When did the nfl start playing on christmas day?
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When did the nfl first start playing on christmas day? When did the nfl resume playing on christmas day?
1971 Christmas Day 1971
1989
National Football League Christmas games
nfl start playing on christmas day
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Prior to that, the last <b>Christmas Eve</b> Friday game was <b>played in</b> 1999 ... was 
<b>played (on Christmas Day</b>, Monday, there was an <b>NFL</b> Network ... Diego 
Chargers, so that the game could <b>start</b> at 5:00 PM local time. Games held by the National Basketball Association (NBA) on <b>Christmas Day</b>, 
December 25, have been an annual tradition since the league&#39;s second season 
in 1947. Currently, five games are <b>played on Christmas</b>. Unlike the National 
Football League (<b>NFL</b>)&#39;s traditional <b>Thanksgiving</b> Day ... Since then, the NBA has 
<b>played</b> games every year on <b>Christmas Day</b> except&nbsp;... Since its inception in 1920, the National Football League has <b>played</b> games on 
<b>Thanksgiving</b> ... League (AFL) also <b>played Thanksgiving</b> Day games during this 
decade. The Dallas Cowboys <b>started playing</b> their traditional series in 1966. The 2020 <b>NFL</b> season will be the 101st season of the National Football League (
<b>NFL</b>). The season will <b>begin</b> on September 10, 2020, with the <b>NFL</b> Kickoff Game, 
... <b>NFL</b> London Games: Four games will be <b>played in</b> London, two of them at ... 
<b>Christmas</b>: <b>Christmas Eve</b> and <b>Christmas Day</b> will fall on Thursday and Friday,&nbsp;... The television rights to broadcast National Football League (<b>NFL</b>) games are the 
most lucrative ... In 2017, the <b>NFL</b> games attracted the top three rates for a 30-
second ... <b>Starting</b> in 2012, the third game is an NBC game. ... Rams early in the 
2012 season; the Raiders <b>played</b> at the Dallas Cowboys on <b>Thanksgiving</b> in 
2013. The history of the National Football League on television documents the long 
history of the ... When ESPN first <b>started</b> televising <b>NFL</b> games in 1987, it only 
broadcast ... (This stipulation is no longer strictly enforced; in 2017, two of the 
teams that <b>played on Thanksgiving</b> faced off in the next week&#39;s Thursday Night 
game.)&nbsp;... The <b>NFL</b> Color Rush was a promotion done in conjunction with the National 
Football League ... Out of necessity, <b>starting</b> with the 1957 <b>NFL</b> season, all teams 
were required to have both a team colored jersey ... none of the three teams 
having other Thursday night games or (in the Steelers case) <b>playing on</b> 
<b>Christmas Day</b>. The 1994 <b>NFL</b> season was the 75th regular season of the National Football 
League. To honor ... Start date, December 31, 1994 ... The Seattle Seahawks 
<b>played</b> their first three regular season home games at Husky ... Every <b>NFL</b> 
season afterwards with <b>Christmas Day</b> on a Sunday has followed this same 
scheduling format. NBC Sunday Night Football (abbreviated as SNF) is a weekly television 
broadcast of National ... <b>In</b> 2015, the <b>NFL</b> once again scheduled the Packers to 
<b>play</b> on SNF, this time against the Broncos at ... A half-hour version of Football 
Night <b>in</b> America aired before the <b>Christmas</b> game and the two &quot;Wild Card 
Saturday&quot; games. The 2015 <b>NFL</b> season was the 96th season in the history of the National Football 
League (<b>NFL</b>) ... Prior to the <b>start</b> of the regular season, each team <b>played</b> at least 
four exhibition games. ... The league has traditionally avoided <b>playing</b> night 
games on <b>Christmas Eve</b> and, in years past, moved games that would usually 
<b>play</b>&nbsp;...
1971
National Football League Christmas games