The NFL drew 65 million U.S. viewers on Netflix for its two games, while the NBA averaged 5.25 million viewers for its five contests.

The NBA has long dominated Christmas, just as Thanksgiving has become synonymous with football, but viewers got the best of both worlds on Wednesday.

Traditionally, the National Football League has stepped aside and let the National Basketball Association have the honors of filling up Christmas Day with nonstop basketball action. However, after Christmas fell on a Sunday last year, and the NFL stuck to airing games on their normal day, they had a thought…