The NFL will take over Christmas Day in 2025. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the league will have three games on Christmas Day, which falls on a Thursday this year.
Two games will stream exclusively on Netflix, while the third game will be the typical Thursday night game streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Last year, the NFL debuted on Netflix for a Wednesday Christmas Day game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Arizona Cardinals potentially could be involved with those games.
The NFL has not released its 2025 regular-season schedule yet, but the Cardinals have played on Christmas Day recently, hosting the Indianapolis Colts on Christmas in 2021 and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2022.
While adding streaming-only games to the schedule is frustrating to some fans, it never impacts the fans in the local markets of the teams playing. The NFL always offers a free, over-the-air broadcast for those markets, so even if the Cardinals were to play in one of the Netflix games, it would air on one of the local TV stations as well.
The league continues to partner with streaming services for game broadcasts.
- Netflix will now have two games.
- Peacock gets the Brazil game and a playoff game.
- Amazon Prime Video has Thursday night games.
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