The NFL schedule release day has become a much anticipated event on the spring sports calendar. The NFL Network has a TV special for it and fans anxiously await to see their team’s schedule. In the NFL your opponents for the following year are dictated by your finish, so who/where you play is not a mystery, but the dates are. Fans keenly await word about key opponents as well as nationally televised games or special dates like the first game of the year, Thanksgiving or Christmas. The teams also make their own videos for social media announcing their schedules, usually with some humerus theme, and fans look forward to these as well. The San Diego Chargers have become famous for their using video games like Halo, Minecraft and The Sims. This year the New England Patriots used players riding the roller coasters at Six Flags New England as their theme.

This hilarious piece features Christian Gonzalez, Marcus Jones, Brenden Schooler, TreVeyon Henderson, Kyle Williams, Craig Woodson and Efton Chism riding roller coasters at Six Flags New England to help reveal the upcoming NFL calendar. The players screamed out the schedule while riding the park’s new dual-launch straddle coaster, the Quantum Accelerator and other coasters such as Wicked Cyclone and Pandemonium. Star quarterback Drake Maye even made a cameo representing the Week 11 bye by walking through the parking lot carrying giant stuffed animals won at carnival games. The team also released a “behind the scenes” video and it looks like the players had a ton of fun putting the schedule release video together.

The Patriots are not the only NFL team with a roller coaster relation, in fact the Pittsburgh Steelers even have a roller coaster named and themed after them. Steel Curtain at Kennywood is a record holding coaster with the tallest inversion in the United States (until Tormenta opens) and has nine total inversions. Another NFL relation to roller coasters is that the San Francisco 49ers stadium neighbors California’s Great America. The Super Bowl MVP also always heads to Disney the next day too! No doubt I’m missing some other connections here, but the NFL and theme park connections are numerous. It’s great to see the Patriots do such a fun video with their local park and bring attention to the great coaster collection at Six Flags New England.