NFL's Week 1 9/11 tribute begins in Seattle with wild guitar solo during national anthem

The NFL promised that its Week 1 games would honor the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the 25th anniversary. However, individual teams had some leeway in how they did so, and the Seattle Seahawks took a uniquely local approach. The league’s first game of the 2026 regular season, a rematch of Super Bowl LX between the visiting New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, featured a pregame announcement that will be heard throughout the league Thursday in Australia, before Sunday’s