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The concept of the NFL champion playing in an opening game was not altogether new, however. From 1934 to 1976, the first game of the pre-season was the Chicago All-Star Game , an exhibition match featuring the previous season's NFL champions against an all-rookie team of college all-stars held annually in Soldier Field in Chicago .
The following are the standings of current National Football League teams' games taking place on their opening days. The standings shown here date back to 1933. Since 1933, there have been a total of 1,579 opening day games played. Standings are current as of the final day of the 2007 NFL season's opening weekend, September 10, 2007.
The Packers defeated the Chiefs in the first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (Super Bowl I). The Super Bowl is the annual American football game that determines the champion of the National Football League (NFL). The game culminates a season that begins in the previous calendar year, and is the conclusion of the NFL playoffs.
CBS averaged 17.79 million for its six games, its most watched Week 1 singleheader since it reacquired NFL rights in 1998. Most of CBS' affiliates had games in the 1 p.m. EDT window, but New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Pittsburgh got Jim Harbaugh's first game as coach of the Los Angeles Chargers against the Las Vegas Raiders at 4:05 p.m. EDT.
The Super Bowl — the NFL's championship game — pits the winner of the American Football Conference against the winner of the National Football Conference, with the victor receiving the Vince ...
The highest-scoring game overall was a 1966 game between the Washington Redskins and New York Giants, which produced a combined 113 points with a score of 72-41. The most points scored by one team in a single game is the 73 the Chicago Bears scored in the 1940 NFL Championship Game , which is not included on this list, as their opponents scored ...
The NFL averaged 21.0 million viewers per game during the league's opening week, making it the most-watched Week 1 on record. ... All told, 123 million people saw at least part of one game, its ...
NFL's Greatest Games is a series of television programs that air on NFL Network, ESPN and related networks. [ citation needed ] It started airing as prime-time specials on ESPN in the 1997 fall season.