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The NFL Thanksgiving logo used for 2016; the year is updated annually, with the new NFL shield being used for the first time in 2008. Since its inception in 1920, the National Football League (NFL) has played games on Thanksgiving Day, patterned upon the historic playing of college football games on or around the November holiday.
Thanksgiving Day football games in the United States are nearly as old as the game—and the organized holiday—themselves. The first Thanksgiving Day football game took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day of 1869, less than two weeks after Rutgers defeated Princeton in New Brunswick, New Jersey in what is widely recognized as the first intercollegiate football game in the ...
Played on Thanksgiving Day in 1907 as the first championship game in St. Louis County. It is the oldest current Thanksgiving Day rivalry west of the Mississippi River. [1] [56] Galion High School (Galion, Ohio) Bucyrus High School (Bucyrus, Ohio) 65-44-8 1898; 126 years ago () 4th oldest rivalry in Ohio, 8th most played. Last played in 2019.
NFL on Thanksgiving Day; 0–9. 2024 Chicago Bears–Detroit Lions Thanksgiving game; A. American football on Thanksgiving; B. Bounty Bowl; Butt Fumble; R. George A ...
The Thanksgiving Day Disaster took place in San Francisco on November 29, 1900, at the annual college football game between the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal, also known as The Big Game.
The Cornell–Penn football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Cornell Big Red and Penn Quakers. [1] [2] [3] Traditionally, the game was played on Thanksgiving Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [1] but now alternates between Philadelphia and Ithaca, New York. The game was often played as the last game of the regular ...
The Turkey Day Classic is a college football game, traditionally held annually on Thanksgiving Day. [1] Originally, it was played between Alabama State University and Tuskegee University, two historically black universities. [2] The game was originally played in Montgomery, Alabama's Cramton Bowl, but relocated to ASU Stadium in 2012.
The Butt Fumble was a notorious American football play from a National Football League (NFL) game played on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2012, between the New York Jets and New England Patriots.