If your loyalties over whether you should watch the NFL opener or McCain's convention speech were torn, they will be no longer. Huffington Post reports:

The National Football League and NBC will likely move up the time of the league's September season opener so it won't conflict with presidential nominee John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.

Since 2002, the NFL has held its season opener on the first Thursday night after Labor Day. This year, the game runs smack into the final night of the convention, when McCain will officially accept the nomination and give a nationally televised speech from Minneapolis.

Once again. Much ado about nothing (though that's easier to say now.)