NFL followers are getting a particular Christmas current this 12 months, due to Netflix.

The streaming platform introduced on Sunday, October 20, that two video games might be performed dwell on December 25. The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are set to tackle the Pittsburgh Steelers at 1 p.m. ET whereas the Baltimore Ravens will face off towards the Houston Texans at 4:30 p.m. ET on the vacation.

Within the video shared through YouTube on Sunday, Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce exclaimed, “What a day for some soccer, child!” The clip continued with game-time moments with the groups, set to the monitor “Feliz Navidad.”

“For the primary time ever, the NFL is on Netflix,” the textual content over the video learn. “Huddle up for a brand new custom.”

This Christmas won’t be the one time followers will flip to Netflix to look at the vacation recreation. Per the announcement on Sunday, Netflix will even be streaming not less than one Christmas recreation in 2025 and 2026 as a part of a three-season deal.

“Final 12 months, we determined to take a giant guess on dwell — tapping into large fandoms throughout comedy, actuality TV, sports activities, and extra,” Netflix Chief Content material Officer Bela Bajaria stated within the press launch. “There aren’t any dwell annual occasions, sports activities or in any other case, that examine with the audiences NFL soccer attracts. We’re so excited that the NFL’s Christmas Day video games might be solely on Netflix.”

Hans Schroeder, NFL Government Vice President of Media Distribution, added, “We couldn’t be extra excited to be the primary skilled sports activities league to associate with Netflix to deliver dwell video games to followers world wide. The NFL on Christmas has turn into a practice and to associate with Netflix, a service whose largest day of the 12 months is often this vacation, is the right mixture to develop this occasion globally for NFL followers.”

The NFL kicked off their Yuletide video games in 1971, returning semi-regularly in 1989. Final 12 months’s three Christmas video games had been ranked “among the many prime 25 most-viewed TV packages of 2023” and “drew the best Christmas Day viewership since 1988,” in line with the press launch. The NFL has held 30 Christmas contests thus far.

NFL followers might want to subscribe or log in to a Netflix account to look at dwell on December 25. The video games will even air on broadcast TV in competing staff cities and might be obtainable on US cell gadgets with NFL+.