Once upon a time, Christmas Day belonged to the NBA.

Those days are long gone, as the NFL has taken over the holiday in full force, and this year, they are emptying the star-power tank.

Back-to-back Super Bowl champions Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will travel to play the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Then Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens will take on C.J. Stroud and the Houston Texans.

Here’s all you need to know about the festive action this week…

NFL Christmas Day fixtures: Kick-off times

Of course, the action is taking place on Wednesday, December 25.

The Chiefs will face the Steelers in the first kick-off on Christmas Day, with that game starting at 1pm EST, which is 6pm UK time.

Then after that, the Ravens take on the Texans at 4:30pm EST which will be at 9pm in the UK.

The four teams playing on Christmas, played the previous Saturday, to try and give those teams an extra rest day.

The Chiefs beat the Texans 29-17 at the weekend, while the Ravens throttled the Steelers 34-17.

Last year, Christmas Day fell on a Monday, so it was much easier to schedule multiple games on the holiday, with only two this year.

There were three games in 2023, with an average of 28.7 million viewers tuning in to one of three games.

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NFL Christmas Day fixtures: How to follow

The Christmas Day games will be available to follow on talkSPORT.

talkSPORT 2 will have live commentary of the Chiefs vs Steelers clash with coverage starting at 6pm.

Then at 9:30pm, you can follow live commentary of the Ravens vs Texans on talkSPORT.

To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream. 

You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.

Both games will also be streamed live on Netflix.

It will be Netflix’s first-ever live-streamed football games.

“We couldn’t be more excited to be the first professional sports league to partner with Netflix to bring live games to fans around the world,” said Hans Schroeder, NFL executive vice president of media distribution, in a statement.

The games will also be broadcast on TV in the competing team’s cities, and available on US mobile devices with NFL+.

They will not be available to watch on TV in the UK – apart from on Netflix.

To add to the NFL’s own star power, the league and Netflix have also arranged for Beyonce to perform at the halftime of the Ravens-Texans game.

It doesn’t get much bigger than Beyonce performing on Christmas!