Why the Kansas City Chiefs Might Not Become the NFL's 'Christmas Day Team'
The Kansas City Chiefs played an exciting NFL game on Christmas Day in 2024, which aired on Netflix.
With the NFL looking to schedule games on Christmas after hosting holiday games for the past 5 seasons, the Chiefs actually volunteered to play on December 25, 2025 again.
But, it doesn’t sound like it will definitely happen.
Keep reading to find out more…
“For a team like the Chiefs to volunteer for Christmas while they’re busy winning every other Super Bowl or whatever it is, and their tight end is dating the biggest pop star on the planet, sure, the league office would love for the Chiefs to host every year, thanks for volunteering, boys,” Mike North, NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning, said on the “It’s Always Gameday in Buffalo” podcast. “I’m not sure that’s gonna become a tradition quite the way Thanksgiving is.” On Thanksgiving, there’s always two teams that play: the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys. Mike then shared he’s not sure they’ll have a team play every Christmas in the same way.
He continued, “Think about what it took for that [Thanksgiving] tradition, right? The Lions since the ‘30s, the Cowboys since the ‘60s. We didn’t commit to a third site on Thanksgiving when we brought that back about 20 years ago. We’ve rotated that around. I imagine we’re gonna keep rotating Christmas around too.”
He continued, “I know the Chiefs are raising their hands supposedly, but that’s a lot to ask your fans to come out every year on Christmas. Certainly, while you’re good and you’re winning AFC West titles and fighting for Super Bowl, it’s an easy give. Five years from now, after Patrick Mahomes retires and they’re not the perennial champion and in every AFC Championship game, I’m not sure we’d want to be married to a site. There are other teams that have raised their hands to become permanent hosts of things like Black Friday or Christmas, thus far we’ve avoided to committing to something like that.”
“Never say never,” he added. “Let’s see what the next few years bring. But I don’t think we’re, today, gonna commit to a permanent third host for Thanksgiving, a permanent host for Black Friday or a permanent host for Christmas.”