Jerry Jones is without doubt one of the most excessive profile and outspoken NFL team homeowners. The 82-year-old billionaire hardly ever shies away from sharing his ideas on a wide range of topics, particularly relating to matters associated to skilled soccer.
Earlier this yr, the league introduced that it reached a three-year cope with Netflix. The settlement gave the streaming big the rights to the 2024 Christmas Day doubleheader. The sport will probably be out there completely to Netflix subscribers at no further price.
While Christmas falls on a Wednesday this yr, Jones hopes video games will proceed to be scheduled on an annual foundation, irrespective of which day of the week the vacation occurs to fall on.
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Dallas Cowboys staff proprietor Jerry Jones (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson/File)
“Christmas Day is Christmas Day, and it doesn’t wait round for what day it’s on. We need to be there on Christmas Day,” Jones stated throughout his newest look on Dallas radio station 105.3 The Fan.
“I’d suppose the long run is no matter day it’s on, we’re going to be there on Christmas.”
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Christmas falls on a Thursday in 2025. The NFL schedule makers will possible be ready for that, contemplating the league already holds video games on Thursday nights all through the common season. However, 2029 may current some challenges as the vacation falls on a Tuesday.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers host the reigning back-to-back champion Kansas City Chiefs within the first of the 2 vacation video games. The Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans additionally go head-to-head within the particular vacation set of video games. All 4 of these groups performed their Week 16 video games on Saturday to accommodate for competing on a Wednesday.
Music famous person and Houston native Beyoncé is anticipated to carry out at halftime of the Texans-Ravens sport at NRG Stadium.
The league has scheduled video games on Christmas Day for the previous few years. But for many years, the NBA historically dominated the vacation by scheduling a number of video games all through Christmas Day. While the NBA nonetheless schedules a few of its marquee groups on the vacation, these video games now must compete with the NFL.
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No NHL games are scheduled for Wednesday.
Netflix additionally purchased the rights to stream not less than one vacation sport in 2025 and 2026, in line with the phrases of the multiyear cope with the league.
“Last yr, we determined to take a giant wager on stay – tapping into huge fandoms throughout comedy, actuality TV, sports activities and extra,” Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria stated in a information launch in May shortly after the Christmas Day package deal of video games was introduced.
“There aren’t any stay annual occasions, sports activities or in any other case, that evaluate with the audiences NFL soccer attracts. We’re so excited that the NFL’s Christmas Day video games will probably be solely on Netflix.”
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But Netflix is internet hosting the particular Christmas Day video games beneath some strain after lots of its subscribers confronted issues with the live stream feed in the course of the latest combat between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
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