The primary full Sunday of the 2024 NFL season has been A LOT.
Already this morning we’ve seen Tyreek Hill detained by police forward of the Miami Dolphins’ season-opening sport in opposition to the Jacksonville Jaguars, Dak Prescott changing into the highest-paid participant in NFL historical past as he and the Dallas Cowboys lastly inked a long-awaited contract extension, Jim Harbaugh itemizing defensive sort out Scott Matlock as a two-way participant, full with a quantity change from 99 to 44, and Kendrick Lamar introduced because the halftime performer for this season’s Tremendous Bowl.
And the early slate of video games has not even kicked off.
Now now we have this: Ryan Fitzpatrick partnering with Shake Shack — and channeling his inside George Costanza — in a promotion for the quick meals franchise. Honest warning, this isn’t your typical “Sunday morning content material:”
Once more, now we have not even seen video games start but, and now we have this wild listing of incidents, promotions, and contract extensions. Actually, the sight of the previous quarterback, with some conveniently positioned packing containers of burgers, can be a troublesome factor to beat.
However now we have 13 video games coming our approach at this time, together with Tom Brady’s long-anticipated debut within the sales space for FOX Sports activities. So buckle up soccer followers, now we have a protracted day forward.
Updates:
Bryce Younger’s first go of the 2024 season went straight to the New Orleans Saints:
The primary “dynamic” second offered by the league’s new dynamic kickoff? It was a catastrophe for the Chicago Bears:
The Payments-Cardinals sport gave us the primary authorized play in NFL historical past with 12 males on the sector. Because of the brand new “dynamic kickoff” guidelines, when the wind repeatedly knocks the soccer off the tee on a kickoff, the kicking crew is allowed to convey a twelfth participant onto the sector as a holder, who then has to go away the sector instantly:
In the course of the Dallas-Cleveland sport the Cowboys offense tried sneaking onto the sector although the Browns had been going through second down: