SoFi Stadium Inglewood, California September 8, 2022 Buffalo Bills 31 Los Angeles Rams 10
2023 season
Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City, Missouri September 7, 2023 Detroit Lions 21 Kansas City Chiefs 20
The National Football League Kickoff Game, along with related festivities, marks the official start of the National Football League (NFL) regular season. A single game is held, preceded by a concert and other ceremonies. This first game of the season is usually scheduled for the Thursday following Labor Day. An exception was made in 2012, when the game was moved to Wednesday to prevent conflicts with the acceptance speech of the Democratic National Convention.[1] Although the Kickoff Game is typically played on Thursday night, the league treats it separately from the Thursday Night Football games during the rest of the season.
The Kickoff Game was introduced in the 2002 season. From 2004 onward, the defending Super Bowl champion has hosted the Kickoff Game with a couple of exceptions—in 2013, the defending champion Baltimore Ravens opened on the road because of a conflict with a previously scheduled Orioles baseball game the same day,[2] and in 2019, the defending champion New England Patriots did not play at all in the Kickoff Game as the league instead scheduled the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears for that game to celebrate its 100th season of operation.[b][3] Since the NFL began the Kickoff Game, the home team has won all but six matchups (2002, 2012, 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2023).
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^Maske, Mike (March 22, 2013). "Ravens to play NFL's season-opening game on the road". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
^Capaccio, Sal (March 25, 2019). "Packers and Bears kick off NFL season on Thursday Night". WGR. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
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