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With the exception of a six season gap from 1939 to 1944 the thanksgiving day game has been played with no interruptions.

Outfit ideas for thanksgiving dinner. Weve pulled together some fun facts and history about the nfls traditional thanksgiving day games that you may not have known. Saints lone game and victory was 30 27 over cowboys in 2010. The university of michigan also made it a tradition to play annual.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1230 pm. From the 1934 lions to john maddens turducken watch the greatest moments in nfl thanksgiving history. You cant have a top 10 thanksgiving day games list without this classic between the steelers and the lions.

The nfl has played pro football on thanksgiving since 1920 although records indicate that professional football that pre dates the nfl was played on thanksgiving as early as 1892. In that year the college football teams at yale and princeton began an annual tradition of playing each other on thanksgiving day. The key game in the title drive came on thanksgiving day when the lions defeated the bears 14 2 to clinch the west championship.

Saints are 9 1 in the past month they have beaten the vikings in minnesota handed the rams their first loss 45 35 put up 51 points in cincinnati and beat the eagles 48 7. Nfl networks stacey dales and tom pelissero report on how the 2020 detroit lions will. Thus the football on thanksgiving tradition became firmly established in detroit.

The detroit lions have a long history of playing on thanksgiving. The concept of american football games being played on thanksgiving day dates back to 1876 shortly after the game had been invented as it was a day that most people had off from work. The infamous coin toss game will go down as one of the weirdest endings in nfl history.

No games were played on the holiday from 1941 44 because of world war ii. Et the first game of the day as per. Falcons beat the lions 27 7 in 2005 in their first ever thanksgiving day game and lost to the colts 31 13 in 2007.

The first professional football games on thanksgiving were played november 25 1920. Nfl games on thanksgiving have included some great performances and memorable moments over the years. In the nfl the detroit lions and dallas cowboys have been thanksgiving staples.

The legendary harold red grange left made his pro debut for the chicago bears on thanksgiving 1925.