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Posted April 4, 2008
More prime-time air for Packers
By Tom Pelissero
tpelisse@greenbaypressgazette.com
Aaron Rodgers' preseason debut as the Green Bay Packers' starting quarterback will be nationally televised, too.
The Cincinnati Bengals will visit Lambeau Field for the Bishop's Charities Game on ESPN's "Monday Night Football" at 7 p.m. Aug. 11, it was revealed when the NFL released its preseason schedule Thursday.
The Packers will travel to San Francisco and Denver in Weeks 2 and 3 of the preseason, respectively, and host Tennessee in the preseason finale — the Midwest Shrine Game, a gold-package game — Aug. 28 or 29. Dates for those games, which will be shown on statewide television (including WFRV, Channel 5), have not been determined.
The Packers' regular-season opener will be on ESPN on Sept. 8 against Minnesota. The rest of the regular-season schedule will be released sometime this month.
The preseason opener is a rematch of another Monday night exhibition in 2006, a 48-17 Bengals rout in Cincinnati. It's the seventh consecutive year the Packers will face the Titans in their preseason finale.
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