The 2024 NFL schedule was finally released on May 15, the latest date it’s been dropped in recent memory. And just like last year, I’m here to give you the best revenge games on the upcoming regular-season slate.
If you’re one of those clowns (like Pete Prisco) who claim revenge games aren’t real, get a clue, man. Not only will I prove it to you in the list of 10 games, but we have a current superstar wide receiver who has gone on record saying revenge games are absolutely a thing.
Amon-Ra St. Brown — the man who lists off every wide receiver drafted ahead of him every day when he wakes up — told our FFT guys that revenge games are absolutely real.
Generally speaking, we like to find non-divisional games to include here, but we’ve made some exceptions below. Enjoy and soak up the spite.
Honorable mentions
Why just honorable mention? Because ordinarily I don’t like to include divisional matchups on this list because these teams play each other multiple times per year and there’s always bad blood. Every player should be amped to go up against a hated division rival. But in this particular case there are two running backs who happened to swap teams this past year — Saquon Barkley and Aaron Jones — that have fairly early season matchups against their old squads.
Barkley has been getting KILLED this offseason by insane Giants fans, and he can viably be miffed because New York never actually paid him despite drafting him second overall. Jones got kicked to the curb by the Packers despite being a fan favorite and lighting up rushing defenses down the stretch to help Green Bay make the playoffs last year. He quickly inked with the Vikings and should be out to crush his old team, Full Favre Style in Week 4 of the season.
Week 1, 8:20 p.m. ET, ESPN
You may be wondering “Whaaaaaaaa” with this one. Well, we’re going to give you a couple reasons: Aaron Rodgers is going to try and get revenge against his Achilles. He’s going to try and get revenge against “Monday Night Football.” He’s going to try and get revenge against Week 1 and — most importantly — he’s actually going back to California to take on the team who passed on him with the first overall pick. Obviously his career ended up better than Alex Smith’s did, maybe in large part because he fell to the Packers, but that wild night in New York during the first round of the draft occurred because the 49ers didn’t draft…
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