{"id":642113,"date":"2026-05-14T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642113\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:14:09","slug":"report-seahawks-will-host-patriots-to-start-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642113\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Seahawks will host Patriots to start the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen weeks from tonight, the 2026 NFL season will begin. It will reportedly begin the same way the 2025 NFL season ended.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Schultz reports that the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/2054682356607279460?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Seahawks will host the Patriots<\/a> on Wednesday, September 9. It will be the first game of the next regular season.<\/p>\n<p>If the report is accurate, it\u2019ll be the first Week 1 Super Bowl rematch in a decade. The 2016 season began with an immediate rematch of Super Bowl 50, which the Broncos won over the Panthers. Denver won the second game, 21-20, thanks to a missed 50-yard field goal from Carolina kicker Graham Gano in the final 10 seconds of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle won Super Bowl LX. The game didn\u2019t seem nearly as close as the 29-13 final score would suggest. It felt, frankly, like a 1970s-style Super Bowl suffocation; if they had played 10 times, the Patriots likely wouldn\u2019t have won once.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Patriots will reportedly get an immediate chance to do it again. And not at a neutral site, but in Seattle. On the night the Seahawks hang a banner, a ritual the Patriots know very well.<\/p>\n<p>Given that five of Seattle\u2019s nine home opponents for 2026 have already been committed elsewhere for Week 1 (49ers, Rams, Giants, Cowboys, Chiefs), only four options remain for Week 1: the Cardinals, Chargers, Bears, and Patriots. The official announcement of the opening game will come by 8:00 p.m. ET on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen weeks from tonight, the 2026 NFL season will begin. It will reportedly begin the same way the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-642113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}