WHY DO THE DETROIT LIONS
ALWAYS PLAY ON THANKSGIVING?
Households have
their own unique
Thanksgiving
traditions, but one custom
common in many
homes come Turkey
Day involves watching
football. Each year on
Th anksgiving, the National
Football League
hosts a handful of games,
and it’s customary in many households to gather around the television
with friends and family and take in some of the action on
the gridiron, excitement that always features the Detroit Lions.
Th is unique tradition has endured for decades, but when did it
start? According to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the tradition
of the Lions playing on Th anksgiving can be traced to George
A. Richards, who purchased the franchise in 1933 when they
were the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans. Richards felt competing
in a game on Th anksgiving Day would attract Motor City fans
who were more devoted to the Detroit Tigers, the city’s baseball
team. Fans who attended the Lions’ fi rst Th anksgiving Day game
in 1934 were treated to a nail-biter, with the hometown Lions
falling 19-16 to the Chicago Bears at the University of Detroit
Stadium. Th e Bears had won the league championship the previous
year. In a quirk unique to the game in 1934, the two teams
locked horns again just three days later, with the Bears once more
emerging victorious in another close contest that ended with a
10-7 score. In the modern era of the NFL, the teams that play on
Th anksgiving Day do not play on the following Sunday.
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