Thanksgiving is behind us but that’s not stopping the NFL from having a holiday triple-header. Once again, the league is holding three games as millions of Americans celebrate a holiday, this time on Christmas.
The NFL’s triple-header on Christmas is still a new concept for football fans. The league avoided the holiday for decades with one brief exception in 1971 for the divisional round of the playoffs.
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In 1989, the NFL held a Christmas Day game because the holiday fell on a Monday. The Minnesota Vikings beat the Cincinnati Bengals 29-21 to end an 18-year drought on the holiday.
Over the next 30 years, the NFL played a total of 19 games on Christmas. The league traditionally avoided the holiday but that changed in recent times.
The NFL had a Christmas game in 2020 then expanded to multiple games the year after and kept that pace ever since. Here’s a look at the results of every Christmas Day NFL game:
NFL Christmas history, results1971 (Divisional playoffs)
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1989199319941995199920002004
Kansas City Chiefs 31-30 Oakland Raiders
200520062009
San Diego Chargers 42-17 Tennessee Titans
201020112016
Kansas City Chiefs 33-10 Denver Broncos
2017202020212022
Green Bay Packers 26-20 Miami Dolphins
Los Angeles Rams 51-14 Denver Broncos
2023
Baltimore Ravens 33-19 San Francisco 49ers
2024
Kansas City Chiefs 29-10 Pittsburgh Steelers
2025
Minnesota Vikings vs. Detroit Lions, 4:30 p.m. ET, Netflix
Kansas City Chiefs vs. Denver Broncos, 8:15 p.m. ET, Prime Video
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NFL Christmas history: Matchups, results since 1971