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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 has featured professional football for more than 100 years. Here's why two teams have played more games on the holiday than any others. ... Decatur Staleys 6-0 Chicago Tigers. Elyria ...
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 ...
There was a lot of football left to be played, but Tolman assistant coach Mark Gaumond got his biggest win of the night at halftime of the Tigers' Thanksgiving game.
On October 24, 1920, the Decatur Staleys (renamed the Chicago Bears in 1922) played a game against the Tigers at Cubs Park and billed it as "the season's most professional game" that would also determine the "pro title". Many Decatur games, at the time, were billed as championships in an attempt to lure crowds. The Staleys defeated the Tigers ...
The Lions built a 16–7 lead at halftime, but the Bears would score 12 unanswered points in the second half to come away with the 19–16 to clinch the NFL Western Division title. The Bears and Lions have met a total of 20 times on Thanksgiving, all in Detroit, with the Bears holding a 11–9 record in the Thanksgiving meetings. December 16, 1956
While the Lions are well known for playing on Thanksgiving Day, the other Detroit teams had a history of playing on Thanksgiving Day as well: 1917 Heralds vs. Canton Bulldogs (lost 7–0) [19] 1920 Heralds at Dayton Triangles (lost 28–0) [20] 1921 Tigers, merged with the Buffalo All-Americans, at Chicago Staleys (won 7–6) [3] [20]
When is the Detroit Lions-Chicago Bears Thanksgiving halftime show? The Lions and Bears kick off at 12:30 p.m. Thursday on CBS. You can expect the halftime show to begin somewhere around 1:30-2 p ...