Netflix will carry NFL games on Christmas Day for 3 years, including 2 this upcoming season

The NFL’s Mike North wasn’t considering Christmas Day as part of the 2024 regular-season schedule when preliminary planning began. Netflix will stream two Christmas Day games globally as part of a three-year deal announced Wednesday as the league unveiled the regular-season schedule. The NFL has played a total of 30 games on Christmas Day since 1971, including three last year. Netflix has 270 million paid memberships in over 190 countries “It is an opportunity for us to expose our game to more people around the world, and that excites us a great deal,” said Jeff Miller, the NFL’s executive vice president of communications, public affairs and policy. Hans Schroeder, the executive vice president of NFL Media, said team owners meeting in March were presented with a plan where teams playing on Christmas Day would have their Week 16 games on Saturday, which would give them the same amount of prep time they normally have in a short week when playing on Sunday and Thursday.