{"id":817677,"date":"2026-03-17T19:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/817677\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:28:22","slug":"seahawks-dealt-strange-date-for-2026-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/817677\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks Dealt Strange Date For 2026 Season-Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The date for the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks&#8217; 2026 season opener has been set. And it&#8217;s a weird one.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle will <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JBFlint\/status\/2033931277393662191\" rel=\"nofollow\">open the season on Wednesday, Sept. 2<\/a>, instead of on Thursday, per The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Joe Flint. The NFL&#8217;s first-ever game in Melbourne, Australia, between the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams will instead be played that Thursday, Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The strange scheduling is to uphold the NFL tradition that the previous year&#8217;s Super Bowl champion will always play the very first game of the new season, and at home. <\/p>\n<p>Since the NFL couldn&#8217;t do a Friday game on opening week, per Flint, that moved the Seahawks&#8217; season opener all the way up to Wednesday to make space for the Melbourne game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/seahawks\/onsi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy free coverage of the Super Bowl champions from Seattle Seahawks On SI<\/a>\u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/seahawks\/newsletter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up For the Seahawks Daily Digest &#8211; OnSI\u2019s Free Seattle Seahawks Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The date for the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks&#8217; 2026 season opener has been set. And it&#8217;s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-817677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116246171274459177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817677","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=817677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}