Pre-season Prime Time

Well look at this.  The Packers pre-season opener will be a prime-time affair as well.

Aaron Rodgers’ preseason debut as the Green Bay Packers’ starting quarterback will be nationally televised, too.

The Cincinnati Bengals will visit Lambeau Field for the Bishop’s Charities Game on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” at 7 p.m. Aug. 11, the league announced today.

The Packers will travel to San Francisco and Denver in Weeks 2 and 3 of the preseason, respectively, and host Tennessee in the preseason finale — the Midwest Shrine Game, a gold-package game — Aug. 28 or 29. Dates for those games, which will be shown on statewide television (including WFRV-TV, Ch. 5 in Green Bay) have not been determined.

The Packers’ regular-season opener will be on ESPN on Sept. 8, against the Minnesota Vikings. The rest of the regular-season schedule will be released later this month.

That makes for two prime-time games on the national stage so far for the Packers in the post-Favre era.