notthatbluestuff Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Week 12 Bears @ Lions Raiders @ Cowboys Bills @ Saints Chicago and Detroit are garbage. Raiders look like they're falling apart - if Dallas bounces back, it could be an ugly blowout. Buffalo's offense could be in trouble. Saints are starting Trevor Siemian. Very unimpressive all round. If only some of the other games could be flexed in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggie. Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 I'm all for tradition, but I'm sick of Detroit on Thanksgiving. There needs to be a rotation. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scar988 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 I'm glad thanksgiving isn't flexed and because it's such a hassle for everyone involved, it should never be a flex. Saints getting multiple thanksgiving home games is just annoying at this point, but I'm glad they look like trash. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeotheLion Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 I think it's been years since we've had a good Thanksgiving slate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scar988 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Just now, biggie. said: I'm all for tradition, but I'm sick of Detroit on Thanksgiving. There needs to be a rotation. I'm sick of Dallas on it too. I do think tradition for thanksgiving should be both teams can wear a throw back from the same year and not have it count toward their uniform totals for the year and just be a fun game for that as well. Rotate out, just do NFC vs. NFC, AFC vs. AFC and NFC vs. AFC every year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggie. Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, scar988 said: I'm sick of Dallas on it too. I do think tradition for thanksgiving should be both teams can wear a throw back from the same year and not have it count toward their uniform totals for the year and just be a fun game for that as well. Rotate out, just do NFC vs. NFC, AFC vs. AFC and NFC vs. AFC every year At least Dallas can argue they are the most popular team in America and are consistently competitive. Most people in Michigan would rathersee the Wolverines or Red Wings play every Thanksgiving than the Lions. Edited November 22, 2021 by biggie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August4th Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Don't think its that bad. I can see saints/bills and cowboys/raiders being fun odd games. the Lions game drags it down tho they need to end this tradition with Det Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakuvious Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 We've had way worse than Raiders/Cowboys and Saints/Bills in past years. Last year Houston blew out Detroit, and we had Washington beating the Andy Dalton Cowboys. It's been worse. But, it's either always going to have at least one crap game until Detroit either finally gets it's crap together or they move on from giving the Lions a Thanksgiving game every year. But they seem committed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJerseypaint Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Ending tradition because a team is bad now is lame. I know the Lions have been cursed a lot longer than the past 10 years, but the Stafford - Calvin connection was still fun to watch. Plus, they can always become good. Keep it as Dallas, Lions. The NFL tries to get top contenders for primetime games all the time and whiffs, so I don't think they will do any better for Thanksgiving. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notthatbluestuff Posted November 22, 2021 Author Share Posted November 22, 2021 4 minutes ago, Jakuvious said: We've had way worse than Raiders/Cowboys and Saints/Bills in past years. Last year Houston blew out Detroit, and we had Washington beating the Andy Dalton Cowboys. It's been worse. But, it's either always going to have at least one crap game until Detroit either finally gets it's crap together or they move on from giving the Lions a Thanksgiving game every year. But they seem committed. Yes, but Ravens/Steelers was technically part of the original slate even though it was postponed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jameson_Neat Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Personally, I don't care about the game because it's already been diluted by the league. But there are a lot of families going back generations that plan their day around that game in Detroit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter2_1 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 What was the original reason for having it be Detroit ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJerseypaint Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Hunter2_1 said: What was the original reason for having it be Detroit ? According to Wiki: Quote The first owner of the Lions, George A. Richards, started the tradition of the Thanksgiving Day game as a gimmick to get people to go to Lions football games, and to continue a tradition begun by the city's previous NFL teams.[8] What differentiated the Lions' efforts from other teams that played on the holiday was that Richards owned radio station WJR, a major affiliate of the NBC Blue Network (the forerunner to today's American Broadcasting Company); he was able to negotiate an agreement with NBC to carry his Thanksgiving games live across the network.[9] Quote In 1966, the Dallas Cowboys, who had been founded six years earlier, adopted the practice of hosting Thanksgiving games. It is widely rumored that the Cowboys sought a guarantee that they would regularly host Thanksgiving games as a condition of their very first one (since games on days other than Sunday were uncommon at the time and thus high attendance was not a certainty).[11] This is only partly true; Dallas had in fact decided on their own to host games on Thanksgiving because there was nothing else to do or watch on that day. In 1975 and 1977, at the behest of then-Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the St. Louis Cardinals replaced Dallas as a host team (Dallas then hosted St. Louis in 1976). Although the Cardinals, at the time known as the "Cardiac Cards" due to their propensity for winning very close games, were a modest success at the time, they were nowhere near as popular nationwide as the Cowboys, who were regular Super Bowl contenders during this era. This, combined with St. Louis's consistently weak attendance, a series of ugly Cardinals losses in the three-game stretch, and opposition from the Kirkwood–Webster Groves Turkey Day Game (a local high school football contest) led to Dallas resuming regular hosting duties in 1978; it was then, after Rozelle asked Dallas to resume hosting Thanksgiving games, that the Cowboys requested (and received) an agreement guaranteeing the Cowboys a spot on Thanksgiving Day forever. TLDR: Money. Edited November 22, 2021 by NJerseypaint 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 All six coming off losses lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apparition Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 In what way was an Andy Dalton-led Cowboys team facing WFT, and the 4-7 Lions hosting the 4-7 Texans any better? Because that's what we had last year. At least a couple of these teams are still playing for something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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