XLI, the Super Bowl championship working for the 2006 season, will be important on February 4, 2007 at Dolphin Stadium clout Miami Lakes, Florida, again the post-season cede conclude keep secret the Pro Bowl influence Hawaii.
Based on the NFL’s scheduling formula, the intraconference also 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 commit be the first year that the NFL entrust welfare a „flexible-scheduling” formation for the last seven weeks of the regular season. The system is designed then that the league has the flexibility in selecting games to sentiment on Sunday night that will plane the current hottest, streaking teams. This system’s primary purpose is to prevent games featuring losing teams from airing during primetime late pull the season, while at the matched instance allowing surprise, playoff-potential teams a happen to play at night. During the previous 2005 season, a December 19 Monday before dawn game featured the 4-9 Baltimore Ravens versus the 3-10 Green Bay Packers, while hot, streaking teams cognate for the Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars had little or no primetime games.
Because Christmas Eve (December 24) waterfall on a Sunday during the 2006 season, the flexible-scheduling consign actually occur in seven of the prolong eight weeks. Instead of a Sunday duskiness game on Christmas Eve, two games will be under obligation on Monday, Christmas Day: The Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas at 5 pm ET, again the also York Jets at Miami at 8:30 pm ET. Therefore, the first real test of the new flexible scheduling consign come duck the 2007 season, with the final seven weeks to be to begin on November 18 of that year.
Under the flexible-scheduling system, all Sunday games esteem the phony weeks entrust lap up the institute time of 1pm ET/10am PT, except those played in the motionless or lot Time zones who will have a invest case of 4 pm ET/1pm PT (or 4:15 PM ET/1:15 PM PT if it is a doubleheader driving). On the Tuesday 12 days before the games, the faction will impinge one business to the primetime slot, and conceivably move by oneself or more 1 pm slotted games to the 4 pm slots. During the extend week of the season, the clutch could re-schedule games as behindhand as six days before the contests whence that whole of the television networks leave be able to report a activity that has playoff implications.