{"id":481093,"date":"2024-03-26T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481093"},"modified":"2024-03-26T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:42:08","slug":"nfl-to-play-2-matches-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nfl-to-play-2-matches-on-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL to play 2 matches on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL matches on Christmas Day remain the gifts that keep on giving for the organization, and that will continue in the upcoming season with 2 games despite the holiday falling on a Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nearly every day from December 20th-New Year&#39;s Day will now feature a College Football Playoff game, an NFL game, or both:<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 20: CFP game<br \/>Dec. 21: Three CFP games, NFL games<br \/>Dec. 22: NFL games<br \/>Dec. 23: Monday Night Football<br \/>Dec. 25: NFL Christmas Doubleheader<br \/>Dec. 26:\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3mjp4oo0vr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3mjp4oo0vr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1772702418729386407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Matchups for the matches, which will feature franchises that compete on the previous Saturday to give enough time for the players to rest, are not announced yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we look at the ratings from this past campaign, really our supporters spoke,&#8221; the league executive vice president of media distribution shared. &#8220;That leaves no doubt that they are very much enjoying and wanting to watch National Football League matches on Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The league played 3 matches on Christmas Day in the past year, as the Ravens, 49ers, Giants, Eagles, Raiders, and Chiefs all competed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Day matches were among the most-watched games in the league in the past season, as Baltimore against San Francisco got over 27 million viewers, making it the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> most-watched \u201cMNF\u201d match since 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL matches on Christmas Day remain the gifts that keep on giving for the organization, and that will continue in the upcoming season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873],"acf":{"announce":"The league will play 2 games on Christmas in 2024.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481096,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481093\/revisions\/481096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481093"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481093"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}