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The 2004 NFL season was the first with multiple Christmas games since 1971. The Chiefs and Broncos beat the Raiders and Tennessee Titans , respectively, in the holiday doubleheader.
The first NFL games actually played on December 25 came after the merger, during the 1971–72 NFL playoffs.The first two games of the Divisional Playoff Round were held on Christmas Day; the first of these was between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings, while the second of the two contests played that afternoon, the Miami Dolphins versus the Kansas City Chiefs, wound up being the ...
It took until the 1971 NFL season for the NFL to hold games on Christmas. Because of the 10- and later 14-game regular season, the season was typically over by the holiday and the Super Bowl would ...
1989: Minnesota Vikings 29, Cincinnati Bengals 21 — The first NFL game on Christmas in 18 years was a "Monday Night Football" game that served as the 1989 regular-season finale.
There have been 30 Christmas games in NFL history, and 25 teams have participated in at least one of them.
The DuMont Network then paid a rights fee of US$75,000 to broadcast the 1951 NFL Championship Game across the entire nation. [2] From 1953 to 1955, DuMont also televised Saturday night NFL games. It was the first time that NFL fixtures were broadcast live, coast-to-coast, in prime time, for the entire season. The broadcasts ended after the 1955 ...
The NFL first experimented with Christmas Day games in 1971, back when the regular season was 14 games and ended in mid-December. That year, the league staged two divisional playoff games: Dallas ...
Netflix’s inaugural NFL Christmas Gameday presentation of Chiefs vs. Steelers and Ravens vs. Texans averaged more than 24 million viewers for each gridiron match-up. Ravens-Texans averaged 24.3 ...