{"id":628380,"date":"2026-09-18T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628380\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:04:10","slug":"nfl-josh-allen-leads-buffalo-bills-to-victory-in-first-game-at-highmark-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628380\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Josh Allen leads Buffalo Bills to victory in first game at Highmark Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Allen barged into the endzone and found Joshua Palmer for a 43-yard touchdown, before Dawson Knox scored early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lions replied with Jared Goff finding Jahmyr Gibbs, who became the NFL&#8217;s highest-paid running back in the off-season, for an 11-yard touchdown catch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Dalton Kincaid stretched Buffalo&#8217;s lead and the Bills remained comfortable throughout the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detroit, who beat the New Orleans Saints in overtime last week, cut the deficit with two touchdowns by Amon-Ra St Brown and another from Sam LaPorta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Allen, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c2032ew3830o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL&#8217;s Most Valuable Player for the 2024 season,<\/a> and James Cook scored for the Bills to ensure the Lions only got within 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before the game in Buffalo, which is on the US border with Canada, both the American and Canadian national anthems were played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latter was sung by Canadian band Barenaked Ladies as the Bills chose to honour their Canadian fans amid rising tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen barged into the endzone and found Joshua Palmer for a 43-yard touchdown, before Dawson Knox scored early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-628380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}