Why Four Teams Are Wearing Special Patches During Week 16, 17 of NFL Season

Explaining the special patches on Chiefs, Steelers, Ravens, and Texans uniforms.

Patrick Mahomes's Chiefs are one of four teams playing on Christmas Day this year | Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images

The NFL season is inching towards its conclusion, but before playoff football comes Christmas Day football.

The league will yet again attempt to steal as many eyeballs as possible on Christmas by holding two games— the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers, and a 2023 playoff rematch in the form of the Baltimore Ravens clashing with the Houston Texans.

To help promote the holiday schedule, all four teams will be wearing a special patch you may see on the uniforms over the course of two weeks.

NFL Christmas Jersey Patches for Chiefs, Steelers, Ravens, Texans

In Week 16 and Week 17, these four teams will be wearing a special custom NFL logo patch on their jerseys. It's a simple design: the NFL logo silhouetted by candy canes. A real Christmas vibe.

The four teams who are a part of the NFL’s Christmas Day games — Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City and Pittsburgh — will wear holiday-inspired uniform patches during Weeks 16 and 17, the league said in a memo sent today. pic.twitter.com/NQEDBNNQfB

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 11, 2024

While the Christmas Day games are part of the Week 17 slate, the NFL presumably wants to draw as much attention as possible to the contests. Especially given they will not be available via traditional broadcast methods; both games will be exclusively aired on Netflix. So the patches will be worn during Week 16, too.

Coincidentally (or perhaps not so much) all four teams will be playing each other in the week before Christmas. So when the Chiefs take on the Texans and the Steelers battle the Ravens on December 21, you will see the patches on everybody's uniform.

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