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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 ...
On Thursday, November 26, 1953, in the annual Thanksgiving Day game at Briggs Stadium, the Lions defeated the Green Bay Packers, 34–15, before a crowd of 52,607. The game was played under the lights in snow squalls in what the Detroit Free Press dubbed the game a "comedy of errors". The teams combined for 13 turnovers – seven by the Lions ...
The 1951 Lions had compiled a 7–4–1 record and finished in a tie for second place in the NFL National Conference. [1] The 1952 team was a veteran group, including quarterback Bobby Layne (fifth year in NFL, third in Detroit), fullback Pat Harder (seventh year in NFL, second in Detroit), halfbacks Doak Walker (third year in NFL, all in Detroit) and Bob Hoernschemeyer (seventh year in NFL ...
Dan Campbell, the head coach of the Detroit Lions. The Lions have had 30 head coaches throughout their franchise history. Their first head coach was Hal Griffen, who compiled a 5–6–3 (.464) overall record with the team of 1930. Wayne Fontes was the longest-tenured head coach in Lions history, serving from 1988 to 1996. [49]
The Lions have a 37-45-2 record on Thanksgiving Day games. They're 6-18 this century. They have lost seven straight on the holiday, with their last win coming in 2016.
The Detroit Lions take on the Chicago Bears this year on Thanksgiving in their 20th matchup on the holiday in a tradition dating back to 1934.
The 1971 Detroit Lions season was their 42nd in the league.The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 10–4, winning only seven games.. Mired in adversity, the 1971 season turned especially tragic for the Lions and the NFL when, during their week 6 hosting of the Chicago Bears, Lions wide receiver Chuck Hughes collapsed on the playing field.