Get Ready for Some Thursday Night Football

The Takeaway

Football fans have waited all year for tonight. The defending champions, the Green Bay Packers will face off against the New Orleans Saints, the Super Bowl champions of 2009.  For serious football fanatics, that means fantasy football is starting up too, and the draft finished up last night. Nando Di Fino, sports writer for The Wall Street Journal, talks about both types of football –  real and fantasy.

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