Watching the Detroit Lions lose on Thanksgiving Day has become a holiday tradition unlike any other. Why do the Lions always play on Thanksgiving? NFL Lions BUFvsDET
, suggesting the game would give the still-fledgling NFL vital exposure. The game was a massive success; a Detroit-record crowd attended the game while listeners across the U.S. enjoyed the gridiron action over the airwaves. A new great American tradition was born.
With the exception of 1939-44 during World War II, the Lions have hosted a Thanksgiving Day game every year since 1934. The first nationally televised game was in 1953, when theA year after that initial Thanksgiving Day game in Detroit, the Lions collected the . Detroit would win three more championships in the 1950s before enduring a title drought that Detroit does not enjoy to this day. at altering the Thanksgiving Day schedule so more teams could host games on the holiday.By the mid-1960s, the NFL was well on its way to becoming the entertainment behemoth it is today. Television networks, eager to satisfy the sporting appetites of audiences, worked with the NFL to add a second Thanksgiving Day game for the 1966 season.
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