Denver Broncos: 2012 Schedule Features 5 Prime-Time Games

The 2012 NFL schedules were released on Tuesday at 7 p.m. (ET).

Peyton Manning and the Broncos will be facing Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Houston, New England, New Orleans and Cincinnati, all playoff teams in 2011.

Five of their games are nationally televised, including the first Sunday night game of the NFL 2012 season against the Pittsburgh Steelers on NBC. They have two games televised on ESPN, one on Sept. 17th at Atlanta and the other on Oct. 15th at San Diego. Their Oct. 28th against New Orleans will be on NBC and their Dec. 6th game at Oakland will be on the NFL network.

Denver Broncos 2012 Schedule

Week	Date	Game	Time (ET)	Network
1	Sept 9	vs. Pittsburgh	8:20p	NBC
2	Sept 17	@ Atlanta	8:30p	ESPN
3	Sept 23	vs. Houston	4:15p	CBS
4	Sept 30	vs. Oakland	4:05p	CBS
5	Oct 7	@ New England	4:15p	CBS
6	Oct 15	@ San Diego	8:30p	ESPN
7	Bye
8	Oct 28	vs. New Orleans	8:20p	NBC
9	Nov 4	@ Cincinnati	1:00p	CBS
10	Nov 11	@ Carolina	1:00p	CBS
11	Nov 18	vs. San Diego	4:15p	CBS
12	Nov 25	@ Kansas City	1:00p	CBS
13	Dec 2	vs. Tampa Bay	4:05p	FOX
14	Dec 6	@ Oakland	8:20p	NFL
15	Dec 16	@ Baltimore	1:00p	CBS
16	Dec 23	vs. Cleveland	4:05p	CBS
17	Dec 30	vs. Kansas City	4:15p	CBS

Denver will need to have things together in a hurry as they play three 2011 playoff teams in their first three games. Peyton Manning will definitely be tested as they arguably have the toughest schedule in the 2012 season.

Along with their five nationally televised games, their game at New England on Oct. 7th will be highlighted since we'll get to see another showdown between Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.