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A Football First: NFL Will Show 3 Games Next Christmas Day
The Dec. 25th holiday arrives on a Sunday in 2022 and not even the biggest day off of the year can keep the NFL from playing its regularly scheduled games. The league has announced very early that it will be showing three games on Christmas for the first time ever - two in the afternoon and another in prime time.
For years, only the NBA traditionally played on Dec. 25th, and this will be a real challenge for sports fans to pick which of the games to watch. (Although the NFL has aired a game the last three holidays. But it's never shown three the same day.) Networks involved are CBS & Fox (afternoon) and NBC (at night.)
The regular season (or as I like to call it, the week prime time becomes completely unreliable for months) kicks off Sept. 8th.
2022 NFL schedule to feature three games on Christmas Day
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Re: A Football First: NFL Will Show 3 Games Next Christmas Day
Makes sense given that Christmas Day falls on a Sunday this year. It shall be interesting to see if they do it next year when it falls on a Monday.
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torontostan wrote:
Makes sense given that Christmas Day falls on a Sunday this year. It shall be interesting to see if they do it next year when it falls on a Monday.
According to this SI piece, there's a good chance you will see the same in '23 (last paragraph).
NFL plans first Christmas Day tripleheader of games in 2022 season - Sports Illustrated
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The NFL has played on Dec 25th in 1971, 1989, 1993-95, 2000, 2004-06, 2009-11, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. 1971, 2004-2006, 2016, 2017 and 2021 were all DH's.
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Some of us are old enough to remember the firestorm when the NFL first played games on Christmas Day. I believe one of them was the classic 1971 double overtime game between Miami and Kansas City. It was as if Pete Rozelle cancelled Christmas. It was as sacrilegious to many as playing games 2 days after JFK's assassination. We've either made progress, or gone backwards, in the past 50 years.