We’ve known who each team’s opponents will be for the 2024 NFL season and where the games will be played since the end of the 2023 regular season. On Wednesday, we found out when.
While there were some leaks and early announcements, each NFL team’s full 17-game schedule was released on Wednesday. Each team released its schedule on Twitter/X, usually creatively announcing each opponent.
So, which teams did it best?
5. Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons took it to the streets. Literally, with ATL Streets Vol. 24.
Some of the reveals were better than others, of course. The Saints becoming the Aint’s with Kirk Cousins’ famed, “You Like That” replacing “Who Dat” was strong. Even better was the downed Dallas Cowboys fan saying, “Go Lakers.”
There were also good homages to great moments of the team’s past, like Michael Vick’s overtime touchdown run against the Minnesota Vikings and Deion Sanders, now Coach Prime, being the best coach in the state of Colorado.
ATL Streets Vol. ’24@NFL Schedule Release @NFLNetwork | NFL+ pic.twitter.com/Co46Sbhec8
— Atlanta Falcons (@AtlantaFalcons) May 16, 2024
4. Los Angeles Chargers
The Chargers also went video game-themed, with The Sims depicting each opponent. While the Falcons one had the better individual reveals, the Chargers video was a steadier stream.
Ultimately, even though both teams had similar ideas, both get points for creativity.
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yes yes yesyes pic.twitter.com/MXzfAPyhe8— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) May 16, 2024
3. Cleveland Browns
The Browns took us to the bowling alley, with different opponents being revealed at the claw machine, bar, snack bar and of course, the lanes themselves. We have to give extra praise for The Big Stefanski poster for the team’s Week 10 bye week, as well.
To top it off, legendary professional bowler Pete Weber walked in, bowled a strike and screamed his famous line, “That’s right. Who do you think you are? I am!” before the entire schedule was revealed.
hate us or love us, you’ll watch
🎳 2024 schedule release. pic.twitter.com/TN3mCo5LGr
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) May 16, 2024
2. Las Vegas Raiders
In sports and show business, the best move is often to zag when everyone else zigs. That’s what the Raiders did with their schedule release.
While nearly every other team went with humor, artistic or a combination of the two, the Raiders went another way. The “No gimmicks” caption really says it all.
The video included homages to the team’s past and present. To top it all off, the 1974 poem, The Autumn Wind, written by Steve Sabol and famously narrated by John Facenda for NFL Films, was recited. In the end, new coach Antonio Pierce shared the message, “Raider Nation, stand up” just before the schedule was ultimately revealed.
No gimmicks. #RaiderNation pic.twitter.com/douAkUnZwH
— Las Vegas Raiders (@Raiders) May 16, 2024
1. Tennessee Titans
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The Titans had the best schedule reveal of 2023, with different people on Nashville’s Broadway trying to decipher each opponent by its logo. This year, the Titans brought back one of the stars of that video, Red Stallion Girl, to ask more people on Broadway to decipher the schedule.
It started off with a woman guessing the Bengals, even saying “I love Joe Burrow” as Tennessee’s Week 1 opponent. Of course, we then discovered that the Chicago Bears, or “Love Joe Burrow,” will be playing the Titans in Week 1.
Perhaps the best part of 2023’s video was that different fans, including Red Stallion Girl, thought that the Indianapolis Colts were in fact, the Cowboys. That happened again this year, but only with one of the matchups. For the first matchup against the Colts, the fan said, “Dallas Cowboys. That’s Dak Prescott.” The second matchup was labeled as Eli Manning. We did get a double guess this year, though, with fans not knowing who the Jacksonville Jaguars were in either matchup.
We asked people on Broadway to help us with our 2023 schedule release. 🤣
📺: 2023 Schedule Release on @nflnetwork pic.twitter.com/31LsUUDn3O
— Tennessee Titans (@Titans) May 12, 2023
For the second year in a row, the NFL Schedule Release belongs to the Tennessee Titans. Will some team step up and dethrone them in 2025 or will we see a repeat? We’ll find out in about a year.