The New York Giants were under serious consideration to be the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks’ opponent in the Wednesday, Sept. 9 season-opening game in Seattle, **[according to a report from SB Nation’s Windy Citty Gridiron](https://www.windycitygridiron.com/chicago-bears-schedule/116510/giants-not-bears-were-nfls-2nd-choice-after-patriots-for-nfl-kickoff-game)**.
The NFL chose to open the season with a Super Bowl rematch between the Seahawks and New England Patriots, but Windy City Gridiron said “if the NFL went a different direction and didn’t select the Patriots for that game, they would have selected the New York Giants. The NFL believes the Giants are a team on the rise, and with John Harbaugh coaching his first game in New York, the NFL felt that that would have been the best option after the Patriots.”
The Giants open at home against the Dallas Cowboys on Sept. 13, two days after the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Windy City Gridiron said “the NFL felt it was best to have the Giants play at home to open the season to honor that anniversary.”
The Giants will instead travel across the country to face the Seahawks in Week 14, part of a difficult six-week closing stretch that includes home games vs. the San Francisco, Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles, and road encounters vs. the Cowboys and Detroit Lions.
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