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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.
The Lions would play the Bears in the first ever Thanksgiving Day NFL game in 1934. The site would be the University of Detroit Stadium with 26,000 people in attendance, according to the Pro ...
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 ...
The Lions have won 37 games on Thanksgiving, giving them the most on the NFL's biggest holiday. ... Detroit also has 45 losses on Thanksgiving, but recent history suggests that Dan Campbell's team ...
The Lions played the Bears in the first-ever Thanksgiving Day NFL game in 1934. The site was the University of Detroit Stadium with 26,000 people in attendance, according to the Pro Football Hall ...
Annual Thanksgiving Day game. First played Thanksgiving morning 1882 at Morton Field in Wellesley (named West Needham at the time). The oldest public high school rivalry. Notable games include a game at Fenway Park in Boston in 2015, won by Needham 12–7. [1] [2] [4] Fordham Preparatory School Xavier High School (New York City) 49–39–3
Last season's Cowboys game on Thanksgiving drew 41.4 million viewers, the third-most viewers in NFL regular-season history. And people will watch again this year, even though they shouldn't.
In 1900, the game took place at the former California League baseball grounds, which local newspapers called the 16th and Folsom Grounds, on Thanksgiving Day, which at the time was the last Thursday in November. The stadium was located in a heavily industrial part of San Francisco.