{"id":667682,"date":"2026-05-13T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/667682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:15:08","slug":"patriots-vs-seahawks-super-bowl-rematch-to-kick-off-2026-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/667682\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots vs. Seahawks Super Bowl rematch to kick off 2026 NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The New England Patriots had a front row seat to the Seattle Seahawks winning the Super Bowl in February. Now, they will have a front row seat to seeing them unveil their championship banner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The NFL\u2019s 2026 season opener will feature a Super Bowl LX rematch between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The game will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Seattle\u2019s Lumen Field with the kickoff set for 8:20 p.m. ET. League insider Jordan Schultz was first to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/schultz_report\/status\/2054682356607279460?s=46&amp;t=qP7mC8IbCPUtgT8MiHbUsg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;report&quot;}\" class=\"link \">report<\/a> the matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The season opener will take place roughly seven months removed from the Patriots and Seahawks capping off the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Their Super Bowl meeting was a defensive affair early on, but Seattle was still able to jump to a 19-0 lead by the early fourth quarter. While Drake Maye and company showed some sporadic signs of life afterwards, the NFC champions kept the upper hand to secure a 29-13 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The game in Seattle is one of nine road games for the Patriots in 2026. Another one of those was announced earlier on Wednesday, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patspulpit.com\/new-england-patriots-schedule\/128308\/patriots-rumor-germany-international-game-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:trip to Germany;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;trip to Germany&quot;}\" class=\"link \">trip to Germany<\/a> to take on the Detroit Lions in the NFL International Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The full 2026 regular season schedule will be released on Thursday, May 14, in an 8 p.m. ET primetime event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots had a front row seat to the Seattle Seahawks winning the Super Bowl in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[190534,49,3335,48,2221,246238,1718,514,187313,1739,82,19501],"class_list":["post-667682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-boye-mafe","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-drake-maye","tag-front-row-seat","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-santa-clara","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}