2013 NFL season The 2013 NFL season , the 94th regular season of the National Football League , is tentatively set to begin Thursday , September 5 , 2013 , with the defending Super Bowl XLVII champions the Baltimore Ravens hosting the annual Kickoff game ; and will end with Super Bowl XLVIII , the league ' s championship game , on Sunday , February 2 , 2014 , at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford , New Jersey . Schedule . The 2013 NFL Draft will be held from April 25 – 27 , 2013 , at New York City ' s Radio City Music Hall . Under the NFL ' s scheduling formula , the intraconference and interconference matchups will be : What is known of the 2013 schedule is as follows : The opponents for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game will be announced sometime in the spring , while the entire regular season schedule will be announced in April . Also expected to be decided in April is the future of the Pro Bowl , which received a one - year reprieve for the 2013 contest but remains in jeopardy of being canceled . Stadiums . This will be the final season in which the San Francisco 49ers will play their home games at Candlestick Park , as the team will move into their new stadium in Santa Clara in 2014 . With the departure of the 49ers , Candlestick Park will be left without any permanent tenants . On February 3 , 2013 , plans to demolish Candlestick Park were announced and might take place after the final 2013 49ers game . This will be the final season in which the Minnesota Vikings will play their home games at the Hubert H . Humphrey Metrodome , as the team will move temporarily to TCF Bank Stadium ( home of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers ) while their new stadium is built at the same site as the Metrodome . The Vikings will play the 2014 and 2015 seasons at TCF Bank Stadium and open their new stadium for the 2016 season . The Oakland Raiders ' lease on O . co Coliseum expires after the 2013 season . The Raiders are the only NFL team that still shares its home stadium with a MLB team . The Raiders have been linked to multiple new stadium proposals , including those that involve the franchise returning to the Los Angeles Area . Media . This will be the eighth and final year of the current TV contracts with CBS , Fox , NBC and ESPN , before the new nine - year contracts begin in 2014 . CBS will continue to carry the AFC package , Fox will continue to carry the NFC package , NBC will continue to carry Sunday Night Football , kickoff game and the prime - time Thanksgiving game and ESPN will continue to air 17 Monday Night games in 16 weeks from September 9 through December 23 . Uniforms . The Jacksonville Jaguars updated their logo , and the team indicated that changes could also be coming to their uniforms . The Miami Dolphins will reportedly update their logo . It is unknown if the team will also update their uniforms . The Minnesota Vikings tweaked their " Norseman " team logo . Coaching changes . Preseason . By 1 : 30 p . m . EST on December 31 , 2012 ( the day after the conclusion of the regular season ) , seven head coaches and five general managers were fired , setting an NFL record for the most firings in one day . No coaches were fired during the season , but Carolina Panthers General Manager Marty Hurney was dismissed in October .