By Ben Nagle and Jake Fenner
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The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs will open the 2024 NFL season with a house sport towards the Baltimore Ravens, the NFL has introduced.
The Super Bowl champions will kick off the brand new marketing campaign at Arrowhead on September 5 in a mouthwatering Thursday Evening Soccer matchup towards their AFC rivals.
The sport will air on NBC and Peacock, and can see Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Co come up towards Lamar Jackson.
It is a rematch of the AFC Championship sport from the 2024 season that noticed Kansas Metropolis beat Baltimore to succeed in Tremendous Bowl LVIII.
That was a decent contest – with the Chiefs solely simply managing to beat the Ravens by a 17-10 scoreline.
Travis Kelce and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs know who they’re enjoying of their first sport
The Chiefs will tackle the Baltimore Ravens in an AFC Championship sport rematch
That sport noticed the Chiefs rating two touchdowns – one via the air to Kelce and one on the bottom by way of Isiah Pacheco.
Kelce caught eleven passes for 116 yards and a landing in that contest and was joined afterwards on the sphere within the celebrations by his girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes accomplished 30 of 39 passes in that sport for 241 yards and a landing as effectively.
As for the opposition, the Ravens had been led on offense by Jackson, who accomplished 20 of 37 passes for 272 yards, a landing, and an interception.
Extensive receiver Zay Flowers led the way in which within the catching division for Baltimore with 5 catches for 115 yards and a landing that tied the sport within the first quarter.
However the Ravens would surrender ten factors and solely responded with a fourth quarter area purpose from Justin Tucker.
Consequently, the Chiefs moved on to Tremendous Bowl LVIII – the place they took on, and beat, the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in extra time.
Over the previous 4 seasons, the NFL Kickoff sport has been break up pretty evenly between the reigning Tremendous Bowl winners and whoever they’re dealing with.
Kelce caught the Chiefs’ solely passing landing of the sport within the first quarter
Patrick Mahomes accomplished 77 p.c of his passes for 241 yards within the victory for KC
And naturally, Kelce was joined on the sphere within the celebrations by girlfriend Taylor Swift
However the previous two seasons, the reigning champions have misplaced their opening matchups.
Final season, the Chiefs misplaced to the Detroit Lions 21-20 at dwelling at Arrowhead Stadium after Kansas Metropolis’s last-ditch effort to attain ended up in an incomplete 4th and 25 go from Mahomes.
The season prior, the Buffalo Payments had been capable of silence the Tremendous Bowl LVI champion Los Angeles Rams at their dwelling by a 31-10 scoreline.
Tremendous Bowl champions historically open the season with the NFL kickoff sport – with the current exception of the Chicago Bears and Inexperienced Bay Packers opening the 2019 season whereas the then-reigning Tremendous Bowl champion New England Patriots had been compelled to play the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 1’s version of Sunday Evening Soccer.
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