The National Football League is unquestionably the behemoth of North American sports leagues in terms of every metric possible. It bests all other leagues in popularity, revenue, ratings, watercooler discussion, social media chatter, so on and so forth.
The NFL also has shown that it won’t back down to other sports leagues, and it’s even willing to go toe-to-toe with these leagues. A current example includes the NFL infringing upon the NBA’s footprint on Christmas Day by now scheduling games even when the holiday doesn’t fall on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. Christmas Day will be on a Wednesday during the 2024 NFL season, and the just-released NFL schedule has two games on Dec. 25, marking just the third time since 1948 that an NFL game will be played on a Wednesday.
