Football Holiday - Boomer Esiason Claims We Shouldn't Be Surprised If We Get NFL Christmas Games On Netflix
This feels inevitable, right? Both parts of this. The first being the NFL trying to take over Christmas and turn it into a football holiday, then the second being of finding another place to put games. Let's talk about the Christmas day games first. It was awesome having games on Christmas, no one really argued that. But what happens when these games fall on a Tuesday/Wednesday? I know they can make it work, but it just makes scheduling weird as hell. You're talking about late in the year, not like they are adjusting anything else. It's just when the teams play before/after that Christmas day game.
The second being moving to Netflix. They are getting into live events and the NFL seems like they are trying to get a piece everywhere. Think about where we watch games already. CBS, FOX on Sunday's. NBC with Sunday Night Football. ESPN/ABC with Monday Night Football. Amazon with Thursday night. We had the playoff game on Peacock along with I believe another regular season game. Now we're going to add Netflix to the list? I don't want to sound old here, but it's a pain in the ass to remember what game is on what channel.
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We know football rules the sports world. They dominate every TV slot during the regular season, then people can't stop talking about the Draft and then we still talk about it with months before training camp. You say anything about an NFL team and people tune in. I don't care about games on Christmas. It's nice having NBA and NFL options and can bounce back and forth. But we gotta figure out where the hell all the games are going to be. I miss the days of just throwing on one of two channels and knowing you're getting the game.
The NFL should do one of two things here though. Either flex games that matter into Christmas so it's the only game on and we can focus on that one game or do what they do for Thanksgiving. Get two teams who play every year no matter what. We know the early game on Thanksgiving is going to be the Lions. I'm a man who likes tradition and there's something comforting about knowing who you're watching on that day. I don't care if it's like the Texans and Seahawks who call dibs on Christmas. Just make it one of those two options. Can't be watching some shitty Panthers-Bucs game or something like that.