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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 2008 NFL season was the 89th regular season of the National Football League (NFL), themed with the slogan "Believe in Now.". Super Bowl XLIII, the league's championship game, was at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on February 1, 2009, [2] with the Pittsburgh Steelers coming out victorious over the Arizona Cardinals 27–23 and winning their NFL-record sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy.
The NFL has scheduled games on Thanksgiving since the league’s inception. Playing on Thanksgiving is nothing new for the Chicago Bears, who have done it 37 times — the third most in the NFL ...
Since 1920, the NFL has played games on Thanksgiving. The Detroit Lions, since 1934, and the Dallas Cowboys, since 1966, have been annual hosts in the football tradition.
Thanksgiving Day is here, and the NFL once again is serving up a large plate of football throughout the day. Three games are on tap as friends and family gather for the holiday.
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Get ready for a full day of football on Thanksgiving. Here's the complete schedule. Turkey & touchdowns: Your guide to NFL, college football games on Thanksgiving
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 ...