the major problem with having football on Christmas is scheduling. if Christmas falls on a Tues or Wed, it would be a complete mess for scheduling. as it is, NFL games on Thurs are bad enough.
as a fan, sure it'd be nice to have a game to watch, but i'm more interested in the quality of play where both scheduling and lack of motivation for having to play on Christmas could really hurt the quality.
also, because Christmas time is the last week of the season, the match-up would likely be completely meaningless unless they somehow 'flexed' the Christmas game. and if they flexed it, that would mean at least one playoff team in contention would play in the game. imagine if that playoff team was only coming off of 2 days rest or so.
Thanksgiving is totally different since it always falls on a Thursday and there's Thursday games every week.
as a fan, sure it'd be nice to have a game to watch, but i'm more interested in the quality of play where both scheduling and lack of motivation for having to play on Christmas could really hurt the quality.
also, because Christmas time is the last week of the season, the match-up would likely be completely meaningless unless they somehow 'flexed' the Christmas game. and if they flexed it, that would mean at least one playoff team in contention would play in the game. imagine if that playoff team was only coming off of 2 days rest or so.
Thanksgiving is totally different since it always falls on a Thursday and there's Thursday games every week.
I agree but what if they flexed some meaningless games on X-mas? Det v Minny, Wash v NYG or Hou v Ten? The players would go for it because it would be three less BS practices, owners would like it because they could fire their coaches before teams playing on Sunday and in all honesty those games would be higher rated than the NBA games and much higher rated than they would normally get on Sunday at 1 PM vs games that matter. I know it would never happen but it could work.
