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1 week agoThe Cowboys remain the biggest draw in the NFL
Dallas vs. Kansas City on Thanksgiving drew 57.2 million viewers on CBS, establishing a new regular-season television viewership record.
The Lions have played every Thanksgiving since 1934, with the exception of 1939-44, despite the fact they haven't been a good team most of those years. The Lions played their first season in Detroit in 1934 (before that, they were the Portsmouth Spartans). They struggled their first year in Detroit, as most sports fans there loved baseball's Detroit Tigers and didn't come out in droves to watch the Lions. So Lions owner George A. Richards had an idea: Why not play on Thanksgiving?
The NFL schedule is spread out across four days this holiday weekend with several intriguing matchups on the Week 13 calendar. Three games will be played tomorrow as Americans celebrate friends, food, and football. Black Friday brings an afternoon special in Philadelphia, before a 13-game window closes out the week with the New York Giants on Monday Night Football.