How do they determine the first two teams to play in the nfl preseason game?

Question

just wondering i guess...

Answer 1

The 'Skins played this year because of Art Monk and Darrel Green, two redskin greats who were inducted this year into the Hall of Fame.  I seem to remember the Colts playing last year also, I think the schedualers just choose who they want.

Answer 2

The National Football League exhibition season refers to the NFL's pre-season games before the NFL regular season starts. Each NFL team plays four exhibition games. The start of the exhibition season is intrinsically tied to the last week of Training camp.

Exhibition Season

The summer sees most NFL teams playing four exhibition games (referred to by the NFL as "preseason games;" the league discourages the use of the term "exhibition game") from early August through early September. The Pro Football Hall of Fame Game does not count toward the normal allotment of four games, so the two teams playing in that contest (one AFC and one NFC) each end up playing five exhibition games.

For several years through 1977, the NFL season consisted of 14 regular season games and six exhibition games. Starting 1978, the regular season was expanded to 16 games, and the exhibition season was cut from six to four games.

The games are useful for new players that are not used to playing in front of very large crowds. Management often uses the games to evaluate newly signed players. Veteran players will generally play only for about a quarter of each game so they can avoid injury.

Still, pro football is popular enough that many fans are still willing to pay full price for exhibition games so that they may guarantee themselves a seat during the season. This is evidenced by the fact that many teams are sold out on a season ticket basis and have large waiting lists where people are willing to pay a one-time or annual fee for the privilege of remaining on the waiting list. There are some teams that offer promotions and discounts to fill the stands for preseason games; an example of this is the Buffalo Bills' annual "Kids Day" promotion, where tickets, already the lowest priced in the league, are slashed to bargain-basement prices (around $10) for children under 12.

Prior to the commencement of the International Series, the NFL had another "featured" preseason game by the name of the American Bowl. This matchup, which was a "fifth" preseason game for the two teams involved and was (often) played on the same weekend as the Hall of Fame Game, was played outside the United States, usually in Mexico or Japan; in the latter case, it often resulted in games that started at 5:00 A.M. U.S. Eastern time. The American Bowl was held from 1986 to 2005; similar international matches had occurred regularly since 1969.

For a brief time in the late 1990s and early 2000s, some preseason teams played their own games (usually four to six other teams took part) over Hall of Fame weekend and took a bye week somewhere else in the preseason. This was abandoned after the Houston Texans were added to the league in 2002.

The games do not count toward any statistics, streaks, season standings or records whatsoever. For instance, the two losses incurred by the 2007 New England Patriots during the preseason will not count against them, and if they had won Super Bowl XLII, it would still have been considered to be a perfect season despite these losses.

Answer 3

A raffle.