Christmas Day is another chance to watch soccer. At least that's what the NFL wants. On Tuesday, the league announced during the owners' meeting that it will not only continue to air on Christmas Day, but also expand.
This has a slate of games like Thanksgiving on Christmas Day, with a succession triple header that airs at 1pm, 4:30pm and 8:20pm, and if that's not annoying enough, two games will air on Netflix, one on Amazon Prime.
Other than NFL, Netflix and Amazon, everyone is only concerned about money printers. brrrrrrrrr Does anyone actually want this?
Here's why I think the Christmas NFL is just stupid and unnecessary:
No. 1: It's Christmas Day
This argument has nothing to do with religion or holiday rudeness. Holiday NFL games are just smoking for both those celebrating Christmas and those who don't.
- If you spend time with your family: If it's another day when soccer gets in the way and your team is playing, you'll need to schedule it around it. It's basically just Thanksgiving 2.0 and steal it that Being a day of the year watching soccer with someone you don't normally do
- If you work, you don't mind the holidays, but because you love double time: There are NFL games where you can't see what's really important as you're in the thickness of a playoff hunt in late December.
- Suck for players and coaches: There are literally dozens of coaches with dozens of NFL players and kids. Over the three games, this means that over 300 families will be affected by the absence of players at home during the holidays. Whether they are religious or not, it affects family time.
No. 2: Christmas is NBA day and perfect
The beautiful thing about the NBA at Christmas is that it's the perfect background viewing. Pop the game, but not Really It's an early basketball season and if you only pay half of your attention, as one game of 82 plays a major role, that's a problem.
With my family, we always play games in the background, and know if people will take a nap in front of the TV or watch the final two minutes.
No. 3: It's okay to take a break from the NFL and we got it
The NFL is obsessed with attacking us in games in every corner. There is no problem with the schedule on Thursday, Sunday and Monday. Even if it's a bit tired, there are Thursdays, Sunday morning international games, Sunday afternoons, Sunday nights, Mondays, and all the holidays that happen to fall between September and February.
You're just getting that time before the league competes against college football for viewers during bowl season, and it'll become even more pronounced when the league adopts a 18-game schedule.
We all love soccer. To be as strange as us and write about it for the life you have to do Really I love soccer, but I don't want holiday football just like I don't want to eat a big pizza myself every night. And I'm a big guy, I love pizza.
No. 4: There's absolutely no free way to smoke
We I have it Everyone should be able to watch soccer on Christmas. The league has already solved how to eliminate as much free dollars as possible, but having it with two different streaming services is absolutely blown away.
For many of us, we are not at home on Christmas Day, but instead at our family homes. Now you need to worry about your parents' streaming setup, or your grandparents or anyone. The best scenario is that you can log in and watch, but if you don't have a smart TV or another way to stream content, you can snuggle around your phone.
I agree, this is awful. what can i do?
there is nothing. I want to look and say, “Don't look, take a photo,” but I won't. Netflix and Amazon have paid millions of people for these games, not even attracting viewers. That's what you have Anything On their platform, their competitors don't have.
So this will become a new normal. Christmas Day Soccer is here and it is here to stay. That doesn't mean I won't be a Grinch about it.
