The former teams of Hall of Fame inductees Jerome Bettis and Mick Tingelhoff will open the 2015 preseason.
For the vast majority of the NFL, the preseason is comprised of four preseason games. However, two teams end up playing a fifth preseason game a week before the rest of the league during the weekend the Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrines its latest class. For this year's Hall of Fame Game, the honor of kicking off the preseason goes to Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Hall of Fame Game participants are chosen based on the players, coaches and contributors chosen for enshrinement that year. In this case, the Steelers and Vikings were picked because of the selections of Jerome Bettis and Mick Tingelhoff respectively. Bettis played most of his career in Pittsburgh, helping secure a Lombardi Trophy during final season in 2005. Tingelhoff was chosen by the seniors committee. He played with Minnesota from 1962-78, playing in 240 games.
This year, the Hall of Fame Game will take place on August 9. The rest of the teams open their preseason begins the following week.
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