The NFL starts! This is what fans need to know about the new season

The goal of all teams is the Super Bowl in Las Vegas - a first in the over 100-year history of the world's best football league. With the signing of the already graying superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the fans of the New York Jets are also hoping for great luck and a trip to the Nevada desert.

Before the first game against the Buffalo Bills on Monday, Rodgers, Super Bowl winner in 2011 with the Green Bay Packers and four-time league MVP, once again appealed to his teammates. “What are you willing to sacrifice in your free time to make things the way we want it? That's a question we all need to ask ourselves this year. We have a lot of goals in mind that are actually achievable,” said the 39-year-old, who follows the Tom Brady model. He won his last Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the age of 43. By the way: Last season, there was no starting quarterback in the last eight teams in the playoffs older than 29 years.

Aaron Rodgers will play for New York in the future. © APA / MIKE STOBE

In order to still achieve his goals, Rodgers has forgone several million dollars in salary and thus made room for other top-class players in the squad. For example, Dalvin Cook: The former Minnesota Vikings running back is expected to deliver touchdowns until Breece Hall fully recovers from a torn cruciate ligament. As a starting point, Rodgers can count on Garrett Wilson, the offensive “Rookie of the Year” from the previous season. Nevertheless, in a division with the Bills, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots, it will be a tough job for the Jets to even get into the play-offs.

Max Pircher with a new attempt NFL fans in German-speaking countries will be able to admire two of the teams mentioned up close this fall. In the first Frankfurt game on November 5th, the Dolphins will face the Kansas City Chiefs, with whom star quarterback Patrick Mahomes is chasing his third NFL title. The opening match against the Lions will be a tough test, as a hungry, offensively strong team has formed in the “Motor City”. This also includes 23-year-old Max Pircher from Brixen, who moved from the Los Angeles Rams to Detroit this summer and is hoping for his first NFL appearance there. Also Super Bowl candidates are the Cincinnati Bengals, the Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo and the San Francisco 49ers.

On November 12th, the Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts will meet in Frankfurt, where the Austrian Bernhard Raimann is entering his second year as an offensive tackle - and is hoping for a turnaround. The man he has to protect is one of the league's most promising quarterback talents: Anthony Richardson. The Arizona Cardinals will have little reason to be happy, because the “Cards” are undergoing a drastic change; almost a dozen top performers have left the team. In addition, quarterback Kyler Murray will also be out longer after tearing his cruciate ligament.

The NFL on TV The home of the NFL in German-speaking countries is new on linear television. The rights moved from the ProSiebenSat.1 group to RTL. According to RTL sports director Andreas von Thien, the broadcaster is “fire and flame for the NFL” and has also signed up well-known faces from ProSieben such as presenter Jan Stecker, Patrick Esume and former professional players Björn Werner, Markus Kuhn and Sebastian Vollmer. In South Tyrol and Italy, the NFL can also be seen on the paid streaming service DAZN.

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The NFL starts! This is what fans need to know about the new season

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