How to watch and stream the Chiefs-Ravens Week 1 game on Thursday

The Kansas City Chiefs are officially set to kick off the 2024 NFL season against the Baltimore Ravens at 7:20 p.m. CT on Thursday, Sept. 5.

As the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Chiefs get the honor of kicking off the upcoming season with a home matchup at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. There, they'll celebrate their win one last time with a banner ceremony ( they already raised one at the indoor practice facility ) before turning the page to the 2024 NFL season. Their first matchup, of course, is a rematch of the AFC Championship Game . Both of these teams, however, have undergone significant changes.

Who will emerge victorious? You'll have to tune in to find out.

How to Watch and Stream Chiefs vs. Ravens Week 1

• National TV: NBC
• Local TV: KSHB-TV
• Announcers: Mike Tirico (play-by-play), Chris Collinsworth (analyst), Melissa Stark (sideline)
• Football Night in America: 6 p.m. CT
  
• Streaming option 1: Peacock
• Streaming option 2: NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTubeTV
• Streaming option 3: NFL+ (Only on Mobile devices)

World’s Largest Tailgate: The Tailgate Games

Ahead of the season opener, the Chiefs will once again host the "World's Largest Tailgate: The Tailgate Games" with an experience featuring Arrowhead Stadium’s iconic tailgate experience, a celebration of Chiefs fans’ welcoming spirit, and highlights a fun and friendly competition. Co-hosted by actor and comedian Rob Riggle and broadcaster Hayley Lewis, several competitions will highlight this year's experience.

• The Sauce Relay – a relay race in which participants will traverse an obstacle course while carrying containers of BBQ sauce. At the finish line, competitors will pour the remaining sauce into a bucket, and the team with the heaviest bucket when the timer runs out wins.
• The 2-Minute Drill – a passing challenge where participants wear helmets with blacked-out visors and must attempt to complete as many passes into cardboard cutouts as possible in two minutes.
• Coach’s Cheeseburger Challenge – a cheeseburger assembly challenge with a twist: chefs won’t be able to use their own hands but will instead rely on a partner’s hands from behind them. The competitor who is using their hands will be blindfolded and the competitor in front has to guide their partner. The team that assembles the most cheeseburgers within the time limit wins.
• Chiefs Cup – a variation on the traditional flip cup competition where the cups get progressively larger throughout the game. Before competitors can begin flipping their cup they have to dump a cupful of confetti on their heads. The first team to flip all its cups wins.

Fans who aren't at Arrowhead Stadium can watch at www.ChiefsLive.com beginning at 5:00 p.m. CT.

Game Timeline + Entertainment + Banner Ceremony

Timeline for Chiefs vs. Ravens on Thursday, Sept. 5

• 2:30 p.m. – Parking Gates Open
• 3:00 p.m. – Ford Tailgate District Opens
• 4:30 p.m. – CommunityAmerica Club Level Gates Open
• 5:00 p.m. – All GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium Gates Open
• 5:00 p.m. – World’s Largest Tailgate: The Tailgate Games
• 6:20 p.m. – Team Warm-Ups Begin
• 6:55 p.m. – “Lift Every Voice” Performance
• 7:09 p.m. – Championship Banner Ceremony
• 7:12 p.m. – Chiefs Team Introduction
• 7:14 p.m. – Ravens Team Introduction
• 7:16 p.m. – Coin Toss
• 7:18 p.m. – National Anthem
• 7:22 p.m. – Kickoff

Via Chiefs: American singer-songwriter and actress, Coco Jones, will perform the national anthem while the Lenexa Fire Department will present the colors. The performance of “Lift Every Voice” will be sung by Tasha Cobbs Leonard. The flyover will be conducted by the 509 ^th Bomb Squadron’s B-2 Stealth Bomber out of Whiteman Air Force Base.

To put a final bow on the 2023 season for Chiefs fans and the club’s Season Ticket Members, the team will host a short Super Bowl LVIII ceremony and championship banner unveiling before kickoff. Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt, along with members of the Hunt family, will be joined on the field by special alumni guests to celebrate Kansas City’s fourth Lombardi Trophy before the new banner is revealed and the 2024 season gets underway.

The Chiefs introduced the GEHA Deck in 2019 as the home for two gameday traditions – the Drum Honoree and the Tony DiPardo Spirit Leader. Actor and comedian Rob Riggle will serve as this week’s Drum Honoree. The Tony DiPardo Spirit Leader will be Sergeant First Class Tylor Hall, from 1 ^st Brigade Combat Team, 1 ^st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Weather report and other notable details about Week 1

There's very little risk of weather interfering with the Chiefs' Week 1 matchup against the Ravens in their outdoor stadium. At kickoff, it's expected to be 85 degrees with partly cloudy skies and six-mile-per-hour wind gusts. There's only a two percent chance of precipitation during the game.

This game marks a rematch of last season's AFC Championship Game. The Chiefs defeated the Ravens 17-10 after that game. Kansas City held Baltimore to an uncharacteristic 81 total rushing yards after they ranked first in the NFL with over 156 rushing yards per game during the 2023 season. They also held them to 3-of-11 third-down conversions, which was one of their lowest marks of the season.

Related: First Chiefs injury report heading into the Week 1 tilt with the Ravens goes exactly as expected