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Defending champions the Kansas City Chiefs volition big the Detroit Lions successful the NFL play opener connected Thursday, 7 September.
The Patriots volition honour Tom Brady, who retired successful February, astatine that game.
The opening play closes with Aaron Rodgers' archetypal crippled for the New York Jets coming astatine location to Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills connected Monday 11th.
Rodgers, who was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player (MVP) 4 times earlier ending his 18-year relation with the Green Bay Packers, is acceptable to look the Chiefs and past season's MVP Patrick Mahomes successful week 4 - the Jets' archetypal Sunday nighttime crippled since 2011.
Kansas City past person a Super Bowl rematch astatine location to the Eagles successful week 11, and determination volition besides beryllium a repetition of the past 2 AFC Championship games successful week 17 arsenic the Chiefs big the Cincinnati Bengals.
The reigning champions volition besides beryllium playing successful Europe for the archetypal clip since 2015. The NFL confirmed the teams and dates for 2023's 5 planetary games earlier this week.
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Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft said earlier the afloat docket merchandise connected Thursday that helium had invited grounds seven-time Super Bowl victor Brady backmost to Foxborough for New England's opener.
The erstwhile quarterback, 45, won his archetypal six Super Bowl rings during his 20 years with the Patriots, earlier winning different successful the archetypal of 3 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Kraft called Brady "the top subordinate successful the past of the game", adding that "he's precise excited to travel backmost and spot our fans".
"It volition beryllium the opening of galore celebrations to honour Tom and accidental 'thank you' for what helium did for us," said Kraft.
There volition again beryllium 3 games played connected some the US vacation of Thanksgiving, 23 November, and connected Christmas Day, with the San Francisco 49ers playing connected both.
They are distant to the Seattle Seahawks and past astatine location to the Baltimore Ravens, portion the Chiefs big the Las Vegas Raiders connected Christmas Day.
Another absorbing match-up sees the 49ers sojourn the Eagles successful a repetition of past season's NFC Championship crippled successful week 13 portion the top 2 draught picks are acceptable to spell caput to caput successful week 8 arsenic Bryce Young's Carolina Panthers big CJ Stroud's Houston Texans.
The regular play ends connected 7 January 2024, followed by 3 rounds of play-off games to determine who volition play successful Super Bowl 58 successful Las Vegas connected 11 February.
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