When it was announced this week that the Kansas City Chiefs are scheduled to face the Denver Broncos on Christmas Day this year, it was another reminder that the NFL is king, even when it comes to a longstanding NBA tradition.
For much of its history, the NFL typically did not hold games on Christmas, or would usually only do so when Christmas fell on a standard football day, like a Sunday. Even then, the NFL usually pushed most of their games back to another day. For example, Christmas fell on a Sunday in both 2011 and 2016, and the NFL held no more than two games on those Christmases.
