Week Fourteen: Dallas Cowboys (6-5-1) @ Detroit Lions (7-5)

[RedRamage]

7 minutes ago, sagnam said:

Yeah, turns out that’s true. But the review was to see if the player was out of bounds. He wasn’t. The clock should have been restarted. The fact that a challenge also stops the clock same as a timeout, win or lose, is stupid. You could theoretically challenge minor things and if you win end up with 3 extra timeouts.

In theory, yes... but that's only works if you win the challenges and are able to call for them at a period where you would be willing to have called a TO in case you lose. Furthermore, if you use them up then you won't have a challenge if you need it later.

You have a lot of people in the NFL looking for any advantage they can get. If strategic use of challenges lead to "extra" TOs I'm sure we'd be seeing it used much more often.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motown Bombers]

I'm actually surprised by this. I know the Lions have played more Thursday games than anyone, but Dallas is not far behind and figured they would have the most.

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motor City Sonics]

39 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

OH,  F   PFF  

[Mr.TaterSalad]

53 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I'm actually surprised by this. I know the Lions have played more Thursday games than anyone, but Dallas is not far behind and figured they would have the most.

The Lions are also #2 all time for losses on a Sunday with 623. Only the Arizona/St.Louis Cardinals have more with over 700.

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

I'm actually surprised by this. I know the Lions have played more Thursday games than anyone, but Dallas is not far behind and figured they would have the most.

 

I think we've been playing on Thanksgiving Thursdays since 1935 or something?

[RedRamage]

On 12/5/2025 at 3:07 PM, Sports_Freak said:

I think we've been playing on Thanksgiving Thursdays since 1935 or something?

1934, actually... and, this is going to ruffle a few feathers, the Lions didn't invent Football on Turkey Day. They weren't even the first NFL team to do it. 

What made the Lions effort unique were two things: First was the fact that Lions owner George Richards also owned WJR, which was part of the Blue Network (which became ABC) and the Lions game was broadcast nationwide on the radio. And of course the second thing was that the Lions would go on to do it (almost) every year after. (They didn't play in T-Day during WWII.)

So the Lions didn't invent it, but they were the ones who made it wildly popular and cemented it as a NFL tradition. Lots of the info here was pulled from the wikipedia article on NFL on Thanksgiving Day if you want to read more.

Some numbers (also pulled from there):

The Lions have played 85 T-Day games. Second closest is of course the Cowboys with 58. The Bears and Packers are tied for 3rd place with 38.

Most wins also goes to the Lions with 38 wins. With them also having 46 loses and 2 ties that's a sad .452 WPct. Second place is unsurprisingly the Cowboys with 35 wins.

The Arizona Cardinals have the 5th most T-Day games as they used to host them quite regularly in the past in their various stops around the country. As the Chicago Cards they hosted 1922, '24, '33-'35, and '50. As the St. Louis Cards they hosted on '75 and '77.

[CMRivdogs]

56 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

1934, actually... and, this is going to ruffle a few feathers, the Lions didn't invent Football on Turkey Day. They weren't even the first NFL team to do it. 

What made the Lions effort unique were two things: First was the fact that Lions owner George Richards also owned WJR, which was part of the Blue Network (which became ABC) and the Lions game was broadcast nationwide on the radio. And of course the second thing was that the Lions would go on to do it (almost) every year after. (They didn't play in T-Day during WWII.)

So the Lions didn't invent it, but they were the ones who made it wildly popular and cemented it as a NFL tradition. Lots of the info here was pulled from the wikipedia article on NFL on Thanksgiving Day if you want to read more.

Some numbers (also pulled from there):

The Lions have played 85 T-Day games. Second closest is of course the Cowboys with 58. The Bears and Packers are tied for 3rd place with 38.

Most wins also goes to the Lions with 38 wins. With them also having 46 loses and 2 ties that's a sad .452 WPct. Second place is unsurprisingly the Cowboys with 35 wins.

The Arizona Cardinals have the 5th most T-Day games as they used to host them quite regularly in the past in their various stops around the country. As the Chicago Cards they hosted 1922, '24, '33-'35, and '50. As the St. Louis Cards they hosted on '75 and '77.

Thanksgiving Day football games began as a college tradition. Stolen by the NFL.

[lordstanley]

Per Wikipedia, here are the records of CFL teams playing Thanksgiving games on the 2nd Monday in October.

[Sports_Freak]

America loves America's team.....and the Cowboys;