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HuffPost
Type of site
News and opinion
Available in
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, German, Arabic, Portuguese, Korean, Greek
Founded
May 9, 2005 (2005-05-09)
Created by
Andrew Breitbart
Arianna Huffington
Kenneth Lerer
Jonah Peretti
Editor
Lydia Polgreen
Parent
Verizon Communications via Oath Inc.
Slogan(s)
Inform, Inspire, Entertain, Empower
Website
huffpost.com
Alexa rank
253 (August 20, 2017[update])[1]
Commercial
Yes
Registration
Optional
Launched
May 9, 2005; 12 years ago (2005-05-09)
Current status
Active
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo)[2] is a politically liberal[3] American news and opinion website and blog that now has both localized and international editions. Founded by Andrew Breitbart, Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti.[4][5] The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news.
The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, as a liberal[6] commentary outlet/blog and an alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report, and it continues to maintain a politically liberal stance.[7] On February 7, 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for US$315 million, making Arianna Huffington editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group.[8][9]
In July 2012, The Huffington Post was ranked No. 1 on the 15 Most Popular Political Sites list by eBizMBA Rank, which bases its list on each site's Alexa Global Traffic Rank and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast.[10] In 2012, The Huffington Post became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.[11]
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Local editions
1.2 International editions
1.3 Vertical organization
2 Contributors
3 Business affairs
3.1 Investment
3.2 Labor disputes
4 Content and coverage
4.1 Alternative medicine and anti-vaccination controversy
4.2 Political stance
5 Awards
6 References
7 External links
History[edit]
The Huffington Post was founded by Andrew Breitbart, Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti on May 9, 2005.[12][13] It has an active community, with over one million comments made on the site each month.
Prior to The Huffington Post, Huffington hosted the website Ariannaonline.com. Her first foray into the Internet was the website Resignation.com, which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was a rallying place for conservatives opposing Clinton.[14][15][16]
In August 2016, Arianna Huffington stepped down from her longtime role as editor-in-chief to pursue other ventures, and in December of that year was officially succeeded by Lydia Polgreen.[17]
In April 2017, Polgreen announced the company would rebrand, changing its name to HuffPost and unveiling significant changes to the design of its website and logo.[18][19][20] Polgreen also stated that the redesign would be accompanied by changes in the site's content and reporting.[21]
Local editions[edit]
In approximately June 2007, the site launched its first local version, HuffPost Chicago.[22] In June 2009, HuffPost New York[23] was launched, followed shortly by HuffPost Denver[24] which launched on September 15, 2009,[25] and HuffPost Los Angeles[26] which launched on December 2, 2009.[27] In 2011, three new regional editions were launched: HuffPost San Francisco on July 12,[28] HuffPost Detroit,[29] on November 17,[30] and HuffPost Miami in November.[31] HuffPost Hawaii was launched in collaboration with the online investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat on September 4, 2013.[32]
International editions[edit]
The Huffington Post launched its first international edition, HuffPost Canada, on May 26, 2011.[33] On July 6 of the same year, the Huffington Post UK launched its UK edition.[34] On January 23, 2012, Huffington, in partnership with Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes, launched Le Huffington Post, and the launch of French-language edition is the first in a non-English speaking country.[35] On February 8, another French language edition was launched in the Canadian province of Quebec.[36] On May Day, a U.S.-based Spanish-language edition was launched under the name HuffPost Voces, replacing AOL's Hispanic news platform, AOL Latino.[37] The following month an edition for Spain was announced, as was one for Germany.[38] On September 24, an Italian edition, L'Huffington Post, was launched, directed by journalist Lucia Annunziata in collaboration with the media company Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso.[39] On May 6, 2013, an edition for Japan was launched with the collaboration of The Asahi Shimbun, the first edition in an Asian country.[40] With the launch of Al Huffington Post, there is a third francophone edition, this time for the Maghreb area.[41] On October 10, Munich-based Huffington Post Deutschland has been put online in cooperation with the liberal-conservative magazine Focus, covering German-speaking Europe.[42] In January 2014, Arianna Huffington and Nicolas Berggruen announced the launch of the WorldPost, created in partnership with the Berggruen Institute.[43] Its contributors have included former British prime minister Tony Blair, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, novelist Jonathan Franzen and musician Yo-Yo Ma. On January 29, 2014, the Brazilian version was launched as Brasil Post, in partnership with Abril Group, the first in Latin America.[44] In September 2014, The Huffington Post announced they will launch in Greece, India, and introduce HuffPost Arabi, an Arabic version of the website.[45][46] On August 18, 2015, HuffPost Australia was launched.[47] The Huffington Post planned to launch a Chinese version in 2015.[48] Due to strict media controls, the content of Chinese version would not include serious news report, only entertainment and lifestyle.[49] On November 21, 2016, HuffPost South Africa was launched, the brand’s first sub-Saharan edition.[50] In April 2017, HuffPost South Africa was directed by the press ombud to apologise unreservedly for publishing and later defending a column calling for disenfranchisement of white men which was declared malicious, inaccurate and discriminatory hate speech.[51]
Vertical organization[edit]
In 2011, after its purchase by AOL, The Huffington Post subsumed many of AOL's Voices properties (including AOL Black Voices, which had originally independently established in 1995 as Blackvoices.com, and AOL Latino). The Voices brand was expanded in September 2011 with the launch of Gay Voices, a vertical dedicated to LGBT-relevant articles. Other established sections, such as Impact (launched in 2010 as a partnership between Huffington Post and Causecast),[52][53] Women, Teen, College, Religion, and the Spanish-language Voces (en español) are also sorted under the Voices meta-vertical.
By late 2013, however, The Huffington Post was taking steps to operate as more of a "stand-alone business" within AOL, taking control of more of its own business and advertising operations, and directing more effort towards securing "premium advertising".[54]
Contributors[edit]
In addition to columns by Arianna Huffington and a group of contributors such as John Conyers, Bernie Sanders, Harry Shearer, Leonard Kim, Jeff Pollack, and Roy Sekoff, The Huffington Post has many bloggers—from politicians and celebrities to academics and policy experts—who contribute on a wide range of topics. Specialist contributors include spiritual author Craig Taro Gold[55] and health expert Jeff Halevy.[56]
Contributors to the site are unpaid, a fact which has engendered some public controversy.[57]
Celebrities are allowed to post blogs on the site, and a number have opted to do so over the years. In many cases, such as that of Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, content is cross-posted among multiple sites.[58]
The site also publishes columns by specialists in fields such as Cenk Uygur and Anand Reddi on global health issues, Alice Waters on food, Taryn Hillin who is the Associate Editor of Weddings and Post Divorce, Harold Katz on dental health, Suzie Heumann on sex, Diane Ravitch on education, Frances Beinecke and Phil Radford on climate change and the environment, Jacob M. Appel on ethics, Howard Steven Friedman on statistics and politics, Auren Hoffman on business and politics, Jon LaPook on medicine, Cara Santa Maria on science, Nancy Rappaport on child psychiatry, and Iris Krasnow on marriage. Colon cancer survivor and awareness advocate Eric Ehrmann, one of the original contributors to Rolling Stone in 1968, has been part of HuffPo's group of bloggers since 2009, posting independent political commentary on The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post UK, Le Huffington Post, El Huffington Post, and Al Huffington Post Maghreb. It publishes scoops of current news stories and links to selected prominent news stories.[59] Author and former Hollywood story analyst Julie Gray writes for the Post.[60] Michal Shapiro, former Director of Music Videos, LINK TV, has covered "world music" for the "Post" since April 11, 2010.[61]
On February 17, 2016, it was announced that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, would guest edit a series of articles as part of a collaboration designed to improve and better understand mental health issues affecting young people.[62]
On April 9, 2016, American Sleep Association (ASA) and The Huffington Post announced a partnership to increase awareness about the importance of sleep and the dangers of sleep disorders. Through the collaboration, ASA shared information and resources relating to sleep information between the two platforms.[63]
The Huffington Post's OffTheBus is an online news organization using amateur journalists that is a collaboration between The Huffington Post, New York University (NYU), and Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.Net.[64][65] The Huffington Post's FundRace is a website that tracks contributions to the presidential campaigns and includes a mapping feature that shows contributions broken down by city, neighborhood, and block.[66]
Business affairs[edit]
Investment[edit]
In August 2006, The Huffington Post announced that SoftBank Capital would invest US$5 million in the site, which had grown in popularity in only a year, to help expand it.[67] Plans included hiring more staff to update the site 24 hours a day, hiring in-house reporters and a multimedia team to make video reports. Alan Patricof's Greycroft Partners also invested. The news marked the site's "first round of venture capital funding".[68]
The site has now invested in video blogging, with many of the site contributors contributing via video, capturing clips in the media and posting them on the site.
In November 2008, The Huffington Post completed US$15 million fundraising from investors to finance expansion, including more journalism and the provision of local news across the United States.[69]
On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire The Huffington Post for US$315 million.[57] As part of the deal, Arianna Huffington became president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, including The Huffington Post and existing AOL properties Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater (now HuffPost Celebrity), AOL Music, AOL Latino (now HuffPost Voices), AutoBlog, Patch, and StyleList.[9]
Labor disputes[edit]
In February 2011, Visual Art Source, which had been cross-posting material from its website, went on strike against The Huffington Post.[70] In March 2011, the strike and the call to boycott The Huffington Post was joined and endorsed by the National Writers Union (NWU) and the Newspaper Guild (TNG)[71] The boycott was dropped in October 2011.[72]
In April 2011, The Huffington Post was targeted with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed in United States District Court in New York by Jonathan Tasini on behalf of thousands of uncompensated bloggers.[73] The suit was dismissed with prejudice on March 30, 2012, by the court, holding that the bloggers had volunteered their services, their compensation being publication.[74]
Wil Wheaton refused to allow his work to be reused for free on the site, commenting "the company can absolutely afford to pay contributors. The fact that it doesn't, and can get away with it, is distressing to me."[75]
Content and coverage[edit]
HuffPost is a politically liberal[3][76][77][78] American news and opinion website that has both localized and international editions founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, and Andrew Breitbart,[79][80] featuring columnists.[81] The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news.
It launched on May 9, 2005 as The Huffington Post[82] as an overtly liberal-left[83][76][77][84] commentary outlet/blog and alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report,[85][86][87] and it continues to maintain a politically liberal stance.[76][77][88]
Alternative medicine and anti-vaccination controversy[edit]
The Huffington Post has been criticized by several science bloggers and online news sources for including articles by supporters of alternative medicine and anti-vaccine activists.[89][90]
Steven Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society, criticized The Huffington Post for allowing homeopathy proponent Dana Ullman to have a blog there:
Dana Ullman, a notorious homeopathy apologist, actually has a regular blog over at HuffPo. For those of us who follow such things, the start of his blog there marked the point of no return for the Huffington Post – clearly the editors had decided to go the path of Saruman and "abandon reason for madness." They gave up any pretense of caring about scientific integrity and became a rag of pseudoscience.[91]
Political stance[edit]
Commenting in 2012 on increased conservative engagement on the website despite its reputation as a liberal news source, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington stated that her website is "increasingly seen" as an Internet newspaper that is "not positioned ideologically in terms of how we cover the news."[92] According to Michael Steel, press secretary for Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, Republican aides "engage with liberal websites like The Huffington Post [anyway, if for] no other reason than [because] they drive a lot of cable coverage."[92] Jon Bekken, journalism professor at Suffolk University, has cited The Huffington Post as an example of an "advocacy newspaper".[93] The Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto mockingly calls it the Puffington Host, and Rush Limbaugh frequently refers to it as the Huffing and Puffington Post.[94]
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Huffington Post regularly appended an editor's note to the end of stories about candidate Donald Trump, reading: "Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims—1.6 billion members of an entire religion—from entering the U.S." After Trump was elected on November 8, 2016, the Huffington Post ended this practice.[95]
Awards[edit]
In 2012, The Huffington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting for senior military correspondent David Wood's 10-part series about wounded veterans, Beyond the Battlefield.[96][97]
The Huffington Post is 2010 People's Voice Winner in the 14th Webby Awards[98] and is the Winner in Lead411's New York City Hot 125.[99] The Huffington Post lost the 2010 Webby Award jury prize for Best Political Blog to Truthdig.[100]
The Huffington Post received a Peabody Award in 2010 for "Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation."[101]
The Huffington Post was named second among the 25 Best Blogs of 2009 by Time.[102]
The Huffington Post won the 2006 and 2007 Webby Awards for Best Politics Blog.
The Huffington Post contributor Bennet Kelley was awarded the Los Angeles Press Club's 2007 Southern California Journalism Award for Online Commentary[103] for political commentary published on the site.[104]
The Huffington Post is ranked the most powerful blog in the world by The Observer.[105]
The Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington was named in 2009 as number 12 in Forbes' first ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media.[106] The same year, she was ranked as number 42 in The Guardian's Top 100 in Media List.[107]
In 2015, The Huffington Post was nominated for the Responsible Media of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards.[108]
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Christmas Day and Christmas Eve games in the National Football League are an occasional part of the league's schedule. In contrast to Thanksgiving Day games, however, they are not an annual occurrence; as of 2017, there have been just 19 Christmas Day games in the NFL's history.
After the NFL held two Divisional Playoff games on Christmas Day 1971, the league avoided any more games on Christmas Day until 1989. Since then, the NFL has held occasional games on Christmas Day in some years, as part of week 16 or 17 of the regular season. Two games were played each Christmas Day from 2004 to 2006 and then from 2016 to 2017.
In recent years, the NFL has scheduled games on Christmas Day only if it falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. The NFL scheduled one Friday Christmas game, in 2009, a very rare occasion for an NFL game to be played on a Friday (because Christmas falls outside the window set in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 that prohibits pro football telecasts on those days for most of the regular season, it is one of the few times of the year when the league plays on a Friday or Saturday). If Christmas falls on a Sunday, most games are moved to Saturday, Christmas Eve, and then one or two games are scheduled for Christmas Night to be broadcast nationally. One game is generally held over for the regular Monday night slot. This situation occurred in 2016 and will occur again in 2022. In rare cases when a game must be played on the evening of Christmas Eve, the game is typically hosted on the West Coast of the United States so that the game takes place in the late afternoon there, and likewise, games played in the afternoon on Christmas Day are hosted in either the Eastern or Central time zones so that they do not start before 4 p.m. local time. This provides a window of roughly 20 hours of local time, spanning late Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, in which the league will not play.
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1 History
1.1 Early years
1.2 1971 Divisional Playoffs
1.3 Avoiding Christmas
1.4 Regular season contests arrive on Christmas
1.5 2011 and beyond
2 All-time results
2.1 1971 playoff games
2.2 Regular season
2.3 Christmas Day standings
3 Christmas Eve
4 References
History[edit]
Early years[edit]
In the earliest days of professional football, the season typically ended near the end of November (marquee games were often played on Thanksgiving) or in the first week of December, depending on the team; exhibition games would then be held in the winter. Once league schedules were standardized in the 1930s, the NFL Championship Game was typically held in mid-December. The 1943 NFL Championship Game, played on December 26 of that year because of scheduling complications brought on by World War II, was the first regulation NFL game to be played on or after December 25.
From 1943 until the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger, the NFL regular season usually ended in mid-December, with the NFL Championship Game being held on the Sunday two weeks later. If that Sunday fell on Christmas Day December 25, the league preferred to move it to the following day, Monday, December 26; this rescheduling occurred for both the 1955 and the 1960 championship games.
The American Football League compensated differently: the 1960 championship game was moved back by a full week, being played on New Year's Day 1961, with Christmas Sunday being an off-week. (The NFL's 1966 championship game was also held on Sunday, January 1, 1967, two weeks after the end of the regular season.) New Year's Day was an available day since the college bowl games were pushed forward to Monday, January 2 in those seasons. The AFL had scheduled the 1966 championship game for Monday afternoon December 26, but when the two leagues agreed to merge in 1970 and play a "World Championship game" starting with the 1966 season, the AFL game was moved back to Sunday, January 1.
1971 Divisional Playoffs[edit]
The first NFL games actually played on December 25 came after the merger, during the 1971–72 NFL playoffs. The first two games of the Divisional Playoff Round were held on Christmas Day; the first of these was between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings, while the second of the two contests played that afternoon, the Miami Dolphins versus the Kansas City Chiefs, wound up being the longest game in NFL history.[1] Because of the length of the latter game, the NFL received numerous complaints, reportedly due to the fact that it caused havoc with Christmas dinners around the nation. The league also came under fire from some quarters for intruding on a traditional religious and family holiday, and a Kansas state legislator proposed a bill to ban the scheduling of future games on December 25.[2][3] As a result, the NFL decided to not schedule any Christmas Day games for the next 17 seasons.
Avoiding Christmas[edit]
This required considerable effort during those years in which Christmas fell on a Saturday or a Sunday, given that ordinarily those days would be days in which NFL playoff games were to be held.
In 1976, the NFL opened its regular season a week earlier than would have ordinarily been the case (September 12, the second Sunday of the month, rather than the customary third Sunday) so that the Divisional Playoffs could be held on December 18 and December 19 instead of December 25 and December 26, and thus no games would be needed on Saturday, December 25.
In 1977, with Christmas falling on a Sunday, the Divisional Playoff Games were held around the holiday, with an AFC doubleheader on Saturday, December 24, and an NFC doubleheader on Monday, December 26. This was done so that one team did not have a two-day rest advantage over the other for the Conference Championship games (the NFL only allowed one-day rest advantages). This scheduling resulted in most of the country missing the majority of the 1st quarter of the Pittsburgh-at-Denver game telecast (beginning at 4:00 PM EST), since the early AFC game that Saturday (Oakland-at-Baltimore, beginning at 12:30 PM EST) went into double overtime; with an ordinary schedule of one game from each conference, viewers would have had the option of switching channels (or using a VCR) but in this case NBC simply stayed with Raiders-Colts (except in the Pittsburgh and Denver markets) and had to overlap its telecasts.
The NFL continued to avoid Christmas even after it started to extend the length of the regular season and the playoffs. The league expanded to a 16-game regular season and a 10-team playoff tournament in 1978, but it was not until 1982 that the regular season ended after Christmas. It was originally scheduled to end on Sunday, December 26 of that year, but the regular season was extended to Sunday, January 2, 1983 after the 57-day NFL players' strike reduced the season from 16 games to 9; the NFL compensated by extending the regular season one week and eliminating the off week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl.
In 1983 and again in 1988, the NFL split the first round Wild Card Playoffs between Saturday, December 24 and Monday, December 26 to avoid a Christmas game.
Had the United States Football League survived to play its autumn 1986 season, it would have featured the first major professional football games to be played in the regular season on Christmas; the USFL planned a complete set of four games for Christmas Day.[4] The USFL suspended operations prior to the 1986 season and the games were never played.
Regular season contests arrive on Christmas[edit]
Finally, in 1989, the NFL tried another Christmas Day game, the Cincinnati Bengals at the Minnesota Vikings, but it was a 9 p.m. ET ABC Monday Night Football contest, thereby avoiding interfering with family dinners. The NFL pushed the regular season back one week in 1989 as a one-off experiment, meaning Christmas would fall during the last week of the regular season instead of the first round of the playoffs. Starting with the following season, the league added a bye week, making Christmas permanently fall during the regular season. In the years since, the NFL has played an occasional late-afternoon or night game on the holiday, but there has not been a Christmas Day game starting earlier than 4:30 p.m. ET since 1971.
In 1993, NBC aired a Christmas game for the first time since 1971, when the Houston Oilers visited the San Francisco 49ers, with a kickoff time of 5 PM Eastern/2 PM Pacific.
ESPN aired a Christmas game for the first time ever on December 25, 1994, when the Detroit Lions visited the Dolphins.
CBS got its first Christmas game since 1971 in 1999, when the Denver Broncos visited the Lions.
Fox aired a Christmas game for the first and (to date) only time in 2005, when the Chicago Bears visited their archrivals the Green Bay Packers.
The NFL Network aired its first Christmas game in 2009, when the San Diego Chargers visited the Titans.
2011 and beyond[edit]
The first Christmas game under the current television contracts was held on Sunday, December 25, 2011. According to league policy, most of the weekend's games were moved to Christmas Eve while one game was set aside for NBC Sunday Night Football. That game was played between the Bears and Packers at Lambeau Field – the second time that these two teams played at that venue on Christmas. Unlike 2005, there was not a second Christmas Day game, due to changes in the NFL's television contracts since the last time Christmas landed on a Sunday during that year. Christmas again fell on a Sunday in 2016. As in previous years, the majority of games were moved to Christmas Eve and Sunday Night Football got one game, along with a special Sunday afternoon edition of Thursday Night Football exclusive to NFL Network.[5]
Under current TV contracts, the only other time two games would be played on Christmas would be when it falls on a Monday (NBC's game is moved from Sunday during that weekend which is not included in flexible scheduling, while ESPN would air its regular Monday night game as well), as it did in 2006 and 2017. Christmas next arrives on a Monday in 2023; the TV rights will be determined in the next contract.[6]
In the event that Christmas falls on a Thursday, as it did in 2014 (it will not do so again until 2025), no Thursday Night Football will be played that week to avoid giving a team a potential three-day rest advantage going into the first round of the playoffs (if Christmas lands on a Thursday, it ends up in Week 17, the last week of the regular season, instead of the usual week 16). As is the standard for week 17, all 32 teams will play their final regular season game on Sunday, December 28.
Only one other team has hosted the same team twice on Christmas over the years – the Arizona Cardinals hosted the Dallas Cowboys on ABC's Monday Night Football in 1995, and on the NFL Network in 2010. However, in this case, each game was played at a different venue – the 1995 game at Sun Devil Stadium (where the Cowboys won Super Bowl XXX a month later), and the 2010 game at University of Phoenix Stadium.
All-time results[edit]
1971 playoff games[edit]
Season
Visiting Team
Score
Home Team
TV
1971 Dallas Cowboys 20–12 Minnesota Vikings CBS
Miami Dolphins 27–24 (2OT) Kansas City Chiefs NBC
Regular season[edit]
Season
Visiting Team
Score
Home Team
TV
1989 Cincinnati Bengals 21–29 Minnesota Vikings ABC
1993 Houston Oilers 10–7 San Francisco 49ers NBC
1994 Detroit Lions 20–27 Miami Dolphins ESPN
1995 Dallas Cowboys 37–13 Arizona Cardinals ABC
1999 Denver Broncos 17–7 Detroit Lions CBS
2000 Dallas Cowboys 0–31 Tennessee Titans ABC
2004 Oakland Raiders 30–31 Kansas City Chiefs CBS
Denver Broncos 37–16 Tennessee Titans ESPN
2005 Chicago Bears 24–17 Green Bay Packers Fox
Minnesota Vikings 23–30 Baltimore Ravens ESPN
2006 Philadelphia Eagles 23–7 Dallas Cowboys NBC
New York Jets 13–10 Miami Dolphins ESPN
2009 San Diego Chargers 42–17 Tennessee Titans NFL Network
2010 Dallas Cowboys 26–27 Arizona Cardinals NFL Network
2011 Chicago Bears 21–35 Green Bay Packers NBC
2016 Baltimore Ravens 27–31 Pittsburgh Steelers NFL Network
Denver Broncos 10–33 Kansas City Chiefs NBC
2017 Pittsburgh Steelers 34–6 Houston Texans NBC/NFL Network
Oakland Raiders 10–19 Philadelphia Eagles ESPN
Christmas Day standings[edit]
By Franchise (as of 2017 NFL Season)
Team
W
L
T
PCT.
PF
PA
Philadelphia 2 0 0 1.000 42 17
Pittsburgh 2 0 0 1.000 65 33
L.A. Chargers 1 0 0 1.000 42 17
N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 13 10
Denver 2 1 0 .667 54 23
Kansas City 2 1 0 .667 55 57
Miami 2 1 0 .667 64 57
Tennessee 2 2 0 .500 74 86
Arizona 1 1 0 .500 40 63
Baltimore 1 1 0 .500 57 54
Chicago 1 1 0 .500 45 52
Green Bay 1 1 0 .500 52 45
Dallas 2 3 0 .400 90 106
Minnesota 1 2 0 .333 64 71
Cincinnati 0 1 0 .000 21 29
Houston 0 1 0 .000 6 34
San Francisco 0 1 0 .000 7 10
Detroit 0 2 0 .000 27 44
Oakland 0 2 0 .000 40 50
Christmas Eve[edit]
There have also been several games played on Christmas Eve over the years, the most famous of these being an Oakland Raiders-Baltimore Colts playoff contest in 1977 which culminated in a play immortalized as "Ghost to the Post". These games have typically been played early in the afternoon out of deference to the holiday. If Christmas Day falls on a Sunday (most recently in 2016), then most of the weekend's NFL games will be on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, except for a few games played on Thursday, Sunday, or Monday night in the league's regular prime-time TV packages.
The 2004 season featured a Christmas Eve matchup on Friday afternoon, one of the rare instances when the league has played on Friday. The game (Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings for the NFC North title) aired on Fox; Green Bay defeated Minnesota by a score of 34–31. Prior to that, the last Christmas Eve Friday game was played in 1999 when the New Orleans Saints defeated the Dallas Cowboys.
2006 saw Christmas Eve land on a Sunday. While the regular slate of afternoon games was played, no Sunday night game was scheduled. Instead, two games were played on Monday, Christmas Day. NBC, which was under contract to air the Sunday night game, aired the first Christmas Day game pitting the Philadelphia Eagles against the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium, with a 5:00 pm Eastern kickoff (it is the only Monday game called by longtime Monday Night Football announcer Al Michaels since the move of MNF to ESPN and his move to NBC). ESPN followed at 8:30 pm with the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins on Monday Night Football.
In 2007, Christmas Eve landed on a Monday. This proved especially problematic; the league's television contract with ESPN requires the league to provide 17 Monday Night Football games over the course of the first 16 weeks of the season (the league no longer schedules a Monday night game for the final weekend of the season, for multiple reasons). In seasons past, the league compensated for an instance like this by giving ESPN or ABC an extra Saturday or Thursday night game later in the season, but this was no longer possible because the new television contract gave the rights to those games to NFL Network. Thus, with the league already stretching its limits by placing a Monday night doubleheader on opening weekend, this meant that every available Monday night would have to air at least one game, even if it were Christmas Eve. To ease the issue, the game was scheduled between two Western teams, the Denver Broncos at the San Diego Chargers, so that the game could start at 5:00 PM local time. The same scenario was set to occur in 2012, but the NFL's newly renegotiated television rights returned the rights to occasional Saturday night games to ESPN, which allowed them to move the scheduled "Monday night" game for that week to the Saturday before (the Saturday night game in 2012 would feature the Atlanta Falcons and Detroit Lions – it was during this game that Detroit's Calvin Johnson surpassed Jerry Rice's 1,848 yard single season receiving record from 1995).
When Christmas Eve falls on a Thursday, as it did in 2009, the Thursday Night Football game can be moved to Friday on Christmas. The 2009 game was between the Chargers and the Tennessee Titans in Nashville, with a special start time of 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central. The league chose not to exercise this option in 2015, when it scheduled a Thursday night Christmas Eve game between the Chargers and the Oakland Raiders.
For 2016, Christmas Eve fell on a Saturday. A reduced slate of 11 afternoon games were scheduled on Christmas Eve, as well as a primetime game (being broadcast as a special edition of Thursday Night Football) between the Houston Texans and Cincinnati Bengals.[7][5]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Ho Ho Ho! The NFL on Christmas History
Jump up ^ "NFL Playoffs on Christmas Draw Protests Across Land". The Los Angeles Times. 1971-12-17.
Jump up ^ Eldridge, Larry (1971-12-22). "The football grinch who stole Christmas". The Christian Science Monitor.
Jump up ^ http://www.oursportscentral.com/usfl/1986sked.php
^ Jump up to: a b "NFL throws huge Christmas curveball on 2016 regular-season schedule". CBSSports.com. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
Jump up ^ Molloy, Tim and Lucas Shaw (September 8, 2011). 'Monday Night Football' to Remain on ESPN Through 2021. The Wrap. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
Jump up ^ "NFL Week 16 schedule: Christmas comes early for pro football fans". AL.com. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
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