Quote:How about letting Dallas and Detroit play each other every year for Thanksgiving with home field being rotated each year? That would at least keep the two playing Thanksgiving football while freeing up an extra game. This would be a great way to keep a tradition while creating a potentially historical annual rivalry.

 

  If this was done,  under the present NFL schedule format it would have to be every 3 seasons,  being that the Lions and Cowboys are only guaranteed playing each other every 3 seasons.

 

  I would accept something like this if it was the only way to keep the Lions and Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day every season.  Yet,  it would be very disappointing at least in the case of the Lions considering that the annual Lions home Thanksgiving Day game is tied into other traditional local events in the Detroit area, including the Downtown Thanksgiving Day parade.   This goes back to 1934 and has been the case except during the WWII years.  

 

  Many fans of other teams don't even want their favorite team to host a Thanksgiving Day game during the day because it would disrupt their usual Thanksgiving Day plans.   If the NFL were to consider changing the Thanksgiving Daytime games format,   the league should poll the season ticket holders of the other 30 teams to see how they would feel about going to an NFL game during the daytime on Thanksgiving Day.   

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