You’d assume that with Christmas falling on a Wednesday this yr, the NFL wouldn’t hassle taking part in any video games that day, proper? Improper. That is the NFL, they usually’ll invent a brand new day of the week simply to stuff that schedule, too.
Wall Road Journal stories that midweek NFL on Christmas Day is coming your means in 2024. 4 groups that play on Saturday in Week 16 will draw the Christmas straw to start Week 17.
New: After the NFL beforehand stated it wouldn’t play on Christmas this yr as a result of the vacation is on a Wednesday, the league is looking an audible.
Christmas NFL might be again this yr, with video games performed by groups that performed the earlier Saturday. https://t.co/bCUZ8P7hjp
— Andrew Beaton (@andrewlbeaton) March 26, 2024
The NFL already has Sunday, Monday, and Thursday locked down. Week 1 of this season is not going to solely have the standard Thursday opening evening kickoff, however Friday’s first ever recreation in Brazil (Philadelphia Eagles vs. TBD) might be streamed completely on Peacock.
How uncommon is it for the NFL to deliberately schedule a recreation on Wednesday? The final time it was performed for non-COVID 19 causes was 2012, when the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys opened the season a day sooner than anticipated to be able to keep away from battle with the Democratic Nationwide Conference. We’re speaking 3 times in 75 years that the NFL has ever been on a Wednesday for no matter purpose.
Get used to it. That is the brand new NFL. We’ll discover out the common season schedule throughout the subsequent two months.
