Which NFL games are on TV?

The games are timed perfectly with how families plan Thanksgiving and it’s why football and Thanksgiving are intertwined. Moving laterally is not a good thing for a slashing runner like Murray, but he enters a pretty good situation on Thanksgiving day.

That isn’t fair. Of the top 40 television programs last fall, according to Nielsen, four fell on Thanksgiving Day. The practice stuck, almost. Detroit has limited their opponents to 29 points combined, as they have shut down their opponents running attack – the Lions have held Green Bay and Oakland to 50 and 47 yards, respectively.

It was the first time an ad for the film about football-related brain trauma has appeared during an NFL game. Within a decade it was the premier athletic event in the nation. Players, students, and fans wore their school colors while banners flew from carriages, hotels, and the business establishments of the city. Sometimes these Turkey Bowls end up in trips to the emergency room, but it does not matter to many families. The Cowboys went 0-7 without Romo, and you can make a strong case they would’ve won six of those games with him.

Indeed it was, and so it would remain.

The Lions O-Line has played night and day better the last couple of weeks and the D has shut down the Packers and Raiders in consecutive weeks and seems to be getting back towards a level of high confidence. There is a full day’s slate of college basketball games thanks to the litany of early-season tournaments. Detroit, which had a tradition of pro football on Thanksgiving dating back to 1917, hosted the Bears each year until 1938. In 1934 George Richards bought the Portsmouth, Ohio, Spartans, moved them to Detroit, and renamed them the Lions. It was one of only two years since 1966 that Dallas didn’t play host to the non-Detroit Thanksgiving Day game (the Cardinals had the game in 1975 and 1977), and the Dolphins rolled 55-14 behind that onslaught of scoring passes.

I can remember watching bad Packer teams chasing the legendary Lion quarterback Bobby Layne around Briggs Stadium.

For those who don’t know already, I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. Vince Lombardi ended the arrangement.

Nothing blows up a pickup football game quicker than not agreeing to rules before starting the game. The Falcons have had their struggles over the last month and a half, but they’re still a risky team at home.

Much has changed since then as nearly always now it is warm outside our Florida home.

The Lions have played in 75 games on Thanksgiving in franchise history (the most in the NFL), but have managed only a 46.7% win percentage.

Over in Texas, the Cowboys looking to upset the undefeated Carolina Panthers. The Lions are just 3-7, but have won their last two games.

Eddie Lacy has been a major headache for most owners this season, but he finally had a 100-yard rushing game last week against Minnesota.

The final game of the day has the Green Bay Packers hosting the Chicago Bears.

In 2006, the National Football League added a third primetime game. The problem will be finding a time slot. Obviously the likes of Barry Sanders with the Lions had their day in the sun in terms of performing on Thanksgiving.

But with the introduction of the NFL Network and the league’s aggressive push to deliver its product well beyond Sunday, Thursday night games have become a regular part of every team’s schedule.