Charles Barkley blasts NFL for Christmas Day games

The NFL playing games connected Christmas Day is simply a comparatively caller phenomenon.

Usually, the NFL has owned Thanksgiving Day speech from the games that are played connected Sundays and Mondays. But this year, the NFL partnered with Netflix to person 2 games during the time and a crippled connected Amazon Prime Video astatine night. The games are up against the NBA, which has owned the vacation connected TV for respective years.

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Charles Barkley stands successful the 2nd tee container during the archetypal circular of the American Century Championship astatine Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course connected July 11, 2025 successful Stateline, Nevada. (Eakin Howard/Getty Images)

The NFL’s encroachment connected the NBA is thing that appeared to irk Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley.

"The NFL got greedy and started adding Christmas games. We utilized to person this time to ourselves, but Roger Goodell and them pigs astatine the NFL ever privation to hog each time of the week now," Barkley said connected ESPN arsenic the NBA’s docket got started. "Christmas is an NBA day."

Barkley antecedently blasted the NFL successful January 2024 for having an exclusive Peacock crippled during the playoffs.

Charles Barkley stands successful the 2nd tee container during the archetypal circular of the American Century Championship astatine Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course connected July 11, 2025 successful Stateline, Nevada. (Eakin Howard/Getty Images)

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He said astatine the clip that showing a playoff crippled connected streaming was "low class."

"That’s not cool, they’re conscionable being greedy pigs," helium said connected ESPN Radio astatine the time. "I’m gladsome immoderate NFL players are taking immoderate shots astatine them … I cognize the NFL is the biggest happening successful the world, but to enactment this crippled connected Peacock and marque radical person to bargain Peacock, that’s conscionable debased class. I’m disgusted."

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The NFL’s domination implicit the sports speech is lone going to turn should the league and players hold to an 18th game. The conception had been floated successful caller years with the anticipation of the Super Bowl moving to Presidents’ Day.

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