Week 16: Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints
The closing stretch of the 2020 NFL Season not only gives us a rematch of the Wild Card meeting between the Vikings and the Saints, that ended with the Vikings pulling off the upset, but it also gives us some football on Christmas Day.
On a Friday.
Christmas Day falls on a Friday this year, and with the league putting a slate of games on the holiday that will give football fans some Friday NFL action, which is something that is a bit of a rarity in league history. There has not been a Friday game since 2009, when the Tennessee Titans hosted the San Diego Chargers, also on Christmas Day. According to Pro Football Reference, there have been 28 games played on Friday in the history of the league, with a large majority of them actually falling on non-Holidays.
This time around, we get a playoff rematch between two teams largely expected to again contend for postseason positioning. A definite holiday treat.