The reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles will host the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday evening, Sept. 4 within the NFL’s 2025 regular-season opener.
The sport, which will likely be televised on NBC, marks the primary Week 1 assembly between the NFC East rivals since 2000, when the Andy Reid-coached Eagles rolled to a 41-14 victory at Texas Stadium.
The sport will mark the regular-season debut for Brian Schottenheimer because the Cowboys’ head coach.
Not one of the 19 gamers drafted by both the Eagles or Cowboys final month was alive when that earlier Week 1 matchup was performed on Sept. 3, 2000, in accordance with ESPN Analysis.
The Eagles gained each video games towards the Cowboys final season.
The NFL has opened the common season with a Thursday evening sport since 2002, largely with the reigning Tremendous Bowl champion as the house group, with a couple of exceptions. This will likely be solely the fourth time an intra-division sport was chosen.
The total NFL schedule will likely be introduced Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET. A schedule launch particular will air Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
In different schedule information:
• Peacock will solely stream a Saturday evening sport on Dec. 27 in Week 17, the league introduced Monday. The groups concerned will likely be introduced at a later date as a part of the NFL’s late-season versatile scheduling.
This would be the fourth sport proven solely on Peacock, with broadcasts additionally out there on NBC stations within the markets of the competing groups. Peacock had the Eagles’ opener final season towards the Inexperienced Bay Packers in Brazil on a Friday evening in addition to an AFC wild-card sport between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the 2023 playoffs and a Week 16 sport between the Buffalo Payments and Los Angeles Chargers in 2023.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
