NFL Plans to Add Christmas Day Games to 2024 Schedule

The rivals, venues and number of matches that will take place on this particular date have yet to be defined.

The parties that NFL has played on the day of Christmas They continue to be the gift that has given so much to the league and that will continue in 2024 even though that festive date will fall on Wednesday, sources confirmed to ESPN. The commitments in question are yet to be determined.

The NFL scheduled three games on the day of Christmas in 2023 by choosing the duels between Baltimore Ravens-San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants-Philadelphia Eagles and Las Vegas Raiders-Kansas City Chiefs to be held on a Monday.

The matches of the day Christmas have generated extraordinary ratings for television in the United States since the transmission of ESPN of the Ravens-49ers game had more than 27.2 million viewers, making it the second highest record since 1996 for a clash of Monday Night Football.

Overall, the league has held 30 games on matchdays. Christmas since they scheduled two Divisional Round matches for the first time on December 25, 1971 and, since 2020, there are already nine matches that fall on this particular date.

The Wall Street Journal was the first medium to announce that the NFL plans to add matches on Saturday to its 2024 schedule Christmas.

2024-03-26 16:24:05
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