The NFL team most synonymous with Thanksgiving football is the Detroit Lions, who played their first Thanksgiving game in 1934 when radio executive George A. Richards — who had purchased the ...

Even the refs couldn't stop the NFL from scoring monster ratings on Thanksgiving. Thursday's game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Dallas Cowboys was watched by an estimated 38.531 million ...

Then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle experimented with the concept of having the St. Louis Cardinals, instead of the Cowboys, be the other featured team alongside the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving.