Title: ESPN Sunday Night Football
Content: First preseason game: Chicago Bears at Miami Dolphins, August 13, 1987 ; First regular season game: New England Patriots at New York Giants, November 8, 1987 (Giants won, 17&ndash;10) ; First telecast during opening week of season: Oakland Raiders at Kansas City Chiefs, September 6, 1998 (Chiefs won, 28&ndash;8) ; First regular season game outside the U.S.: San Francisco 49ers vs. Arizona Cardinals at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico, October 2, 2005 (Cardinals won 31&ndash;14; see also: Fútbol Americano) ; Last telecast: St. Louis Rams at Dallas Cowboys, January 1, 2006 (Rams won, 21&ndash;10) 
Title: 2020–21 NFL playoffs
Content: As per an annual rotation used by the NFL since 1997 and made official in 2002, the NFC Championship Game will be the first game played on January 24 at 3:05 p.m. EST, followed by the AFC Championship Game at 6:40 p.m. EST. 
Title: NBC Sunday Night Football results
Content:  game between the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons, and the Cleveland Browns made their first SNF appearance since 2008. In Week 15, the Buffalo Bills were flexed to SNF in a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers; this was just their second appearance on the package, the first being in 2007. The Seattle Seahawks–Philadelphia Eagles Wild Card Playoff game kicked off at 4:40 pm ET, while the Divisional game between the Minnesota Vikings and San Francisco 49ers kicked off at 4:35 pm ET. Seahawks–Eagles game was flexed out for the Packers–49ers game.<BR> Vikings–Chargers game was flexed out for the Bills–Steelers game.
Title: NFL on Thanksgiving Day
Content:  DuMont was the first network to televise Thanksgiving games in ; CBS took over in, and in , the first color television broadcast of an NFL game was the Thanksgiving match between the Lions and the Baltimore Colts. Starting in 2012, all three broadcast networks with NFL rights will carry one game apiece. The first two games are split between CBS and Fox. These games are rotated annually, with CBS getting the 12:30 p.m. (EST) "early" game, and Fox getting the 4:30 p.m. "late" game in even-numbered years, while Fox likewise gets the "early" game and CBS the "late" game 
Title: NFL on CBS
Content:  national Monday night telecast except in St. Louis. Jack Drees and Frank Gifford called the first half and Lindsey Nelson and Gifford did the second half. This was almost certainly the first NFL prime time game ever televised in color. The Green Bay-St. Louis game from a year later on October 30 was likewise, also a prime time "coast to coast" telecast. Jack Drees again did play-by-play for the first half, while this time, Ray Scott did play-by-play for the second half, and Frank Gifford was the analyst for the full game. During subsequent negotiations on a television contract that would begin in 1970, Rozelle concentrated on signing a weekly Monday night deal with 
Title: NBC Sunday Night Football
Content:  in April. NBC's first telecast of the season was on September 6, 2018 featured the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles defeating the Atlanta Falcons. For the ninth season in a row, the NFL placed a game against a World Series game, with the (New Orleans Saints at Minnesota Vikings), going up against the fifth (and final) game of the Fall Classic, between the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Boston Red Sox. This was also the first season since 2015, that TNF was not on NBC, as it moved to fellow NFL broadcaster Fox for the next five years. Despite the loss of TNF, 
Title: NBC Sunday Night Football
Content:  hosted by the reigning Super Bowl champions and would instead featured the Chicago Bears who hosted the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field on September 5, with the game aired on NBC as part of a number of matchups throughout the league's 100th season celebrating critical games and rivalries through the league's history. The New England Patriots instead hosted the first SNF game of the season against Pittsburgh Steelers during Week 1 on NBC. For the tenth season in a row the NFL placed a game against a World Series game with the Green Bay Packers against the Kansas City Chiefs. going up against the fifth game of the Fall Classic between the 
Title: NFL on CBS
Content:  the Cleveland-Dallas game, Jack Buck and Pat Summerall were on the call for the first half, while Frank Glieber and Summerall announced the second half. Week 12's Green Bay-Minnesota game was the Sunday doubleheader telecast. Hal Scott called the first half, while Ray Scott called the second half. Tony Canadeo was the analyst for the full game and Jim Morse had CBS Control duties. For Week 12, St. Louis-Dallas was the main doubleheader game with Jack Buck and Eddie LeBaron working the first half and Jack Drees and LeBaron calling the second half. The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game was 
Title: September 2008 in sports
Content: American football: ; National Football League Week 1: ; Baltimore Ravens 17, Cincinnati Bengals 10 ; The Ravens total 229 rushing yards, including a 38-yard rushing touchdown by rookie quarterback Joe Flacco. ; New York Jets 20 Miami Dolphins 14 ; Brett Favre throws for two touchdowns in his first game for New York. ; New England Patriots 17, Kansas City Chiefs 10 ; Tom Brady leaves the game with a knee injury in the first quarter, and the Patriots barely hold on without him. The Patriots later confirm that Brady will be out for the season. ; Pittsburgh Steelers 38, Houston 
Title: ESPN on ABC
Content:  September 21st game between the New Orleans Saints and the Las Vegas Raiders. The game aired on ESPN, with ABC simulcasting the game, the network's first NFL regular season game in almost 15 years. This game was also the first NFL game to be played in the city of Las Vegas, and the first NFL game to be played in the state of Nevada. To celebrate the first exclusive regular season telecast of Major League Baseball on ABC since 1989, Matt Vasgersian, Alex Rodriguez, and Buster Olney wore special ABC Sports patches during Sunday Night Baseball on August 8, 2021 between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs. Special graphics were also used in conjunction with the standard ESPN MLB graphics.

Question: who plays the first nfl game of the season?
Answer: the New England Patriots.
the Kansas City Chiefs.