Chris Pika takes a look inside the game notes for tonight’s Thanksgiving feast in Baltimore.

Week 1 of the 2011 NFL schedule features a pair of teams that have waged one of the fiercest rivalries in the NFL over the past decade, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens. Sunday’s 1 pm (CBS) game in M&T Bank Stadium may prove to be everything the NFL Kickoff opener was not Thursday [...]

It only took 132 days to reach the day that everyone affiliated with the NFL was hoping for, the resumption of football after a prolonged lockout that featured lawyers, accountants and negotiators instead of players, coaches and general managers. Sometime later today, an announcement (should be a simultaneous Tweet by the NFL and NFLPA) announcing [...]

ATLANTA—As word leaked out that the NFL owners had voted 31-0 on their proposal for a settlement of legal issues and the terms of a new CBA last night, rumors that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith had been on the phone during a prolonged (and unplanned) dinner break by the [...]