KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson on the NFL’s opening night.
And the raising of a Super Bowl banner, to boot.
The Chiefs will begin their Super Bowl defense on Thursday Night Football on Sept. 10, with national TV cameras converging inside Arrowhead Stadium for the stand-alone NFL opener against the Texans.
That’s the plan for now.
As the coronavirus pandemic has wiped out sporting events across the world, the NFL released every team’s 2020 schedule Thursday — or at least what it hopes will be their 2020 schedules.
“We have and will continue to prepare for the season. We’ve been doing it carefully; we’ll continue to do it diligently working with outside experts making sure that we’re ready to go and ready to deal with whatever contingency comes our way,” Chiefs president Mark Donovan said on the schedule-release show on the team’s website. “ … The key for us is that it’s safe for our players, for our coaches, for our fans, for our staff, for everybody involved and for our fans, obviously. So, that’s where we’re working towards.”