NFL Schedule Launch day has change into the de facto Tremendous Bowl for the social media departments of all 32 groups.
Over time, these good of us have logged numerous hours arising with artistic methods to unveil their crew’s schedules. In some cases, these launch movies faucet into the bigger cultural zeitgeist, drawing inspiration from standard tv reveals or motion pictures. One such instance got here from the Atlanta Falcons forward of the 2019 season, with this launch video impressed by the opening credit from Recreation of Thrones:
One of many extra artistic movies from this yr’s crop comes from the Baltimore Ravens, who turned to the psychological thriller Severance as their inspiration:
All the things about this practically seven-minute video is ideal, from the music to the outside photographs of the Lumon workplace complicated. But when we needed to choose a couple of highlights:
Malachi Starks waking up on a convention room desk, a nod to the primary scenes of the present
Ar’Darius Washington’s “outie” assembly a Ravens fan and being utterly confused by the schedule
Kyle Hamilton studying that his “outie” is a cat particular person
John Harbaugh, Eric DeCosta, and the goats
Tyler Linderbaum listening to “the board has concluded the decision”
The marching band sequence
The video has Easter Eggs for each followers of the present and followers of the Ravens, and is nicely price your time.