{"id":60286,"date":"2025-05-18T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/60286\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:30:11","slug":"broncos-to-face-kansas-city-chiefs-in-christmas-day-thursday-night-football-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/60286\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos to face Kansas City Chiefs in Christmas Day \u2018Thursday Night Football\u2019 matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos will face a division rival in a prime-time Christmas showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Denver will travel to play the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday, Dec. 25 at 6:15 p.m. MT on Prime Video, the NFL announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Thursday Night Football&#8221; matchup will represent the fifth time the Broncos have played on Christmas Day in their history, with all five games coming on the road. Denver is 2-2 in Christmas Day matchups.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos&#8217; lone Christmas matchup against the Chiefs came in 2016 in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Denver has won two of its last three games against the Chiefs, including a 38-0 playoff-clinching win at Empower Field at Mile High in Week 18. The Broncos&#8217; last trip to GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium came down to the final snap, as Denver nearly knocked off the undefeated Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos&#8217; matchup was revealed as part of a series of announcements ahead of the complete schedule release. The league has already announced the NFL Kickoff Game and a late-season doubleheader and plans to announce additional games over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Denver&#8217;s complete 2025 schedule will be announced on Wednesday, May 14 at 6 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos will face a division rival in a prime-time Christmas showdown. Denver will travel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,232,231,258,2426,7,6,16133,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-60286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-aric-dilalla","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-schedule-2025","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114529791231840722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}