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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 ...
The NFL played two games on Christmas in 2005, 2006, 2016, and 2017 and one each in 2009, 2010, and 2011. Since 2020, there's been at least one game on the holiday and as many as three matchups in ...
Zygmunt resigned on December 22nd, 2008, the day after a week 16 loss to the San Francisco 49ers that dropped the Ram's record to 2–13. In February 2008 the Rams hired Devaney as vice president of pro personnel to help conduct their 2008 draft. He was promoted to general manager of the Rams after Zygmunt's resignation. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: GM
The 2009 season featured a Friday night game on December 25, as the Thursday that week was Christmas Eve, and the NFL tried not to schedule games that night in deference to the holiday (a lone exception being a Monday Night Football game in 2007 due to scheduling conflicts caused by ESPN's broadcast contracts). Also, the start times were pushed ...
Last year's Christmas rout of the San Francisco 49ers served as the unofficial coronation of his second MVP campaign. While Jackson isn't the runaway favorite now, this game could end up being an ...
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 ...
The 2009 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 64th season, 60th in the National Football League (NFL), and the first and only full year with Mike Singletary as head coach after being named interim head coach in 2008. [1]
Netflix NFL Christmas Gameday was a record-breaking day, reaching 65 million US viewers according to Nielsen! With an average of more than 24 million people watching each game, Chiefs-Steelers and ...