Quote:I think the only Thursday games should be on Thanksgiving. And even then, they need to rotate teams every year.. Sorta give every team a chance to either host or play in a Thanksgiving Day game.. Getting kinda tired of Dallas and Detroit every year.

 

   The night game on Thanksgiving Day provides other teams to host a Thanksgiving Day.   Before the night game became a part of the rotation,  there was a major push from the late Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt to have the Thanksgiving Day games rotated.   The night game enables tradition to be kept and other teams to have an opportunity.  

 

   IMO, tradition is something that helped make the NFL the most popular pro sports league in North America.   One of many bad decisions MLB made in the last 25 years or so is scheduling a National League opener before the home opener of the oldest NL team,  the Cincinnati Reds.    The Reds opening game to start the MLB season had a special quality like the Lions Thanksgiving Day game and the more recent Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game.   Now,  the start of the NL season feels like any other day on the MLB regular season calendar.

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