The NFL will play its first-ever regular season game in Germany Sunday when the Seattle Seahawks take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Considering both teams enter Week 10 in first place in their respective divisions, it’s one of the best international games in league history.
Munich’s Allianz Arena will host the Germany game at 9:30 a.m. ET. NFL Network will broadcast the contest on TV. Viewers can watch a live stream of the Seahawks and Buccaneers with NFL+ or nfl.com.
With a 6-3 record, Seattle has been one of the league’s most pleasant surprises in the 2022 season. The Seahawks have a 1.5-game lead atop the NFC West and are one victory away from matching last year’s win total.
Tampa Bay needs a win more than Seattle. The Buccaneers are 4-5 and only in first place because the NFC South has been the conference’s weakest division.
Geno Smith has outperformed Tom Brady in 2022. The Seahawks quarterback is third among all starters with a 107.2 passer rating. Brady’s 90.5 passer rating ranks 13th in the league. The seven-time Super Bowl champion has thrown more than one touchdown pass in just one game this season.
“We’re playing a great team in Seattle,” Tom Brady said on SiriusXM’s “Let’s Go!” podcast. “They’re first place in their division. We’re tied for first place in ours and it’s a big challenge because, you know, to fly across the ocean like that, new time zone, it’s a 9:30 [a.m.] eastern kickoff. It’ll have its challenges. The weather’s gonna be a little cool, but we’re playing in this very, very cool arena (Allianz Arena) where Bayern Munich plays, kind of the country’s top soccer team, and it looks amazing in pictures. And look, I mean the chance to go across to another country, play a sport that I love, I have heard there’s 3 million ticket requests for 67,000 seats. So the place is gonna be rocking and if it’s anything like what I see in those German Bundesliga games this is gonna be one of the epic games that we’ve ever played in. So I’m super excited.”
All three international games this season have been decided by one score. The Denver Broncos defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 21-17 in the most recent contest overseas.
The Buccaneers are 2.5-point favorites over the Seahawks.
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