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- Christmas Day and Christmas Eve games in the National Football League (NFL) are an occasional part of the league's schedule. In contrast to Thanksgiving Day games, however, they are not an annual occurrence, since Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday while Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, December 24–25, can fall at any day of the week. The NFL held two Divisional Playoff games on Christmas Day in 1971 when the regular season only spanned a 14-week period. This proved unpopular, and the league avoided any more games on Christmas Day until 1989. Since then, the NFL has occasionally held games on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in some years, as part of week 16 or 17 of the regular season. At the end of the 2022 season, there will have been 27 Christmas Day games in the NFL's history, all broadcast nationally. Two games were played each Christmas Day from 2004 to 2006, 2016 to 2017, and 2021. For the first time, three Christmas Day games are scheduled in 2022. The NFL has typically scheduled games on Christmas Day, December 25, if it falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. When Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, then it would just be part of the normal slate of the handful of Saturday NFL games held during the final weeks of every regular season. If Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, then the normal slate of Sunday afternoon games is instead played on Saturday, Christmas Eve, and one of the Christmas Day games will include the standard Sunday Night Football telecast. When Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday, the Sunday Night Football telecast has been moved to either Monday afternoon, Christmas Day, preceding the standard Monday Night Football game, or to Saturday, December 23. There have been rare instances of Christmas Day games held on a Friday and Christmas Eve games on a Thursday. (en)
- Julmatcher i National Football League är ett återkommande evenemang, men till skillnad från Thanksgiving Classic sker det inte årligen. Generellt sett försöker NFL undvika matcher på juldagen då det traditionellt sett firas jul i USA. En majoritet av matcherna i varje omgång spelas på söndagar och skulle den 25 december infalla på en söndag brukar NFL i regel flytta alla utom en eller två matcher till lördagen den 24 december. Senast det spelades en match på juldagen var 2011 när Green Bay Packers besegrade Chicago Bears med 35-21 på Lambeau Field (sv)
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- Julmatcher i National Football League är ett återkommande evenemang, men till skillnad från Thanksgiving Classic sker det inte årligen. Generellt sett försöker NFL undvika matcher på juldagen då det traditionellt sett firas jul i USA. En majoritet av matcherna i varje omgång spelas på söndagar och skulle den 25 december infalla på en söndag brukar NFL i regel flytta alla utom en eller två matcher till lördagen den 24 december. Senast det spelades en match på juldagen var 2011 när Green Bay Packers besegrade Chicago Bears med 35-21 på Lambeau Field (sv)
- Christmas Day and Christmas Eve games in the National Football League (NFL) are an occasional part of the league's schedule. In contrast to Thanksgiving Day games, however, they are not an annual occurrence, since Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday while Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, December 24–25, can fall at any day of the week. The NFL held two Divisional Playoff games on Christmas Day in 1971 when the regular season only spanned a 14-week period. This proved unpopular, and the league avoided any more games on Christmas Day until 1989. Since then, the NFL has occasionally held games on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in some years, as part of week 16 or 17 of the regular season. (en)
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