Hour 2: Who Owns Christmas: NBA or NFL?
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:32.7 | Oh, what a shot from current! |
| 0:34.3 | In his bag. Deep. |
| 0:35.7 | Home in the army? |
| 0:36.4 | 360, light up. Christmas is our. Deep. One medium? Three sixty. |
| 0:38.3 | Christmas is our day. |
| 0:39.3 | We got ourselves another Christmas classic. |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome back to first take. Tomorrow's going to be a good one. We've got a great Christmas Day slate in the NBA in three NFL games on Christmas Day as well. So starting the day off, one Eastern. Cowboys are in D.C. taking on the commanders. Not much at stake for this. |
| 1:06.0 | Cowboys. Both have been eliminated already from playoff. Don't tell Jared at. |
| 1:10.0 | At 4.30, we have a matchup in the NFC North between the Vikings and the Lions. Lions, dire situation for Detroit. The Lions have a 70% chance to make the postseason. They need a win, and they need Green Bay to lose this weekend to stay alive. And the nightcap, the Chiefs, no Patrick Mahomes, hosting the the Broncos. It's high stake for Denver needs to win its final two games in order to hold on to the one seat in the AFC. The Chiefs have already been eliminated. That's crazy. All right, Jeff and Joe are back here with us for one of my favorite debates about holiday viewership. Big Perk here as well. I'm in the Christmas spirit here, Perk. A lot of NFL people at this table. I'm going to give you first crack at this. Who owns Christmas Day? Is it the NBA or is it the NFL? Why are you looking like that? Just angry. Because I want you to pick your damn head up. I want you to pick your damn head up, damn. You know what's about to come out of my mouth. The NBA. Damn it, Christmas belonged to us. And look, my New Year's resolution in 2026 is to mind my own damn business. I wish the NFL will follow my life. Damn me, we gave y'all. |
| 2:18.8 | Y'all got Thanksgiving. |
| 2:35.4 | Now y'all want to step into our business, and you know what else, Swagoo? You're going to relate to this. You know those old people down there in the country used to say, God don't like us. God don't like us. You know, when you do something out of spite and you try to be petty. See, the NFL tried to be petty when they came on Christmas Day. |
| 2:36.5 | And guess what happened? |
| 2:35.0 | Now all of a sudden, you got the Cowboys and the Commanders. |
| 2:39.6 | Nobody want to watch that. Nobody allowed because, again, the Cowboys as expected. Then let the |
| 2:45.1 | fan baits down. Then all of a sudden, you got the lines at the Vikings. Nobody want to, nobody |
| 2:50.0 | want to watch that as well. |
| 2:52.6 | Right? |
| 2:52.8 | No one wants to see a disgruntled just in Jefferson. |
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