Thursday, November 13th, 2025

TURKEY, TOUCHDOWNS & TINSEL

Gridiron

TURKEY, TOUCHDOWNS & TINSEL

Gridiron

A Season Served With All the Trimmings

For American fans, the holidays aren’t measured in days off, they’re measured in downs. Sure, Thanksgiving carves the turkey, but it also carves out a day-long buffet of football, family and fierce rivalries. Then, before the leftovers are gone, December rolls in with its own frosty spectacle; snow swirling over end zones, playoff ambitions hardening like ice on the field, and, this year, the NFL is unwrapping some Christmas Day football that even Santa might stay in for.

Tackling in a Winter Wonderland

For fans abroad, this stretch of the season is the NFL at its most cinematic. Cold breath in the air, stadium lights glowing through snow flurries and quarterbacks writing their playoff stories one frozen drive at a time. The stands are packed with fans wrapped head to toe in team colours, braving minus temperatures with snowball fights in the stands and heroic quantities of hot chocolate (Green Bay, we’re looking at you). In Buffalo, they actually get paid to show up early and shovel the snow out of the seats before kickoff. It’s everything you imagine about American sport and a little bit more chaotic, heartfelt, and gloriously over-the-top.

All the Festive Fixtures

Thanksgiving weekend kicks it all off: three classic matchups steeped in decades of tradition — Detroit, Dallas and all the trimmings — followed by a Black Friday clash that now feels as essential as pumpkin pie. Then comes Christmas, when the Chiefs, Broncos, Lions, Vikings, Cowboys and Commanders will trade gift wrap for game tape. It’s holiday theatre in shoulder pads. By then, every play starts to matter just a little bit more… the march to the playoffs gathering steam with every frosty snap.

Your All-Access Pass to the Holidays

For international fans, NFL Game Pass on DAZN is your ticket to all of it. The entire holiday run-up to the playoffs and Super Bowl LX… every storyline, every snow game, every last-second kick. Beyond the live games, NFL Network takes you behind the scenes with exclusive shows, documentaries and player features that peel back the helmet and put you right in the locker room.

Stream every game from every team, live* or on demand, and see the real US broadcast: the best commentators, half-time shows, commercials and all (because sometimes the ads are as good as the touchdowns). Whether you’re at work sneaking a look between meetings or curled up on the sofa while the others are watching nativity again, you can take the game anywhere, on any device, anytime.

With Multiview, you can watch up to four live games at once, while RedZone serves up seven hours of unbroken Sunday mayhem, with Scott Hansen juggling eight live games and more drama than any one human should have to process. There really is nowhere else to get it all, and no better way to spend the most wonderful (and wonderfully chaotic) time of the football year.

The Holiday Tradition You Didn’t Know You Needed

So whether you’re watching the Cowboys with your best attempt at a Thanksgiving dinner in November or watching the Chiefs in a Christmas jumper come December, consider this your front row seat to America’s winter ritual… equal parts sport, spectacle and holiday magic.

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*Some blackout restrictions apply. See DAZN.com/NFL for full details.

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