NFL 2015 Schedule Release: Super Bowl Champions Patriots, Steelers Open Season

The NFL has released the full 2015/2016 schedules and if you want to see what your favorite team will be up to this season you can check it out here. The season's opener will be a Thursday night game on Sept. 10 at 8:30 with the defending champion New England Patriots facing the Pittsburgh Steelers at home in Gillette Stadium. The matchup will be seen in the coveted Friends spot on primetime NBC. It'll be interesting to see what Tom Brady and crew have in store for the Steelers, and the rest of the NFL in general, after snapping a more-than-nine-year Super Bowl slump after winning three at the turn of the millennium.

Two other big games to look out for are the Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers and New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys. Both are rivalry games.

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On the Bears' end of things, this will be coach John Fox's regular season debut at Soldier Field. It'll be interesting to see where Jay Cutler and Matt Forte land by this time. It was rumored the two would be traded away for future draft picks.

As for the Giants, the Tom Coughlin lead team hopes to walk into this season on a high note. Last year was a disaster. They placed 3rd in the NFC East with a 6-10 record. The only shining moment was the rise of first-round pick Odell Beckham jr. The Wide Reciever from LSU made his way to Hawaii's Probowl in just his first season.

Another game to look out for in the early going is the Monday Night Football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the San Francisco 49ers. This may or may not be Adrian Peterson's return to the Minnesota as there's a chance he could be leaving the team after last year's allegations. If he does return, it would be the one-year anniversary of a spectacular game where he and the Vikings easily ran through the St. Louis Rams. That game Peterson ran for 75 yards.