The NFL officially plans to resume Christmas in 2025 by holding a tripleheader on Thursday, December 25. The League has historically avoided planning matches when Christmas fell on a Thursday – it has never organized a Thursday at Christmas game – but in recent years, the NFL has fully adopted the holidays, which is why a tripleheder takes place, the CBS Sports Insider Jonathan Jones confirms.
After the League decided to play Christmas last season, when the holidays were on Wednesday, it became clear that the NFL was going to start playing at Christmas every year, whatever the day the holidays took place.
The three 2025 games will go to Netflix and Amazon, Adam Schefter reported on Tuesday. Since Christmas is a Thursday, Amazon will get its standard Thursday evening match while Netflix will take care of the other two games as part of a three -year agreement Signed with the NFL in 2024.
If the NFL sticks to the same Christmas tripleheader calendar he had in the past, the games will be staggered throughout the day with kick -off hours at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8:20 p.m..
The NFL has planned a total of eight Christmas games in the past three years – three in 2022, three in 2023 and two in 2024 – and they all recorded huge television notes. Last season’s two Christmas games have both recorded more than 24 million viewers on Netflix, which is a large number for matches that were only available via streaming.
The owners of the NFL approve the major rules of rules for 2025: the kick -off and the overtime to modify, “Tash push” prohibition
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The NFL has been playing regular season games at Christmas since 1989, and for 35 years, the League has been looking to use the holidays whenever possible. In 2004, the NFL played its first Christmas double head, and now, 21 years later, we got our first Christmas match on Thursday.
The teams playing in Christmas matches will be revealed in May when the NFL calendar is published.