It’s going to be a busy night on the Beltway, from the opening Monday Night Football game, to key playoff race baseball. The patch of I-95 between Washington D.C. and Baltimore should be packed, with the cities of Philadelphia and New York also involved, Monday night’s daily sports amounts to a virtual Mid-Atlantic war.
The first Sunday of the 2013 NFL season is here, with its standard run of an early afternoon where most people watch their local teams, a marquee late afternoon game and then a prime-time battle setting the agenda. The powers of the NFC are the focus today, and the daily sports card is ably filled out with big baseball games both early and late.
The 2013 NFL season finally gets underway tonight, with the cornerstone of Thursday’s daily sports agenda being the battle in the Rocky Mountains. The Baltimore Ravens meet the Denver Broncos in a rematch of last year’s epic second-round playoff game to start the year. Kickoff is at 8:30 PM ET on NBC.
There are four games in NFL Week 1 that the nation will see, starting in the late afternoon window on Sunday afternoon and rolling through the now-traditional Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN. TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis concludes it’s Week 1 coverage with a look at the four money games…