when does this year's nfl season start
September 7, 2017
title: 2018 NFL season text: 2018 NFL season The 2018 NFL season is the 99th season of the National Football League (NFL). The season began on September 6, 2018, with the NFL Kickoff Game with the defending Super Bowl LII champion Philadelphia Eagles defeating the Atlanta Falcons 18–12. The season will conclude with Super Bowl LIII, the league's championship game, on February 3, 2019, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2018 NFL League year and trading period began on March 14. On March 9, clubs were allowed to exercise options for 2018 on players who have option clauses in their contracts, submit qualifying offers title: 2019 NFL season text: 2019 NFL season The 2019 NFL season will be the 100th season of the National Football League. (NFL) The season will tentatively begin on September 5, 2019 in the home team of the Super Bowl LIII champion. The season will conclude with Super Bowl LIV, the league's championship game, tentatively scheduled for February 2, 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. The 2019 NFL Draft will be held from April 25–27 in Nashville, Tennessee. Training Camps for the 2019 season will be held in late July through August. Teams will start training camp no earlier than 15 days before title: 2018 NFL season text: 5 to 15 minutes earlier to facilitate local newscasts and "SportsCenter" to start earlier and cause less disruption to late night television schedules in the Eastern and Central time zones. Thursday and Sunday Night games now kick off at 8:20 p.m. ET, while Monday Night games now kick off at 8:15 p.m. ET. After two years of decline, television viewership for the NFL slightly rebounded in 2018, with ratings up 3% as a whole through the first ten weeks of the season, despite a major decline (16%) in other programming on the same networks. 2018 NFL season The 2018 NFL title: 2017 NFL season text: 2017 NFL season The 2017 NFL season was the 98th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL). The season began on September 7, 2017, with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the defending Super Bowl LI champion New England Patriots 42–27 in the NFL Kickoff Game. The season concluded with Super Bowl LII, where the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles faced the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots. The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots 41–33 to win their first title in franchise history. It was also a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIX, title: 2018 NFL season text: for 2018 will be as follows: The entire season schedule was released on April 19, 2018. Highlights of the 2018 season include: When the entire season schedule was released on April 19, 2018, the league announced flexible scheduling for Saturday games in weeks 15 and 16. The final times of these games were announced on October 24, 2018: Clinched playoff berth. The 2018 playoffs will begin on the weekend of January 5–6, 2019, with the Wild Card Playoff round. The four winners of these playoff games will visit the top two seeds in each conference in the Divisional round games