Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers to play in NFL's 2020 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game
We now know the matchup for the NFL's return in 2020.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced Tuesday that the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys will headline the 2020 Hall of Fame Game, scheduled for Thursday, August 6. It will be held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio.
This marks the seventh appearance by each team in the Hall of Fame Game, which is played before the enshrinement of that year’s Pro Football Hall of Fame class and signals the start of the preseason. Both the Cowboys and Steelers are tied at 3-3 in the Hall of Fame Game series.
Both the Steelers and Cowboys will end up with an extra preseason game.
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Former Steelers coach Bill Cowher and former Steelers safety Troy Polamalu will join former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson as inductees from that weekend who will be honored on the field before and during the Hall of Fame Game.
As part of the Centennial Class, senior candidates Cliff Harris (Cowboys) and Donnie Shell (Steelers) will be enshrined on September 18, along with the other members of the expanded class.
The two teams are also scheduled to play each other in the regular season. As Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger continues to rehabilitate an injured right throwing elbow, the Hall of Fame Game could be his return to the field after he missed all but two games in 2019.
The game will also mark coach Mike McCarthy's first as the head coach of the Cowboys.