{"id":512100,"date":"2026-05-15T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=512100"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:53:08","slug":"seahawks-face-patriots-in-week-1-of-the-2026-nfl-campaign","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/seahawks-face-patriots-in-week-1-of-the-2026-nfl-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks face Patriots in Week 1 of the 2026 NFL campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Seahawks will start the defense of the Super Bowl trophy vs. the organization they beat to win it.<\/p>\n<p>Over half a year after Seattle defeated New England to secure Super Bowl LX, the champs will host Drake Maye and the Patriots in the 2026 NFL campaign opener on September 9th.<\/p>\n<p>The game was among many huge reveals today as NFL franchises shared their schedules after the NFL\u2019s full announcement of its 272-match slate.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time the organizations in the previous campaign\u2019s Super Bowl will face each other in Week 1 of the next campaign, and the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time they will do it in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match of the season. The only other time was 10 years ago, when the Broncos defeated the Panthers after beating them in the Super Bowl a few months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks will try to do exactly that against the Pats, and the odds are on their side as the defending champions are 16-5 on the opener in the past over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be held on the 1st match in Melbourne, Australia, during the Wednesday night opener.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KICKOFF 2026: A Super Bowl LX rematch to start off the season \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b3DMYRn7Cw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/b3DMYRn7Cw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/2055076194706690262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Seahawks will start the defense of the Super Bowl trophy vs. the organization they beat to win it. Over half a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":512101,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Seattle and New England will kick off the new NFL season.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512102,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512100\/revisions\/512102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512100"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=512100"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=512100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}