...and here we go again! Despite the NFL's best efforts to hide it from me - there is no apparent link to it on the NFL OR NFL Network website - I have found this year's TV schedule for the 65 preseason games. (See end of this post.)
The NFL Preseason Challenge is to watch all 65 preseason games aired on television. It will start this Sunday night with, as always, the Hall of Fame game, this year between Dallas and Cincinnati. Or, in other words, three-plus hours of NBC announcers bleating about prima donna wide receivers. Watching the games as they air is nigh physically impossible, especially since I like sleeping and attempting to have a life, so recording games and watching them later is within the rules. The ultimate goal is to see all 65 games before the NFL regular season begins, which this season is Thursday, September 9th at 7:30 CDT.
I do a running blog entry here of each game I watch, as a way to prove I was paying attention all four quarters. Blogger is an awful tool for this, but it's the best I've got, so I often end up posting the whole game account after the game.
The biggest hurdle I have found toward completing the Challenge, for better or worse, is... employment. 2004's the only Preseason Challenge I've ever completed because I wasn't working that August.
Most years since then, I've failed pretty miserably, but football glutton that I am, at least attempting the Challenge has become an annual tradition for me. I even tried to warm up for it this year by recording and trying to watch every game of the World Cup. Should have been easier, right, since the typical soccer game is an hour shorter than a football game?
I've only made it to the knockout round. 48 games down, 16 to go.
Oh, and the World Cup ended three weeks ago. I heard Spain or somebody won.
Here's this year's preseason TV schedule, IN CENTRAL TIME. Unless otherwise noted, the game is a re-broadcast airing on NFL Network.
Sunday, Aug. 8
7 p.m. CDT - Cincinnati Bengals vs. Dallas Cowboys (NBC)
Thursday, Aug. 12
7 p.m. CDT – Carolina Panthers at Baltimore Ravens (ESPN)
10 p.m. CDT - New Orleans Saints at New England Patriots
Friday, Aug. 13
8:30 a.m. CDT - Carolina Panthers at Baltimore Ravens
2:30 p.m. CDT - Oakland Raiders at Dallas Cowboys
6:30 p.m. CDT - Buffalo Bills at Washington Redskins -- NFLN live
9:30 p.m. CDT - Jacksonville Jaguars at Philadelphia Eagles
Saturday, Aug. 14
12:30 a.m. CDT - Kansas City Chiefs at Atlanta Falcons
6 p.m. CDT - Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Miami Dolphins -- NFLN live
9 p.m. CDT - Tennessee Titans at Seattle Seahawks -- NFLN live
Sunday, Aug. 15
12 a.m. CDT - Chicago Bears at San Diego Chargers
9 a.m. CDT - Detroit Lions at Pittsburgh Steelers
12 p.m. CDT - San Francisco 49ers at Indianapolis Colts -- NFLN live
6 p.m. CDT - Denver Broncos at Cincinnati Bengals -- NFLN live
9 p.m. CDT - Minnesota Vikings at St. Louis Rams
Monday, Aug. 16
12 a.m. CDT - Houston Texans at Arizona Cardinals
3 p.m. CDT - Cleveland Browns at Green Bay Packers
7 p.m. CDT – New York Giants vs. New York Jets (ESPN)
Thursday, Aug. 19
12 p.m. CDT - New York Giants at New York Jets
7 p.m. CDT – New England at Atlanta (FOX)
10 p.m. CDT - Indianapolis Colts at Buffalo Bills
Friday, Aug. 20
12 p.m. CDT - New England Patriots at Atlanta Falcons
7 p.m. CDT – Philadelphia at Cincinnati (FOX)
Saturday, Aug. 21
3 p.m. CDT - Philadelphia Eagles at Cincinnati Bengals
6 p.m. CDT - Pittsburgh Steelers at New York Giants -- NFLN live
9 p.m. CDT - Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks -- NFLN live
Sunday, Aug. 22
12 a.m. CDT - Houston Texans at New Orleans Saints
3 a.m. CDT - Kansas City Chiefs at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
6 a.m. CDT - New York Jets at Carolina Panthers
9 a.m. CDT - Baltimore Ravens at Washington Redskins
12 p.m. CDT - Detroit Lions at Denver Broncos
3 p.m. CDT - Dallas Cowboys at San Diego Chargers
7 p.m. CDT – Minnesota at San Francisco (NBC)
10 p.m. CDT - Oakland Raiders at Chicago Bears
Monday, Aug. 23
3 p.m. CDT - St. Louis Rams at Cleveland Browns
7 p.m. CDT – Arizona at Tennessee (ESPN)
10 p.m. CDT - Miami Dolphins at Jacksonville Jaguars
Tuesday, Aug. 24
12 p.m. CDT - Minnesota Vikings at San Francisco 49ers
Thursday, Aug. 26
12 p.m. CDT - Arizona Cardinals at Tennessee Titans
7 p.m. CDT – Indianapolis at Green Bay (ESPN)
10 p.m. CDT - St. Louis Rams at New England Patriots
Friday, Aug. 27
1 a.m. CDT - Indianapolis Colts at Green Bay Packers
7 p.m. CDT – San Diego at New Orleans (CBS)
10 p.m. CDT - Philadelphia Eagles at Kansas City Chiefs
Saturday, Aug. 28
1 a.m. CDT- Atlanta Falcons at Miami Dolphins
1 p.m. CDT - Washington Redskins at New York Jets
4 p.m. CDT - Cleveland Browns at Detroit Lions – NFLN live
7 p.m. CDT – Dallas at Houston (CBS)
10 p.m. CDT - Seattle Seahawks at Minnesota Vikings
Sunday, Aug. 29
1 a.m. CDT - Cincinnati Bengals at Buffalo Bills
6 a.m. CDT - San Diego Chargers at New Orleans Saints
9 a.m. CDT - Tennessee Titans at Carolina Panthers
12 p.m. CDT - New York Giants at Baltimore Ravens
3 p.m. CDT - Arizona Cardinals at Chicago Bears
7 p.m. CDT – Pittsburgh at Denver (FOX)
10 p.m. CDT - San Francisco 49ers at Oakland Raiders
Monday, Aug. 30
1 a.m. CDT - Jacksonville Jaguars at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
3 p.m. CDT - Dallas Cowboys at Houston Texans
Wednesday, Sept. 1
12 p.m. CDT - Pittsburgh Steelers at Denver Broncos
Thursday, Sept. 2
6 p.m. CDT - New England Patriots at New York Giants -- NFLN live
9 p.m. CDT- Washington Redskins at Arizona Cardinals -- NFLN live
Friday, Sept. 3
12 a.m. CDT- San Diego Chargers at San Francisco 49ers
5 a.m. CDT - Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Houston Texans
8 a.m. CDT - Baltimore Ravens at St. Louis Rams
11 p.m. CDT - Buffalo Bills at Detroit Lions
2 p.m. CDT - Denver Broncos at Minnesota Vikings
6 p.m. CDT - Miami Dolphins at Dallas Cowboys
Saturday, Sept. 4
11 a.m. CDT - Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs
6 a.m. CDT - Atlanta Falcons at Jacksonville Jaguars
12 p.m. CDT - Chicago Bears at Cleveland Browns
3 p.m. CDT - New York Jets at Philadelphia Eagles
7 p.m. CDT - Carolina Panthers at Pittsburgh Steelers
10 p.m. CDT - Seattle Seahawks at Oakland Raiders
Sunday, Sept. 5
9 a.m. CDT - New Orleans Saints at Tennessee Titans
12 p.m. CDT - Cincinnati Bengals at Indianapolis Colts
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