Because the NFL continues its spring conferences in Orlando, the large tales proceed to be adjustments being made to the league’s enjoying guidelines and bylaws for 2024.
However different issues are additionally into consideration. One in all them was reported by the Wall Avenue Journal’s Andrew Beaton: although Christmas Day will fall on a Wednesday in 2024 — and after beforehand saying it wouldn’t accomplish that — the league intends to schedule regular-season video games on Christmas.
Talking to reporters on Tuesday, Hans Schroeder — the league’s govt vice chairman for media distribution — introduced there will likely be two video games on Christmas, per NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport.
And it’s attainable the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs may very well be enjoying in certainly one of them.
New: After the NFL beforehand mentioned it wouldn’t play on Christmas this yr as a result of the vacation is on a Wednesday, the league is asking an audible.
Christmas NFL will likely 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
There have been a complete of 40 NFL video games which have been performed on a Wednesday. Virtually all of them had been earlier than 1940. However there have been solely two Wednesday video games because the 1948 season.
The primary was in 2012 when the season opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the defending champion New York Giants was moved again someday in order that NBC may be a part of America’s different tv networks in masking the ultimate evening of a nationwide political conference.
The opposite was when the Pittsburgh Steelers hosted the Baltimore Ravens through the 2020 season. That recreation was rescheduled because the league fought its means by a season sophisticated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2024, the league intends to make these Wednesday video games work by having the groups scheduled to play on the vacation have their earlier video games on Saturday, December 21. So enjoying on Wednesday will likely be just like a Thursday matchup that follows a Sunday recreation.
As you’ll keep in mind, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs had been certainly one of six groups that performed on Christmas Day final season — which in 2023, fell on a Monday. For the reason that workforce has now received back-to-back championships and continues to have the face of the league enjoying at quarterback (and never for nothing, would possibly nonetheless have the face of common music watching every recreation from a collection), it stands to motive that within the coming season, Kansas Metropolis will once more be featured in a big share of the league’s most seen video games. Will certainly one of them be on Christmas Day?
For the reason that workforce simply performed on Christmas… possibly not. However we nonetheless wouldn’t guess towards it.
