More NFL on Netflix, whether you like it or not.
If it wasn’t obvious already, the NFL wants your undivided attention on Christmas Day.
After last season’s Christmas doubleheader on a Wednesday, the league is taking it a step further with the holiday falling on Thursday this season. Not only is Netflix keeping its doubleheader portion of the schedule, but Prime Video will stream the night-capper as part of its Thursday Night Football package. I know you can do math and figure out what 2 + 1 equals!
An NFL Christmas triple-header: NFL will play two games on Netflix that day before the Christmas nightcap on Amazon.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 1, 2025
Your move next, NBA commissioner Adam Silver. Or maybe this is just punishment for refusing to bring back the Sonics.
Last season marked the dawn of a new era for NFL broadcast rights. Streaming subscription service giant Netflix had never acquired live NFL games until Christmas Day 2024, when they landed the Kansas City Chiefs at Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens at Houston Texans. Both games were totally uninteresting blowouts but drew monster ratings. Due to the unusual nature of playing on Wednesday, all four teams played the preceding Saturday to not make an already short week even shorter.
The NFL won’t release its regular season schedule until May, but we know that six teams will be spending Christmas on the gridiron. Will the Seattle Seahawks be one of them? Probably not, but don’t rule anything out.