The 2025 NFL Christmas schedule concludes with a "Thursday Night Football" AFC West battle of teams in a surprising position as the Kansas City Chiefs host the Denver Broncos. The Broncos (12-3) lead the entire AFC and are chasing a top seed and a bye in the NFL playoffs.

Former UCF Knights running back RJ Harvey joined elite company during a game on Christmas Day between his Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs. Harvey ran

Merry Christmas, Broncos Country! It wasn't pretty, but the Denver Broncos defeated theKansas City Chiefs 20-13 on Thursday Night Football in Week 17, moving one step closer towar

In its first full Christmas slate (2024), Netflix recorded breakthrough streaming results: Nielsen and the NFL reported an unduplicated U.S. audience of roughly 65 million across the doubleheader and per-game Average Minute Audience (AMA) figures between 24 and 27 million, figures that set streaming records for regular-season NFL games.

While those are the playoff implications for this Christmas Day slate, one of the other storylines will be the onslaught of injuries at quarterback for an array of these teams suiting up on Thursday. The Commanders, Vikings and Chiefs will all be starting backups, which sort of feels like a lump of coal, but we'll make do.

NFL fans don't think Al Michaels gets excited enough. The legendary play-by-play man, now with Amazon Prime Video, got to call a game-winning touchdown with less than two minutes to play on Christmas night when the Denver Broncos ' Bo Nix threw to RJ Harvey for a touchdown.

Broncos head coach Sean Payton praised the Chiefs and Andy Reid after Denver's 20-13 Christmas Day win over Kansas City.