Schedule Release Could Make Mike Vrabel NFL’s Punching Bag
Unfortunately for Vrabel, the Patriots face the Chargers in 2026.
The cone of silence surrounding the Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini story inside the NFL could give way to mockery when teams release their full 2026 game schedules in mid-May. Unfortunately for Vrabel, the annual schedule release is the one day where NFL teams are unofficially allowed to poke fun at their opponents. The league’s 32 rival clubs spare no one.
The insults dreamed up by social media teams can be savagely funny. The Chargers, for example, are the acknowledged masters of throwing shade at other teams and their star players. In their 2024 schedule release video, the Chargers showed Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker as a Suzy Homemaker-type toiling away in the kitchen.
The Sims -style video mocked Butker’s controversial commencement speech, where he urged women to give up careers in favor of spousal duties and motherhood. The Chargers also lampooned Travis Kelce’s romance with Taylor Swift, with the pop superstar picking up her boyfriend in a private jet. The video has drawn 38.
5 million views on X/Twitter. Chargers put Harrison Butker in the kitchen pic. twitter.
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