Seahawks open the 2026 season on Wednesday

[Mistashoesta]

*Updated title due to my reading comprehension issues*

 

[Streamhawk]

Re-read that. The home opener is Wednesday in Seattle, and the Auzzie game is Thursday. They just reversed each game's date.

 

[AROS]

 

[GemCity]

Dickson would’ve been happy!

 

[Mistashoesta]

Re-read that. The home opener is Wednesday in Seattle, and the Auzzie game is Thursday. They just reversed each game's date.

Ah. My bad. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[sutz]

Ah. My bad. Thanks for the clarification.

You can edit that you know.

 

[Mistashoesta]

You can edit that you know.

I did. Thx.

 

[kidhawk]

https://amp.thenewstribune.com/sports/nfl/seattle-seahawks/article315089909.html

So as of now, on Sept 9, we have the Seahawks at Lumen field, Mariners across the street and the Sounders also at Lumen.

So basically the NFL is saying they don’t really care about the other leagues and they just have to reschedule around the NFL. I could understand if there were some type of cancellation or playoffs skewing the schedule but it seems crazy to tell two major leagues to change their schedule so the NFL can just do whatever they want.

 

[Streamhawk]

Ah. My bad. Thanks for the clarification.

No worries. At least we get the home opener first game. And don’t have to fly across the world.

 

[James in PA]

Mini bye after the first game. Good way to ease into the season.

 

[glenwo2]

Sucks to be the Whiners and Rams.

But we're the Seahawks and we don't Suck at all.

We're the Champs, baybeee!!!

And we get basically a very early mini-bye after Wednesday.

We'll win the game against whomever it is and then I'm sure the coaching staff will look at what worked, what didn't work, and so forth.

 

[JustTheTip]

https://amp.thenewstribune.com/sports/nfl/seattle-seahawks/article315089909.html

So as of now, on Sept 9, we have the Seahawks at Lumen field, Mariners across the street and the Sounders also at Lumen.

So basically the NFL is saying they don’t really care about the other leagues and they just have to reschedule around the NFL. I could understand if there were some type of cancellation or playoffs skewing the schedule but it seems crazy to tell two major leagues to change their schedule so the NFL can just do whatever they want.

Probably built onto the sounders lease agreement that the Seahawks can boot any scheduled dates at lumen they have.

 

[kidhawk]

Probably built onto the sounders lease agreement that the Seahawks can boot any scheduled dates at lumen they have.

That wouldn’t surprise me in the least. I just think it’s audacious of the NFL to just basically reschedule two major league franchises so they can get what they want outside of a “need” basis.

 

[onanygivensunday]

I'll be VERY surprised if the Hawks are scheduled for their season-opening home game on Wed., Sept 9th... in direct conflict with the M's night game with Texas. I just don't see that happening.

However, I COULD see them being scheduled to host (the Bears??) on either Sunday night, Sept. 13th or Monday night, Sept. 14th... when the M's are on the road in CA.

 

[JustTheTip]

That wouldn’t surprise me in the least. I just think it’s audacious of the NFL to just basically reschedule two major league franchises so they can get what they want outside of a “need” basis.

It has been clearly obvious for at least 3 decades that the NFL has zero concern for anything outside of their bottom line.

 

[TheLegendOfBoom]

Essentially, a league opener, Wednesday, first game is almost like a “short bye” before game 2.

I just hope Seattle gets a middle ish of the season bye.

 

[kidhawk]

Essentially, a league opener, Wednesday, first game is almost like a “short bye” before game 2.

I just hope Seattle gets a middle ish of the season bye.

I do think late to mid season byes are best to plan for but sometimes there are times early in the year where they would be advantageous as well

 

[sutz]

I do think late to mid season byes are best to plan for but sometimes there are times early in the year where they would be advantageous as well

Any time you get a few more days for rest and prep it's a good thing.

But I still hate Thursday night games.

 

[SNDavidson]

I'm just putting this out there now so that someone runs with it, someone needs to show up as the hump-day camel

 

[TheLegendOfBoom]

I do think late to mid season byes are best to plan for but sometimes there are times early in the year where they would be advantageous as well

I’ll be fine with a week 12/13/ bye. I feel that’s right where you will probably need one.