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The NFL is Taking Christmas Day from the NBA Because it Can

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Apr 25th, 2022 · 10:21 AM EDT

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Looks like the NFL is going to cuck the NBA and take over Christmas Day this year, which falls on a Sunday:

For the first time, the NFL will play two afternoon games and a prime-time contest on Christmas Day:https://t.co/29a1EccpF2

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 23, 2022

The NFL is going to own Christmas:

For Week 16, the league will have its regular Thursday night game on Dec. 22. Eleven games will be on Dec. 24, including a night game on NFL Network. After the Christmas tripleheader, the week will close with a Monday night contest on Dec. 26.

This sucks for anyone who is a last minute shopper like me. It’s hard enough dodging lines and finding last minute gifts, but having to plan it around football now? This might be the first time your boyfriend or husband gets his list done before Christmas Eve.

You know what? I’m going to call it now. Online shopping records will be broken this Christmas season because of this football schedule. Let Amazon handle everything. You kick back with a nice beer on the couch and watch 14 games in 48 hours. Yea, the wife is going to want to murder you for the first 11 while she’s cleaning for company or trying to wrangle in the kids to go to grandmom’s house. But wait until she opens the diamond necklace you got her in the morning. You’re smooth sailing on 12/25. Thank you, Jeff Bezos.

Speaking of Bezos, I’m going to need a Black Friday Game. Imagine the NFL leading into USA vs. England in the World Cup (from Pro Football Talk):

As we’ve previously written, Amazon is very interested in a Black Friday game. King writes that Amazon would pay between $70 million and $100 million for a Black Friday game, which means between $2.1 million and $3.2 million per team. The owners may see that money as too good to pass up.

The game would likely have to be played in the afternoon, as the league can’t televise prime time games on Friday nights in November as part of its antitrust exemption. This year that would mean competing with the USA-England World Cup match, which is also scheduled for Black Friday afternoon.