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Th e 91st National Football League season will kick off on September 9, 2010, with the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints hosting the Minnesota Vikings in a rematch of the 2009 NFC Championship Game, to be televised on NBC. It has become traditional for the reigning Super Bowl champion to play in the opening game of the following season. The other 30 teams begin their 16-game schedule on either Sunday, September 11 or Monday, September 12. The season consists of 17 weeks of games, as every team has one bye week in which it will not play. The regular season concludes on January 2, 2011.
In 2010, the NFL with continue with a scheduling format adopted in 2002 that assures a team will play every other club in the league within a four-year span. Teams play two games against each of its three division opponents - one home, one on the road - for a total of six games. Each club also plays all four opponents in one other division within in its conference and one division in the opposite conference.
The remaining two games depend on how a team finishes in the previous season. A club that finishes first the year before will face the first-place teams from the other two divisions within its conference that it is not already playing. Second-place teams play the other second-place foes on down to the fourth-place finishers.
Washington Redskins - 2011 NFL Schedule
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