Selected details ABC Monday Night Football Ģ003: The kickoff game's popularity and success saw it move to ABC as part of the Monday Night Football package. The Giants are also the only home team to have lost in the Kickoff Game twice-once in the very first edition of the contest, when the defending Super Bowl winner was not yet a regular participant, and again in 2012.
The New York Giants, Baltimore Ravens, and New England Patriots are the only three defending Super Bowl champions to have lost. ĭefending Super Bowl champions are 13–3 in the Kickoff Game.
With the advent of Monday Night Football in 1970 it became common for the Super Bowl champion to appear in a "showcase" game the first weekend of the season.
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Billed as the "World Series of Pro Football" the game matched the four-time champion Browns against the two-time champion Eagles and with an attendance of 71,000 was one of the largest pro football crowds to that date. 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.Īfter the merger of the NFL with the All-America Football Conference in 1949, the opening game of the 1950 NFL season was a Saturday night showcase game between the NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles and the AAFC champion Cleveland Browns. The concept of the NFL champion playing in an opening game was not altogether new, however. In 2006, NBC acquired the television rights to the Kickoff Game as part of their Sunday Night Football package. Because of the success of the first game, the rights to televise both the Kickoff Game and the pregame concert were transferred immediately after the season to ABC as part of their Monday Night Football package. In order to do so, ESPN eliminated its traditional late-October Thursday night game (held the weekend of Games 1 and 2 of the World Series), and replaced it with the opening night kickoff game. It was considered a success, increasing NFL sponsorships by $1.9 billion over the next 14 months. It was conceived as an effort to boost economic recovery in the New York and Washington areas in the wake of 9/11. The Kickoff Game was introduced in the 2002 season, under the leadership of then–NFL marketing executive John Collins and then–NFL Senior Vice President of Special Events Jim Steeg. The logo for the 2002 concert event before the Kickoff game. From 2004 onward, the defending Super Bowl champion has hosted the Kickoff Game with a couple of exceptions-in 2013, the defending champion Baltimore Ravens opened on the road because of a conflict with a previously scheduled Orioles baseball game the same day, and in 2019, the defending champion New England Patriots did not play at all in the Kickoff Game as the league instead scheduled the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears for that game to celebrate its 100th season of operation.
The Kickoff Game was introduced in the 2002 season. The remainder of the league plays their opening weekend games the following Sunday and Monday. However, in 2012, the game was moved to Wednesday to prevent conflicts with the acceptance speech of the Democratic National Convention. This first game of the season is usually scheduled for the Thursday following Labor Day and since 2004, it has been hosted by the current Super Bowl champions. A single game is held, preceded by a concert and other ceremonies. The National Football League Kickoff game, along with related festivities, marks the official start of the National Football League (NFL) regular season.
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