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Having pored over the 2015 NFL schedule, Elliot Harrison highlights the best of the action set to play out under the lights in his prime-time primer. Have your own favorites on the after-dark slate? Hit him up .THE KICKOFF GAME: at , Thurs., Sept. 10 (NBC). This matchup made it in my , and for good reason. Pittsburgh was in line to do some damage in the playoffs last season before was in . , fresh off signing , will have a chance to not only put the in a better position come the postseason with a win, but also to a sert that the great QB discu sion shouldn't always start with and end with . Worth noting: , it is highly unlikely Bell will be available for this game. Either way, I thought New England at Dallas would have made for the best kickoff game, but apparently, the league is married to having the defending champs open up at home. I don't think it needs to be.BEST THURSDAY NIGHT GAME: at , Week 10 (NFL Network). Who can't wait to see Rex Andrew Whitworth Jersey Ryan walk into MetLife for the first time since he was and ? It will be hard not to pull for the guy, considering his former GM in New York gave him the equivalent of an '89 Topaz with a busted transmi sion at quarterback. The real fun in this contest might be watching get something going -- or try to, at least -- against the ' front seven. Not to mention, the can cover all day with and , while the ' pa s rush gives quarterbacks about 2.5 seconds of liberty in the pocket. It will come down to and ... . There, I said it, Mafia. BEST SUNDAY NIGHT GAME: at , Week 2 (NBC). The rematch of was almost No. 1 on our list of . Unfortunately, it was also , and in that contest, Seattle's defense dominated throughout, while looked at as if he were Danny DeVito jumping up and down naked ... which is to say, not at all. 's coverage will do that to folks. By the way, notice that this year's matchup is at Lambeau Field -- and I'm already taking Green Bay.BEST MONDAY NIGHT GAME: at , Week 3 (ESPN). On the subject of Lambeau, no joint crams more history into its beams than the ' stadium. And with the 2015 NFL campaign set to culminate in the 50th edition of the , Kansas City at Green Bay is a fun one. The rematch of I should feature the same uni matchup, with the in their road whites and the in their home greens. That bit of history aside, this figures to be an excellent inter-conference showdown -- as of this writing, I have Green Bay in the and Kansas City winning the AFC West.HISTORICAL SYMMETRY: at , Week 2, Monday Night Football (ESPN) AND at , Week 15, Sunday Night Football (NBC).- isn't the only rematch of a legendary on tap this year. I love at ; New York's win in III is right up there with the U.S. hockey team beating the Soviets in the '80 Winter Olympics, as well as a decade later. It is THE upset. -, meanwhile, will bring back memories of two very entertaining s: XVI and XXIII. Which quarterback from the Cla s of 2011 -- Cincy's or San Francisco's -- will outperform the other? Will either outpace their le s-than-stellar showings in 2014? By this point in the season, we should know Darious Williams Jersey if Niners coach Jim Tomsula is working with an '89 Topaz of his own.SATURDAY NIGHT FUN: at , Week 15 (NFL Network). In the interest of full disclosure, I love Saturday Night Football, even without (I think my family had the .) If performs like he did from September through November last year, well, this inter-conference deal will be more like a Styrofoam disco ball than the real McCoy. , how bare bones will the New York offense be under Chan Gailey with Smith at QB versus, say, ? And how ineffectual will the ' running game be with or against that front?TURKEY TRENDS: at , Week 12 (NBC). One thing the NFL has done that has flown under the radar has been locking up divisional opponents on night. Last year, we saw (a matchup we'll get this year on Thursday Night Football in Week 7). In 2013, the and played while all of our bellies were full of stuffing (wonderful holiday food) and cranberries (totally overrated). This year? How about Chicago at Green Bay? And this installment of the NFL's oldest rivalry will have a neat twist: It will come 90 years after Red Grange's debut with the .The ' Grange-starring barnstorming tour of 1925 has largely been credited with putting pro football on the map, or at least carving out real estate in the newspapers. That was always the problem for the NFL in those days: not getting buried in the back of the sports section amid the ads for Murray's hair wax. The wild popularity of Grange's dash acro s America with George Halas' Chicago club piqued interest in what is now the top sport in the country. It had to start somewhere. And it did Eric Dickerson Jersey ... with a 0-0 tie between the and Grange's on Day of that year.SANTA SETTLES THE AFC WEST? at , Week 16, Thursday Night Football (NFL Network). Yep; on Dec. 24, while a lot of us are celebrating Christmas Eve -- and parents on the West Coast are squeezing in last-second shopping trips to buy Bo s Monster to tuck under the tree -- the and will be kicking off in Oakland. A Week 16 divisional game on a holiday? Yes, please. As long as isn't Kenny Young Jersey wearing a certain shade of Tenne see blue this year, this matchup should be fun and relevant, as the AFC West figures to be tiiiiiight. Of course, if the Bolts are starting at quarterback? Yeah, not so much. Although it would be fun to see whether he could hang with in the wake of all that hype.PRIME RIB WEEKEND: If there is a top week for prime-time games, it just might be Week 8. That's important, too, as it seemed like last year included an abnormal number of blowouts. To put it le s nicely, we don't want to see , Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights. Week 8 features the at the on Thursday, presenting a good opportunity to a se s Miami's viability in the AFC East following the signing of (and the unloading of a truckload of cash in front of) . On Sunday, and will meet for the first time since 2008, Rodgers' first year as a starter. Monday features at , a clash between the top overall picks from the 2011 and 2012 drafts -- we detailed our enthusiasm for that one in our piece.OTHER PRIME SELECTIONS:Per the usual, there are plenty of gems on the prime-time schedule this season. Here's a look at some sparkling matchups that didn't get mentioned above: at , Week 1, Sunday Night Football (NBC): and have faced each other more than any other quarterbacks in the league. Oh, and this one includes another edition of Jr. vs. . at , Week 2, Thursday Night Football (CBS/NFL Network): The must split with the to compete in the AFC West. at , Week 5, Thursday Night Football (CBS/NFL Network): A rematch of . Houston is closing the gap on Indy; can't wait to see running down . at , Week 5, Monday Night Football (ESPN): This is the kind of intra-conference matchup you don't see every year; it could be a playoff preview. will don the powder blues, guaranteed. at , Week 6, Sunday Night Football (NBC): The combatants in last year's AFC Grant Haley Jersey Championship Game meet again. Hope this contest doesn't, uh, . OK, enough about the footballs, already. at , Week 9, Sunday Night Football (NBC): returns to Dallas for what figures to be a huge NFC East faceoff. at , Week 10, Sunday Night Football (NBC): Love this NFC West matchup. Let's hope the play better than they did in prime time against the . Ugly. at , Week 11, Sunday Night Football (NBC): A top-flight divisional matchup that I expect will have serious implications. at , Week 11, Monday Night Football (ESPN): How close are the to being able to topple the in the AFC East? We'll find out. I'd like this game a bit more if it were in Buffalo. at , Week 12, Sunday Night Football (NBC): vs. , po sibly for the last time. at , Week 13, Sunday Night Football (NBC): A rematch of on our list of . Will and throw for 450 apiece? at , Week 13, Monday Night Football (ESPN): Washington 'd the into submi sion when these teams , while a battered walked around like Gollum. Cla sic matchup.Follow Elliot Harrison on Twitter .
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