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The Los Angeles Rams will host the Denver Broncos on Christmas Day.

The Week 16 game will be shown on CBS. Time. The second game of a Christmas tripleheader was announced by the NFL last month.

Russell Wilson played 20 games against the Rams as the quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, and the game will pit Los Angeles against him. Wilson was traded to Denver in March.

The NFL played on Christmas for the third year in a row.

The Packers' Christmas Day victory over the Browns averaged 28.6 million viewers on Fox last year, making it the third-most watched game of the season. The Colts win over the Cards averaged over 12 million viewers, making it the second-highest-viewed game in network history.

The league will have its regular Thursday night game in December. There will be 11 games on Saturday, including a night game. The week will end with a Monday night game on December 26.

There have been 24 Christmas Day games in the National Football League. The most famous Dec. 25 game is the Miami-Kansas City double overtime victory.

The complete regular-season schedule will be released Thursday, but the league already has announced several games, including a Week 2 Monday Night Football game.

Information from The Associated Press was used.