NFL's Los Angeles Chargers Reveal 2026 Schedule Using Halo

NFL teams person been coming up with originative ways to denote their play schedules successful caller years, from utilizing memes to parodies to celebrities. For 2026, the Los Angeles Chargers person turned to Halo successful bid to archer everyone who they'll beryllium playing successful the upcoming season.

The squad posted a six-minute video, whose instauration notes that the Chargers got support from Microsoft and that they didn't usage immoderate existent gameplay footage. It's modeled aft a multiplayer setup screen, with each week's hostile listed arsenic if it was a multiplayer map. They look to person adjacent hired Halo multiplayer announcer Jeff Steitzer (or a fantastic soundalike) to bash callouts for each week, specified arsenic "Beast Mode" for the Seahawks matchup successful Week 4, implicit with a faux Pike Place Market level. Plenty of NFL and pop-culture references are baked successful arsenic well, including a subtle motion to the ungraded that Week 12 hostile New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel is presently mired in.

Halo, meanwhile, volition beryllium "on the field" this season, arsenic Halo: Campaign Evolved, the Unreal Engine 5 remake of the archetypal Halo: Combat Evolved's campaign, is owed for merchandise sometime this year. We'll apt get a merchandise day for it astatine the upcoming Xbox Showcase. Check retired our hands-on preview impressions successful the meantime.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of some IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, arsenic good arsenic our semi-retired interrogation show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.