NFL Week 16 viewership: Christmas shines in a strong week for the league Christmas delivered for the NFL over a strong weekend.
12/30/2020
As we head into the final week of the 2020 NFL regular season, the league is coming off one of its strongest weeks for viewership on the season.
Week 16 started off with Vikings-Saints on Fox and NFL Network on Christmas. The game drew 20.111 million viewers. There were no Christmas Day games in either 2018 or 2019, but there were two in 2017 – Steelers-Texans drew 17.1 million viewers across NBC, NFL Network, and Amazon Prime, while Raiders-Eagles drew 11.735 million viewers on ESPN. Two more Christmas games took place in 2016, with Steelers-Ravens drawing 14.8 million viewers on NFL Network and Chiefs-Broncos drawing 21.4 million viewers on NBC. Prior to that, the last Christmas game came way back in 2011.