{"id":41033,"date":"2025-05-11T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T06:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/41033\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T06:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T06:50:13","slug":"chiefs-reportedly-picked-for-international-game-as-nfl-leans-on-its-bell-cow-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/41033\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs reportedly picked for international game as NFL leans on its bell cow again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full NFL schedule will be released Wednesday night, but if the past is any indication, the league will reveal some matchups earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>We already know which teams have given up a home game to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/international\/international-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:an international contest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">an international contest<\/a>. That includes the Los Angeles Chargers, who will play the first Friday of the season in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s scheduled for Sept. 6, one day after the NFL Kickoff Game, and the Athletic reported in early April the Chargers wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article303316826.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:face the Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">face the Chiefs<\/a> in that South American city.<\/p>\n<p>The Chargers\u2019 wish apparently has been granted, according to Front Office Sports.<\/p>\n<p>This is from Front Office Sports\u2019 Eric Fisher: \u201cThe league is closing in on an agreement to have t<a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/nfl-nears-deal-for-youtube-game-that-could-break-streaming-records\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he Google-owned YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he Google-owned YouTube<\/a>, distributors of the residential version of NFL Sunday Ticket, carry the Sept. 5 game in Brazil involving the Chargers as the home team. The deal, according to sources, will see the opening-week game from S\u00e3o Paulo include the Chiefs, the NFL\u2019s top viewership draw, as the visiting team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game would be available on YouTube for free, according to Fisher. Having the Chiefs as a calling card fits with what the NFL has done in the past when expanding its media rights.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mike North, the NFL\u2019s VP of broadcast planning and scheduling, admitted on the It\u2019s Always Gameday in Buffalo podcast, that the league <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kAoZVqXXZPU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:leans heavily on the Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">leans heavily on the Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think back a couple of years ago, we played our first wild card game on a streaming service on Peacock,\u201d North said. \u201cAnd everybody\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, this cannot fail.\u2019 Well, you want to make wild card on Peacock a thing, you put a Kansas City Chiefs game there. A couple of years ago, it was Black Friday. You want to make Black Friday a thing, you put a Kansas City Chiefs game there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year we had Netflix. First time ever broadcasting an NFL game on Christmas. You want to make Wednesday Netflix Christmas NFL a thing, you put a Kansas City Chiefs game there. We do need to build other muscles. We do need to be able to go to a deeper well than just Kansas City and Dallas every year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the league apparently is going to the well again with the Chiefs to give YouTube, which has carried NFL Sunday Ticket since 2023, a boost.<\/p>\n<p>And that means the Chiefs are likely to open the season with a road game &#8230; in South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full NFL schedule will be released Wednesday night, but if the past is any indication, the league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,229,14653,7,14654,118,110,2438,2437,262,6,3296],"class_list":{"0":"post-41033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-eric-fisher","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-front-office-sports","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-kansascity","16":"tag-kansascitychiefs","17":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-sunday-ticket"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114487874230887198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}