The 2015 NFL season is kicking into gear. The actual football games don't really start for several months but things are happening to get us there. The NFL Draft gets a ton of attention as always. We have nine more days of sifting through lies and rumors. That's always a gas. But other things are swirling this week. As of yesterday all 32 teams have started offseason workouts. No football stuff just yet. It's just stretching and lifting and such but players are milling around the facilities. There's life in those buildings. A football pulse beyond film study. Players are getting ready for a new season. Even more exciting than football players stretching is today's release of the 2015 NFL Schedule. It's actually kinda funny that the schedule is so exciting seeing as everyone knows who every team plays. We've known since the end of last season. We just didn't know when teams played. Therein lies the excitement. That little unknown. Today, we'll know.
The schedule release will be televised on NFL Network at 8 PM ET. It will be a three-hour schedule release extravaganza. This big event might even draw more viewers than the Stanley Cup and NBA Playoff games that dare oppose it. Pretty crazy. The NFL is a monster. This really is big news. The NFL certainly makes it bigger than it really is but it's still big news. A lot of fall plans are made depending on the NFL schedule. Weddings. Even funerals. After today's release those plans can be confirmed. It's well known that many Green Bay Packers fans book hotel rooms for every weekend of the season just to be sure that they have accommodations for the weekends that they actually need. Now they'll be able to cancel those reservations that they don't need. I'm sure that fans of other teams do the same thing. This is a big season for me personally as the Minnesota Vikings travel to my side of the country twice this season. They play the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders in San Francisco (Santa Clara actually) and Oakland respectively. I'm not sure if that's ever happened. After tonight I'll know when those games are played and perhaps find tickets for those games immediately. Fun times.
We aren't even at the true midpoint of the offseason (the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks offseason) yet the new season feels like it's upon us. With the draft and mini-camps, voluntary and otherwise, to help us speed through the days, players will be showing up for training camp before we realize it. Then the season. The schedule for that season is given to us tonight.
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