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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Minnesota Vikings Land Stream-Only Christmas Day Game
The Minnesota Vikings offseason has reached its latest can't-miss stage. 2025 NFL schedule release season is upon us. Wednesday night, at 7 p.m. CDT, we will get all the fun videos and (hopefully) intuitive new ways that teams have come up with to release their official schedule. But two 'away' games our purple will travel for this season have already been announced. In weeks four and five, the Vikings will play overseas vs two AFC North foes, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Vikings This morning, however, we got some more reported insight into the 2025 slate of Minnesota Vikings regular season games. While the double-dip internationally had half the fanbase up in arms, this one is sure to reunite them in celebration. Advertisement Related Headlines Minnesota Vikings hosting 2025 Christmas Day game On Christmas Day, while Vikings fans around the world are sitting down to eat, or open presents or just get away from certain family members, their team will be there for them, either in their living rooms… or even in-person, should you choose to celebrate at U.S. Bank Stadium. According to Jordan Schultz (FOX Sports), the week 17 contest will take place in Minneapolis and it will be broadcast exclusively by Netflix. Even better: Minnesota's Xmas Day road opponent… will be the NFC North rival Detroit Lions. The NFL can't be held down and this is another example of why. They tend to make smart decisions, like this one. Putting the Minnesota Vikings up against the Detroit Lions in the second to last week of the 2025 regular season should have all sorts of playoff implications tied to it. Advertisement Related: Minnesota Vikings Sign Two More Rookies Not only that, but this late-season contest comes on the heels of a 2024 season where the 15-2 Lions bullied the 14-3 Vikings, accounting for two of their three losses, forcing them to play on Wild Card weekend during the second best regular season in franchise history. So far, there have been other schedule release leaks that are more rumor than report, at this point. When those become more official, we will have them for you here at Related Headlines
Indianapolis Star
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
How to buy Kansas City Chiefs vs. Denver Broncos Christmas Day NFL tickets
The official 2025 NFL schedule has been released in its entirety. First we learned that the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles will host the Dallas Cowboys to kick off the regular season, but now we know a bit more about our future Christmas Day plans as well. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will host the Denver Broncos on Dec. 25 in an AFC West showdown. The Chiefs also played on Christmas Day last season, defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers 29-10. Perhaps the NFL has a new holiday tradition, or perhaps it's hoping Taylor Swift will be in attendance, but either way tickets to the Chiefs vs. Broncos game are on sale now. Shop Chiefs vs. Broncos Xmas Day NFL tickets More: The Denver Broncos 2025 NFL schedule is here, how to buy Broncos regular season tickets As of publication, the cheapest available Chiefs vs. Broncos NFL ticket costs $235. The least expensive seats in the lower bowl would run you $418. More: The Kansas City Chiefs 2025 NFL schedule is here, how to buy Chiefs regular season tickets The NFL has announced a Christmas Day triple-header for 2025 featuring some big matchups. Here's the full schedule:
New York Times
14-05-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Why NFL schedule release day illustrates how the league owns the entire year
Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic's weekly sports business cheat sheet. (Want to receive it as an email every Wednesday? Subscribe here.) Name-dropped today: Pete Rose, Howard Katz, Michael Jordan, Cooper Flagg, Pope Leo XIV, Jordon Hudson and Bill Belichick, Claudio Cabrera, Malcolm Glazer and more. Let's go: NFL owns the calendar with schedule release day The No. 1, hands-down, license-to-Harvard Business School case study about how the business of the NFL has subsumed the sports calendar like a gridiron Galactus is tonight: 'schedule release day,' when a mere list of games launches millions of hours of reporting, consumption, podcasts, TV segments, social memes, betting action and more. How big is this day? Five dates that will be vastly more important to the NFL's business than your typical Sunday or Monday in the fall: The throughput? None of these massively anticipated, seismically strategic games are on the NFL's most traditional days of Sunday and Monday. Like today's schedule release day itself, the NFL wants to dominate the full calendar. ESPN launching … ESPN? Plus, the Mavericks' unbelievable fortune Big talkers from the sports business industry: Surge in national TV games: Mavs-Lakers on Xmas Day? Season ticket sales/renewals: Luka who? Sponsorship sales: Who's calling New Balance and AT&T? Jersey sales: I predict Flagg will lead the league. Other current obsessions: TNT's French Open 'Rouge Zone' coverage … Women's World Cup expanding to 48 teams in 2031 (matching the men in 2026) … Lilly Singh: Toronto Tempo 'Chief Hype Officer' … Old-is-new U.S. Soccer kits … Potential contenders to buy the Portland Trailblazers … and, of course, the newly breaking Pete Rose posthumous reinstatement to baseball situation … What happens when the pope backs your team? Pope Leo XIV being a sports fan — Chicago White Sox, Villanova basketball, tennis — has sparked a small frenzy of attention and opportunity. Topps' special release of a pope card shattered records; BreakingT's 'Daaa Pope' T-shirt sales have been 'brisk,' per a company source; and, of course, there's been an impact on sports gambling. Advertisement Arguably the biggest windfall goes to the Sox, which leaves me wondering: How does a team and its ecosystem of merchants even begin to navigate this kind of unexpected situation? My colleague Jon Greenberg has been looking into it — here is his reporting, and here is a key snippet, quoting the owner of a South Side store that specializes in Sox merch, now selling Pope Leo '14' jerseys, which are out-selling player jerseys for them: 'You know, it's one of those things where we have a business that allows us to customize a jersey and put a name and number on it. So why not? Think about it, there's what, over a billion followers in that faith, right? So people want a feel-good story and people want to be the first to do everything. It really wasn't my idea. I cannot take credit for it. I was just inspired, let's put it that way.' Read the whole thing here. Data Point: 38,423 The number of fans in Denver who came out last Saturday night to watch the Colorado Rockies get pummeled 21-0 by the San Diego Padres. Despite fielding a team this season that will challenge for Worst Team Ever, the Rockies are squarely in the middle of MLB attendance rankings. That is a testament to the incredible experience at Coors Field, best described by my colleague Cody Stavenhagen this way: 'If Wrigley Field exists as a timeless neighborhood bar, Coors Field thrives as a tranquil biergarten.' Will fans keep coming out despite the losing product? Quote of the Week 'She doesn't have anything to do with UNC football.' — Bill Belichick, on girlfriend Jordon Hudson, in an interview at an ACC event. Certainly less inflammatory than Hudson's original 'We're not talking about that.' Related: Hudson competed in Miss Maine USA last weekend and finished 'second runner-up' (that's third place, for non-pageant normies). My colleague Steve Buckley was on the scene. Advertisement What to Watch: 'Welcome to Wrexham' Premiering this week, Season 4 extends the most dramatic made-for-TV sports spectacle in the world — not-so-spoiler alert! — with Wrexham's third straight season ending in promotion. My colleague Richard Sutcliffe has the most essential review you'll find anywhere. This Week in Branding U.K. women's pro soccer organizing corporation 'Women's Professional Leagues Limited' is now 'Women's Super League Football,' a vast improvement. But the league needs more than spangle, says my colleague Megan Feringa. Plus! Only because it juuust missed our send time last Wednesday: Utah picks 'Mammoth': From name to logo to catchphrase ('Tusks up!'), phenomenal choices. Dan's branding grade: A-. Beat Dan in Connections Couldn't even finish this week. This is YOUR WEEK to top me! Play here. Great business-adjacent reads for your downtime or commute: 'The double standards are real. The bias is real. But accountability matters, too. And invoking a real stereotype to excuse behavior cheapens the experience for those of us who must carry that stereotype with us every day, in spaces that won't give us the benefit of the doubt.' — my colleague Claudio Cabrera, in a must-read essay on Draymond Green and the Warriors star's rant on the 'angry Black man' trope last week. Three more reads worth your time: Understanding the Glazers. Our multi-part series on the pioneering, oft-frustrating Manchester United ownership of the Glazer family. Back next Wednesday! This week's challenge: Forward this to three friends or colleagues with your rec to sign up. (And signing up is totally free, as are all The Athletic's other newsletters, too.)
