The Seahawks are going to stand on their own field and watch a championship banner rise into the rafters, and the team that gave it to them will be standing on the opposite sideline watching it happen. That is Week 1. That is the entire season opener. The NFL did not have to schedule the Super Bowl LX rematch for the same night Seattle raises its banner, but they did, because there was no version of this league where they let that gift sit unused.
New England spent the offseason with one memory on repeat: 29-13, a loss with the Lombardi Trophy attached to it. Now they get to walk into Lumen Field, into the noise, into the ceremony built to celebrate beating them, and try to be the team that ruins it before the home crowd even sits down. Revenge games rarely arrive this loaded. Most teams wait years for a rematch. The Patriots got theirs in the season's first ten minutes of football.
None of that decides anything on the field. But it decides how this one feels, and it turns a Week 1 spread into the loudest number in the sport. Patriots minus 3.5, on the road, in the house where their worst night happened. Who's laying it, and who's taking the points?