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Several other NFL teams played regularly on Thanksgiving in the first eighteen years of the league, including the Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals (1922–33; the Bears played the Lions from 1934 to 1938 while the Cardinals switched to the Green Bay Packers for 1934 and 1935), Frankford Yellow Jackets, Pottsville Maroons, Buffalo All-Americans, Canton Bulldogs (even after the team moved to ...
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 ...
A year after that initial Thanksgiving Day game in Detroit, the Lions collected the first NFL title in team history. Detroit would win three more championships in the 1950s before enduring a title ...
Where to watch NFL Thanksgiving games The Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions Rams will air on CBS at 12:30 p.m. ET Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. The New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys will air on FOX ...
Every year, millions tune in to watch the annual Thanksgiving NFL games — 2022’s matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants garnered an audience of 42.1 million people, ...
Every year since 1892, the University of California, Berkeley and the Stanford University football teams have played an annual game towards the end of November or the beginning of December. [3] The event has become known as The Big Game. The early games in the series were played in San Francisco. Those games suffered at least two calamities.
In 1920, there was a rumor that two football teams, the Chicago Tigers and the Decatur Staleys, had a big game on Thanksgiving. The rumor said that the losing team would have to stop playing football.
Annual Thanksgiving football game. It is one of the oldest rivalries in Central Massachusetts. The games are played at either the Morgan Bowl in Hudson or Kelleher Field in Marlborough. Westfield High School (Westfield, New Jersey) Plainfield High School (Plainfield, New Jersey) 63–45–7 1900; 124 years ago () Annual Thanksgiving football ...