Chargers schedule release video: L.A. uses Minecraft to troll Jordon Schultz, Ian Rapoport, Pete Carroll, others

The NFL’s schedule release has largely gotten blown way out of proportion. The talk shows do a three-hour night show about each team’s schedule, but the schedules have mostly already been largely leaked by local beat reporters and the opponents have been set in stone for months. 

The lone bright spot of the schedule release developing into a huge event is that social media teams have been given a chance to thrive. Rather than just putting up a video showing the opponents, dates and kickoff times, NFL social media teams have let their creative juices flow and they have come up with everything from completely out of left field to animated videos that are riddled with local easter eggs for their fans. 

Whenever this movement began, the Chargers’ social media team made a name for itself. It always seemed to have either the most in-depth, the best looking or the funniest schedule release video. Los Angeles has been releasing personalized schedule release videos since 2020. 

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Here is more the Chargers’ 2025 schedule release video.

Chargers schedule release video

The Chargers really like doubling up on a theme. The 2022 and 2023 releases were both anime themed, and the 2024 schedule release was video game themed. Los Angeles stuck with the latter in 2025, and chose to dive into the world of Minecraft. 

The video has so many little nods in it. The shots at the division are funny with the Raiders having the worst house with embarrassing pictures of new head coach Pete Carroll on the wall, the Broncos always getting herded, and the Chiefs being destroyed by an eagle. The trolls didn’t stop there, though. 

The Giants lived in a spider-web-infested apartment and were then haunted by a ghost of Saquon Barkley. Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel was shown completing an interview and swimming away, since he has been known to sprint to the locker room at halftime. The Colts got trolled with a quarterback race, but Anthony Richardson needed to stop because he was tired. The Steelers were told that they had two players going down two paths, one labeled rebuild and one labeled contender, but they ended up at the same place: 9-8. 

Jacksonville was trolled with the weird way new head coach Liam Coen says Duvall. The Cowboys were trolled with their fans sprinting into the stadium and light aggressively shining through the stadium windows. Even the credits were filled with troll moments as Ian Rapoport and Jordan Schultz’s fight from the NFL Combine was shown. 

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What is Minecraft?

Minecraft is one of the most popular video games of all time. It is what is known as a “sandbox” game. Whenever you load into a world in Minecraft, that is your personal server. Everything is randomized for you, and you are able to build and do whatever you want in your world. You can create a civilization from the ground up, depending on the resources that were generated in your world. The game is so immersive and massive that you can the most advanced users have created versions of other popular video games inside Minecraft. 

It was also recently in the public eye because a movie about Minecraft was just released in theaters. 

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History of Chargers schedule release videos

2024 

The 2024 schedule release video is one of the best ones every made. The Chargers’ social media team used the Sims to put in so many easter eggs and digs at opponents that this feels like a work of art. 

2023

The 2023 schedule release was a sequel to the 2022 version and stuck with the anime theme. It had another great soundtrack with it, and looked visually stunning. They still used these aspects to troll their opponents, like when they showed the Lions and a gambling help line screen because a handful of Detroit players had just been caught gambling. 

2022

The 2022 schedule release video looked like an intro from an anime. This video had some troll moments for the opponents, but had more easter eggs from popular animes that fans were quick to spot. 

2021

Still in the COVID-10 times, the 2021 schedule release video took fans back to the world of Zoom meetings. This time, star Joey Bosa delivered a PowerPoint that had plenty of transitions and memes as he revealed the team’s upcoming schedule. 

2020

The original schedule release video came in 2020. This was at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Los Angeles had local first responders help to reveal the upcoming season’s order of games. 

The 2020 Chargers schedule reveal video can be found here.