new england patriots played the first game of the nfl regular season.
new england patriots played the first game of the nfl regular season.
who plays the first game of the nfl regular season?
new england patriots
in 1987, through a short stint with nbc sports, gayle sierens became the first woman to do play-by-play for an nfl regular season football game when she called the december 27 game between the seattle seahawks and the kansas city chiefs. she was originally to be a regular play-by-play announcer for the season, but a contract dispute with wfla prevented her from continuing in that role beyond her lone game. in may 2017, beth mowins was reported by "sports illustrated"s richard deitsch to be the chosen play-by-play announcer on espn's "monday night football" opening week late broadcast between the los angeles chargers and denver broncos. she did that announcing job in september of that year, and thus became the first woman to call a nationally televised nfl game; in contrast to sierens, mowins has been a semi-regular broadcaster for the nfl since then. in 2018 hannah storm and andrea kremer became the first all-female broadcast team to call an nfl game, which they did for an amazon prime stream of "thursday night football".
history of the national football league
the first regular season nfl game played outside the united states was held on october 2, 2005 at estadio azteca in mexico city before an nfl regular-season record of 103,467 fans. the arizona cardinals defeated the san francisco 49ers, 31-14. the new york giants and miami dolphins played a regular season game at wembley stadium in london on october 28, 2007 (with the giants winning 13-10), the first ever nfl regular season game to be played outside of north america; similarly, the san diego chargers and new orleans saints followed suit in october 2008. these games are termed the nfl international series. in addition to these games, the buffalo bills began the bills toronto series, a number of pre- and annual regular season games in toronto; the miami dolphins beat the bills 16-3 in the first such game, on december 7, 2008. the series ran from 2008 to 2013.
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