{"id":227107,"date":"2026-05-11T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:37:08","slug":"new-york-giants-will-open-2026-season-at-home-vs-cowboys-in-primetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227107\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants will open 2026 season at home vs. Cowboys in primetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated May 11, 2026, 7:58 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Giants<\/a> will kick off the 2026 NFL regular season at home against their NFC East rivals, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" data-autotag=\"7af2161d-a8dd-41a5-87e2-32eb5b028473\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, in primetime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The NFL announced Monday that the matchup will headline the first Sunday Night Football game of the year on NBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This marks the 12th time the two franchises have opened the season against each other\u2014one of the most frequent Week 1 pairings in NFL history. The Cowboys lead the all-time series 78-48-2 and have won 10 of the previous 11 season-opening meetings, with the Giants\u2019 lone victory coming in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The rivalry, which dates to 1960, consistently delivers massive TV audiences and early-season drama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A primetime opener at MetLife Stadium will set an electric tone for both clubs as they chase playoff contention in a loaded conference.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Fans now await the rest of the slate.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778503028_143_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated May 11, 2026, 7:58 a.m. ET The New York Giants will kick off the 2026 NFL regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[679,9,11,10,87161,1941,1942,948,42089,950,930,1945,932,947,1328,949,682],"class_list":["post-227107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-accessfree","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sourcegiants-wire","tag-sstssportsnflgiants","tag-sstsngiants","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagdallas-cowboys","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnew-york-giants","tag-tagnfc-east","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}