{"id":595500,"date":"2026-09-10T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595500\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:22:10","slug":"super-bowl-rematch-kicks-off-nfls-return-to-tvnz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595500\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl rematch kicks off NFL&#8217;s return to TVNZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new American Football season kicks off from today on TVNZ, with three matches a week and culminating with the playoffs and Superbowl in early 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL (National Football League) will screen each week on both linear television and streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/competition\/nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TVNZ+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/competition\/nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The new season begins today at 12.15pm with a mouthwatering rematch of this year\u2019s Super Bowl finalists the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks defeated the Patriots 29-13 to claim Super Bowl LX in California in February.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s clash screens on TVNZ\u2019s DUKE channel and on TVNZ+.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Friday the San Francisco 49ers take on the LA Rams in the first NFL match to be played in Australia at Melbourne\u2019s MCG stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The regular NFL season stretches from September to January, with one match live on DUKE and three games on TVNZ+ each week.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Bowl grand final on February 15 next year will be broadcast live on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ+.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL competition is comprised of 32 teams, divided evenly into the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new American Football season kicks off from today on TVNZ, with three matches a week and culminating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[55223,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-595500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-american-football","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}