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Rams Host Packers on Thanksgiving Eve, Streamed on Netflix

5/15/2026

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Rams Host Packers

The NFL announced Los Angeles Rams will host Green Bay Packers in a Thanksgiving Eve game streamed on Netflix on November 25, 2026 at SoFi Stadium.
Quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Jordan Love will start for the Rams and Packers, who finished 2025 at 12-5 and 9-7-1 respectively.
Packers fans can buy lower-level tickets from $602, with Netflix streaming the Rams’ season-opening game in Melbourne on September 10 and the NFL Honors show.

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Packers Christmas Clash

The Green Bay Packers will play the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Christmas Day, kickoff 12:00 Noon CT.
It is the first divisional-rival Christmas game for the Packers in a decade, the last in 2016.
The Packers will also play a Thanksgiving Eve game in Los Angeles, with both holiday contests streaming exclusively on Netflix.
The Packers have no international games for 2026, limiting travel to domestic venues.

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Baldwin Targets Blackouts

Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced the “For the Fans Act” to guarantee pro sports broadcast.
She criticized NFL’s Thanksgiving Eve game on Netflix for forcing a subscription and noted Packers-Bears playoff on Amazon Prime Video aired in Green Bay and Milwaukee, leaving five markets without access.
The bill would extend rights to all pro leagues, end NBA League Pass and MLB.tv blackouts, and address DOJ/FCC scrutiny of the NFL’s streaming model.

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Officials Reschedule

Officials revamped the 2026 schedule after fans called last year’s Christmas slate a “lump of coal.”
Christmas Day has Bears-Packers at 1 p.m., Broncos at 4:30 p.m., Rams-Seahawks at 8:15 p.m. on Fox as Thanksgiving adds a Bears-Lions contest at Ford Field on Nov 26.
The 2026 season opens with a Super Bowl LX rematch between Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, followed by Super Bowl LXI Jan 14 2027 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

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Rams Host Packers

The NFL announced Los Angeles Rams will host Green Bay Packers in a Thanksgiving Eve game streamed on Netflix on November 25, 2026 at SoFi Stadium.
Quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Jordan Love will start for the Rams and Packers, who finished 2025 at 12-5 and 9-7-1 respectively.
Packers fans can buy lower-level tickets from $602, with Netflix streaming the Rams’ season-opening game in Melbourne on September 10 and the NFL Honors show.

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