After His Deliveries, Santa Will Watch NFL On Netflix

In a first, Netflix, will be live streaming two NFL regular season games on Christmas Day. The kick-off for first game is 1 p.m. (ET) and will feature the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers. The second game will start at 4:30 p.m. (ET) with the Houston Texans hosting the Baltimore Ravens, according to Forbes.

All four AFC teams made te NFL playoffs last season and all are playoff bound this season. With Christmas falling on a Wednesday (a rare day to schedule NFL games), all four teams will be playing on the Saturday prior to Christmas.

Last May, the NFL and Netflix negotiated a three-year deal. As part of the agreement, Netflix will also stream at least one game on Christmas Day in 2025 and 2026. The Wall Street Journal reports for the 2024 doubleheader Netflix, is paying the NFL about $150 million ($75 million per game).

Netflix is going all out to make the Christmas doubleheader a festive event. Prior to the games, Netflix announced Mariah Carey will, in a prerecorded taping, sing her holiday megahit “All I Want For Christmas Is You”. In addition, for the second game, Houston native Beyoncé will be performing live at halftime. (Beyoncé had headlined the halftime show of Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.) In addition, with the Kansas Chiefs playing in the first game, there is always the possibility Taylor Swift will be in attendance. (Last Christmas, Taylor Swift was in attendance at a Chiefs game.)

CBS will be producing both games and the NFL Network will be responsible for pre and postgame coverage as well as halftime. For their coverage Netflix will be relying on familiar NFL names. In the first game, Ian Eagle will be providing play-by-play coverage of the game. Eagle will be joined by fellow CBS announcers Nate Burleson and J.J. Watt for additional commentary. Melanie Collins of CBS and Stacey Dales of the NFL Network will be the sideline reporters.

For the second game, Noah Eagle (son of Ian) of NBC Sports will be the play-by-play announcer. The younger Eagle will be joined in the booth by Kirk Olsen of Fox Sports. The sideline reporters will be Jamie Erdahl and Sam Wyche both from the NFL Network.