Recently, the National Football League decided to go head-to-head with the National Basketball Association on Christmas Day. It's become a sports turf war of sorts.

There was one good thing to come out of the subpar Wednesday football we got on Christmas. Lamar Jackson cemented his status as the best rushing QB ever. The Ravens quarterback broke Michael Vick’s all-time rushing record for quarterbacks (6,109) after his 87-yard rushing performance against the Texans.

For decades, Christmas has been one of the biggest days of the year for the NBA, and the rest of the American sports landscape has taken a step back on the country's biggest holiday.

The NFL has begun encroaching on a holiday that has traditionally belonged to the NBA. James reacted to the move after delivering a Christmas win for the Lakers.

For years, the NBA owned Christmas Day. But the NFL began playing regularly on Christmas Day in 2020, and they're not letting up. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who is in the Pro Football Fame not only as a team executive but also as contributor to helping grow the league,

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones sounds like he wants Christmas Day to become as synonymous with football as it is with Santa. Jones appeared on 105.3 The Fan on Tuesday and hinted that the NFL was in it for the long haul when it came to putting games on Christmas Day,

The Wikipedia page for the history of the NFL on Christmas Day says it all. A section covering the history of Christmas games from 1989 to 2019 is labeled "Occasional regular season games on Christmas Day.