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posted 04/04/01
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| Mike Sherman |
Back-to-back home appearances five days apart, one of them a "Monday Night Football" matchup against Denver, highlight the Green Bay Packers' 2001 preseason schedule, announced today.
GM/Head Coach Mike Sherman will put his team on formal Lambeau Field display for the first time in the new campaign Monday night, August 20, when the Green and Gold entertain the Broncos in the 41st annual Bishop's Charities Game.
Five nights later, Saturday, August 25, they will entertain the Miami Dolphins, defending champions of the AFC's Eastern Division, in the 52nd annual Midwest Shrine Game.
Both contests will have 7 p.m., CDT, kickoffs.
The Packers will open and close their preseason agenda on the road, taking on the Browns in Cleveland, where they will be making their first ever appearance in Cleveland Browns Stadium, Saturday night, August 11, and wrapping up their non-league exertions against the Raiders at Oakland, Friday night, August 31.
The Cleveland and Oakland games will have 7 p.m., CDT, and 8 p.m., CDT, kickoffs, respectively.
The Browns, Dolphins and Raiders contests will be televised over a state-wide preseason network, with WBAY-TV as the originating station, and including WISN-TV, Milwaukee; WISC-TV, Madison; WSAW-TV, Wausau; and WKBT-TV, La Crosse.
All four preseason games also will be broadcast over the Packer Radio Network, with WTMJ - which has been airing Packers games since 1929 - as the flagship station.
Denver will be making a rare preseason visit to Green Bay, the Broncos' most recent such appearance having come in 1980. The Dolphins, in contrast, will be making their second non-league visit to "Lambeau" in three years.
The Packers' preseason opener will find them playing a non-league game at Cleveland for the first time since 1969. In their finale, they will be invading Oakland's Network Associates Coliseum for the second time in five years.
Between them, the Packers' two charity contests have raised more than $5 million since their inception, including $2.575 million for the Bishop's Charities.
| Date | Opponent | Time | TV |
| Sat., Aug. 11 | at Cleveland Browns | 7 p.m. | State |
| Mon., Aug. 20 | Denver Broncos
(Bishop's Charities Game) | 7 p.m. | ABC |
| Sat., Aug. 25 | Miami Dolphins*
(Midwest Shrine Game) | 7 p.m. | State |
| Fri., Aug. 31 | at Oakland Raiders | 8 p.m. | State |
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| All times indicated are Wisconsin | |||
| * Gold Package | |||