Five national prime-time television match-ups, including a Nov. 2 meeting with nemesis New England in Lucas Oil Stadium, headline the Indianapolis Colts’ 2008 schedule.The Colts open the regular season Sept. 7 against the Chicago Bears in Lucas Oil Stadium. It’s a rematch of Super Bowl XLI, won by the Colts, and will be telecast nationally by NBC (8:15 p.m.).
The other prime-time games are Monday, Oct. 27 at Tennessee (ESPN, 8:30 p.m.), Sunday, Nov. 23 at San Diego (NBC, 8:15 p.m.) and Thursday, Dec. 18 at Jacksonville (NFL Network, 8:15 p.m.).
The remainder of the schedule: Sept. 14 at Minnesota (1 p.m.), Sept. 21 versus Jacksonville (4:15 p.m.), Oct. 5 at Houston (1 p.m.), Oct. 12 versus Baltimore (1 p.m.), Oct. 19 at Green Bay (4:15 p.m.), Nov. 9 at Pittsburgh (4:15 p.m.), Nov. 16 versus Houston (1 p.m.), Nov. 30 at Cleveland (1 p.m.), Dec. 7 versus Cincinnati (1 p.m.), Dec. 14 versus Detroit (1 p.m.) and Dec. 28 versus Tennessee (1 p.m.)