Thanksgiving Football Games Nfl

With the exception of a six season gap. Texans at lions will kick things off followed by redskins at cowboys and then ravens at steelers in the night cap. After getting treated to a redskins cowboys matchup were going to polish off thanksgiving with a juicy afc north.

No matter what year the nfl scheduleis released the thanksgiving tradition of the cowboys and lions playing on turkey day is the one.

Thanksgiving football games nfl. The nfl is leaning into divisional rivalries for this years thanksgiving slate. Yes the cowboys have hosted a thanksgiving game for 42 consecutive years but dallas is still far off from detroit in terms of being a thanksgiving mainstay. The thanksgiving games are also interesting this year. The cowboys thanksgiving tradition started in 1966 skipping 1975 and 1977.

Gettythe cowboys and lions both plan annually on thanksgiving. Thanksgiving and football are about as synonymous with the holiday as turkey and dressing. John breech may 8 2020. The steelers and ravens battled on thanksgiving in 2013 a 22 20 ravens win that saw steelers coach mike tomlin step.

And once again fans can get their fill of food and football on thursday with an nfl tripleheader and a.