Cowboys owner Jerry Jones sounds like he wants Christmas Day to become as synonymous with football as it is with Santa.
Jones appeared on 105.3 The Fan on Tuesday and hinted that the NFL was in it for the long haul when it came to putting games on Christmas Day, no matter what day of the week the holiday falls on.
“Christmas Day is Christmas Day, and it doesn’t wait around for what day it’s on. We want to be there on Christmas Day,” Jones said during the radio interview.
“I would think the future is whatever day it’s on, we’re going to be there on Christmas.”
Christmas Day falls on a Wednesday this season, and jamming the Chiefs, Steelers, Ravens and Texans in on an unusual day for NFL forced the league to have those teams play this past Saturday instead of Sunday.
Next year Christmas is on Thursday, and the next potential headache would come in 2029, when Christmas will be on a Tuesday.
The NFL has had a foothold on Christmas Day since 2020 and they will continue that this year when they play two games that are slated to air on streamer Netflix.
The Chiefs and Steelers will play at 1 p.m. and the Ravens and Texans will face one another at 4:30 p.m., with the second game featuring a special halftime performance by Beyoncé.
The holiday has traditionally been a date that the NBA has dominated as the only professional sports league in North America that is in action.
The NHL shuts down for the holidays annually and the NFL had previously played when Christmas had fallen on a day traditionally that games would be scheduled on.
The NBA has its normal allotment of five games on Christmas Day this year, the slate serving to highlight the league’s top teams and stars.
Wednesday’s slate of NFL games will also be a monumental moment for the league as it will be the first time that its newest broadcast partner will carry games.
Netflix had come under fire for the issues that its stream of the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight had.
