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Skins v. Vikings on MNF
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:31 pm
by The Hogster
The Redskins will open the double header for Monday Night Football against the Vikings. The game will be in DC, and will mark the unveiling of Al Saunders new offense. Randel El, B-Lloyd, Archuletta,Fauria and Andre Carter's debuts at Fed Ex.
In another headline, this game marks the return of Fred Smoot to Washington after departing via free agency to the Vikings. Brad Johson will also make his return to Washington.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:32 pm
by gottoloveit
wow
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:34 pm
by The Hogster
Yoda says: "A life..Get"
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:41 pm
by REDEEMEDSKIN
If anyone cannot make it, I'd love to buy 2 tickets. I'm putting my name in the hat now. Thanks. 
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:42 pm
by Justice Hog
Is there a link saying this? Can't find one.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:43 pm
by REDEEMEDSKIN
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:52 pm
by rick301
Can't wait ... our first win
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:54 pm
by skinsRin
Nice! Are all monday nighters going to start at 7pm?
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:56 pm
by JansenFan
There will be a 7pm game and a 9pm game it looks like. Everyone will get the 7, and then at 1015, the broadcast you get will depend on your market.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:59 pm
by skinsRin
JansenFan wrote:There will be a 7pm game and a 9pm game it looks like. Everyone will get the 7, and then at 1015, the broadcast you get will depend on your market.
Thanks Jensen, who plays at 9pm?
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:04 pm
by cj17
Not correct. The opening Monday Night has a game at 7 and a game at 10:15pm.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:15 pm
by RedskinsFreak
For the first week, it's a MNF Doubleheader (2nd game is Chargers at Raiders) on ESPN.
After that, there's only one, and it starts at 8:30.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:20 pm
by Hoss
I see where they say the Bucs will be playing the CowGirls on Thanksgiving. I thought it was mentioned a while back that the Skins were playing Dallas on Thanksgiving.
Anyone else recall this?
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:22 pm
by RedskinsFreak
HOSS wrote:I see where they say the Bucs will be playing the CowGirls on Thanksgiving. I thought it was mentioned a while back that the Skins were playing Dallas on Thanksgiving.
Anyone else recall this?
Yeah, I recall it. It made several publications after starting in, I believe, a NYC paper.
Just goes to show that not all preliminary reports such as this are accurate. Also doesn't mean you brush em all off as having no chance of being right, either.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:22 pm
by frankcal20
I do but i guess it was false.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:04 pm
by Redskins Rule
http://www.redskins.com/news/newsDetail.jsp?id=16127
For the second time in four years, the Redskins and FedExField will be part of the NFL's annual kickoff weekend extravaganza.
The league has announced that Washington's 2006 season opener will be against the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. ET at FedExField.
The NFL will announce the full schedule sometime in April.
The Redskins-Vikings game will be part of the first regularly scheduled Monday Night Football games on ESPN. The Redskins-Vikings contest will be followed by an AFC West meeting between the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders at 10:15 p.m. ET.
Ladell Betts against the Vikings in the 2004 season finale. (Don Wright Photo)
Also, the NFL announced the Thanksgiving schedule and the Redskins are not part of the package for games that day. There had been several published reports earlier this offseason suggesting that the Redskins would be one of six teams playing on Thanksgiving day in 2006.
For the fifth year in a row, the NFL will kick off its season on a Thursday night, with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Miami Dolphins on Sept. 7 at 8:30 p.m. ET. The game will be broadcast nationally on NBC.
On Sunday, Sept. 10, the Jacksonville Jaguars will host the Dallas Cowboys at 4:15 p.m. ET in a game broadcast by FOX. The New York Giants will host the Indianapolis Colts--a matchup that features quarterback brothers Eli and Peyton Manning--at 8:15 p.m. ET on NBC.
The Thanksgiving day games are as follows: Miami at Detroit, Tampa Bay at Dallas and Denver at Kansas City.
The Redskins and Vikings last played in January 2005 in the regular season finale for both teams. The Redskins won that contest by a score of 21-18 at FedExField.
The Vikings have undergone significant change since that meeting. Brad Childress has taken over as head coach and the team has traded quarterback Daunte Culpepper to the Dolphins and wide receiver Randy Moss to the Oakland Raiders.
In September 2003, the Redskins were part of the NFL's kickoff weekend when they hosted the New York Jets in a nationally televised Thursday night game. The Redskins won that game 16-13.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:15 pm
by skinsRin
Damn! Well that blows! I love watching football on Thanksgiving day and there would of been nothing better then facing the Cowboys that day. Oh well!
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:46 pm
by gay4pacman
REDEEMEDSKIN wrote:http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2386175
all details can be found here
disregard post
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:08 pm
by Sir_Monk
Damn! Well that blows! I love watching football on Thanksgiving day and there would of been nothing better then facing the Cowboys that day. Oh well!
I for one am kind of glad they are not. If memory serves we are historicly bad vs the Cowboys on Thanksgiving day. Also I don't think my parents have the NFL network, and that would mean a trip to a bar on thanksgiving day which would not fly.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:51 pm
by MtSherwood7
I cant wait to see Smoot trying to cover Moss, Brad Johnson getting pummeled by our D and the 'Skins starting off the season 1-0 for the 5th straight year.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:21 pm
by air_hog
This sucks. Well, it's cool that we are on Monday Night (but yet again we have to share it with some other teams...)
But what I mean by saying it sucks, is because I love waking up Kickoff Sunday morning and watching the Skins play.
Now I have to wait another day
And who wants to see the Cowboys play the Bucs on Thanksgiving??? Not only does Cowboys/Skins have more history, but the rivalry is comming back full force and Dallass/Washington would get huge ratings on Thanksgiving.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:29 pm
by DCGloryYears828791
skinsRin wrote:Damn! Well that blows! I love watching football on Thanksgiving day and there would of been nothing better then facing the Cowboys that day. Oh well!
In keeping with tradition, maybe this year the Cowgirls can do a halftime ceremony Retiring Michael Irvin's Coke Habit, and we can woop up on that ...
I definitely didn't want to play them on Thanksgiving. By the way who is on the Vikings anymore? Im going to love watching Santana blow by SMOOOOOT and for the first play of the year, wr reverse option pass. Go Skins....
GEORGE MASON PATRIOTS!!!!!! FINAL FOUR!!!!!!!!!!
"I guarantee we will be in the final four. All of Connecticut, im saying it right now, we will not lose to George Mason." Rashad Anderson, Senior Guard, UCONN
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:15 pm
by Deadskins
Sir_Monk wrote:Damn! Well that blows! I love watching football on Thanksgiving day and there would of been nothing better then facing the Cowboys that day. Oh well!
I for one am kind of glad they are not. If memory serves we are historicly bad vs the Cowboys on Thanksgiving day. Also I don't think my parents have the NFL network, and that would mean a trip to a bar on thanksgiving day which would not fly.
Thanksgiving games are always nationally televised.
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:51 pm
by gay4pacman
not the ones on the nfl channel
you have to have direct tv
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:07 pm
by Punu
the nfl network comes on other services now... not just direct tv. the only difference is that you have to have direct tv in order to have the league pass. (watch all the games on sundays) Any games shown on the NFL network can be ordered by a lot more services than dtv now though.