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The National Football League occasionally schedules matchups on Christmas, December 25 or Christmas Eve, December 24. Unlike their November holiday counterparts, the Thanksgiving Classic games, Christmas Day and Christmas Eve games in the National Football League are not a regular annual part of the schedule; rather, the NFL only schedules a Christmas game on a night when football would be played anyway, and has only scheduled regular season games on Christmas Day since 1989. Through the 2011 season, there have been 17 Christmas Day contests.

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  • National Football League Christmas games
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  • The National Football League occasionally schedules matchups on Christmas, December 25 or Christmas Eve, December 24. Unlike their November holiday counterparts, the Thanksgiving Classic games, Christmas Day and Christmas Eve games in the National Football League are not a regular annual part of the schedule; rather, the NFL only schedules a Christmas game on a night when football would be played anyway, and has only scheduled regular season games on Christmas Day since 1989. Through the 2011 season, there have been 17 Christmas Day contests.
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  • The National Football League occasionally schedules matchups on Christmas, December 25 or Christmas Eve, December 24. Unlike their November holiday counterparts, the Thanksgiving Classic games, Christmas Day and Christmas Eve games in the National Football League are not a regular annual part of the schedule; rather, the NFL only schedules a Christmas game on a night when football would be played anyway, and has only scheduled regular season games on Christmas Day since 1989. Through the 2011 season, there have been 17 Christmas Day contests. In recent years, the NFL has generally scheduled games on Christmas only if it falls on a day normally used for games (Saturday, Sunday, and Monday); as of yet, it has never scheduled a Christmas or Christmas Eve game on a Thursday, though it has scheduled Christmas games on Friday, which is one of the only times the league ever plays regular-season games on that day of the week due to antitrust restrictions. If Christmas falls on a Sunday, as it did in 1994 and 2005 and will again in 2011, most of the games will be played on the preceding day (with no games that night or the following afternoon in deference to the holiday), and then one game is scheduled for Christmas Night to be broadcast nationally (two games were played in 2005, but only one game will be played in 2011 due to TV contracts). One game is generally held over for the regular Monday night slot and one usually having been played on Thursday. There is currently a window, from 9 P.M. local time Christmas Eve to 5 P.M. Eastern Time Christmas Day, where no games are played. In the event that Monday Night Football lands on Christmas Eve, the two teams that play will be West Coast teams.
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