Chiefs News 4/7: Mark Donovan is pushing to have Christmas game at home

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - SEPTEMBER 15: President of the Kansas City Chiefs Mark Donovan arrives prior to a game against the Cincinnati Bengals at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on September 15, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) | Getty Images The latest Chiefs make ‘aggressive’ 2026 scheduling request with NFL: Kansas City pushing hard to play in these two games | CBS Sports “We’d love to play on Christmas,” Donovan said, via ESPN. “We respect that the league wants to spread it around.

We get it. Right now, we expect to be in a lot of prime-time games. We’ve made it pretty clear that our preference is to play at home on Christmas.

” This is one request that the Chiefs probably have a good chance of getting, especially with Christmas falling on a Friday this year. We already know there will be three games on Dec. 25 this year, which means that the NFL will need six teams to fill the Christmas schedule.

With the holiday falling on a Friday, some teams might he hesitant to volunteer for a game due to the short week, so this could be a spot where the NFL gives the Chiefs what they want. Last year, the Chiefs actually asked the league if they could play on Christmas every year, but the NFL shot that idea down. In the short term, though, the Chiefs make sense.