GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers will open the 2020 NFL season on the road against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, and they’ll have to wait to show that they’ve closed the gap with the San Francisco 49ers until Nov. 5.
Fans, meanwhile, will have to wait until Oct. 18 for future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady to face off for just the third time in their careers.
All of this, of course, assumes the NFL schedule, which was released by the league Thursday evening, goes off as planned in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed thousands of Americans and forced the cancellation or postponement of virtually all events that are held before large crowds.