The NFL acknowledged Friday there was no guarantee that the Seahawks would host the first game of the 2026 season , an honor generally given to the defending Super Bowl champion. The reason it might not have happened was the complication of the league playing its first regular season game in Australia between the Rams and 49ers in Melbourne, also set for the first week of the season. “We have flexibility certainly with how and what window we put the Super Bowl champ in that first weekend,” said Hans Schroeder, the league’s executive vice president of media distribution in a conference call Friday to discuss the making of the 2026 regular season schedule a day after it was unveiled. Consideration was made to putting the Rams-49ers game on a Wednesday night in the United States, Thursday morning in Australia — a day before the Seahawks would have played — so that each team would have additional time to get back and recover before Week 2.…