Eagles tried to stop Cowboys and Lions from hosting Thanksgiving Day games

[viman96]

Absolutely. If the NFL took this into account and made sure that every team, over X years, had the same number and configuration of, Thursday night, Teams coming off Bye/mini Bye weeks, then i could care less about thanksgiving...the problem is that the NFL does not care, even a little bit, about fairness in these matters.

Your gripe is with the NFL and every NFL owner because they signed off on TNF and short weeks. Dallas does not have an advantage playing every Thursday on Thanksgiving. Any team scheduled to play in Dallas is giving plenty of time to prepare just like any other Thursday.

 

[viman96]

its not about sticking it to anyone, its about fairness. If the NFL cared about that at all the schedule would be very different than how it winds up. Every year it seems like some team gets absolutely killed playing multiple teams coming off of bye weeks.

Funny last year not 1 Birds' fans described it being unfair when Dallas had to travel to Philly to play the Birds coming off a bye week. In fact most took pleasure in the thought of being able to end Dallas' season.

 

[wrongway]

What's their issue here? Jealousy?

I mean its not like either team gets an extra home game. And sometimes, that T-giving game doesn't work out well for us if the league schedules us for a late Sunday road game. Then we play on T-giving on a shortened week.

And the Eagles shouldn't be *****ing about anything. They have gotten their own gifts. Last year, they only played 7 true road games, playing the 8th game in London against the Jags.

Not to mention I don't know if they handle an offensive holding go against the whole super bowl

 

[JoeKing]

its not about sticking it to anyone, its about fairness. If the NFL cared about that at all the schedule would be very different than how it winds up. Every year it seems like some team gets absolutely killed playing multiple teams coming off of bye weeks. A couple years ago the Eagles had the worst schedule in that regard that i had ever seen...then the next year the Giants were screwed over even more badly. i think they played four weeks in a row against teams coming off of either a bye, or a mini bye. thanksgiving at home bakes one advantage into the schedule every year...the league doesnt seem to try to mitigate that elsewhere in the schedule.

You sound like a millennial with your crying about fairness. Life is not fair and any attempt to artificially mitigate that fact is just a futile endeavor to tip the scale to one side that is still unfair to someone else.

The origin of the Cowboys playing on Thanksgiving day goes back to an agreement that Cowboys GM, Tex Schramm made with the league back in the '60s. The league wanted a Thanksgiving day game but knew a middle of the week game would not be something most teams would want to do because their schedule is geared for games on Sunday. Tex Schramm decided it would be worth the risk because they would get the national exposure on TV. When Tex volunteered the Cowboys for the Thursday game, he said there was one condition that must be met. The Cowboys would play the Thanksgiving day game but they would always get the Thanksgiving day game forever. The league agreed and so the Cowboys have every since then played on Thanksgiving. So isn't holding true to your agreements part of fairness too?

 

[StarOfGlory]

I think the Eagles should play us every Turkey Day in our house. The NFL could feed the homeless off the ratings for that game.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

its not about sticking it to anyone, its about fairness. If the NFL cared about that at all the schedule would be very different than how it winds up. Every year it seems like some team gets absolutely killed playing multiple teams coming off of bye weeks. A couple years ago the Eagles had the worst schedule in that regard that i had ever seen...then the next year the Giants were screwed over even more badly. i think they played four weeks in a row against teams coming off of either a bye, or a mini bye. thanksgiving at home bakes one advantage into the schedule every year...the league doesnt seem to try to mitigate that elsewhere in the schedule.

This is all well and good but you know what, the Eagles were in the NFL before the Cowboys were. The Skins were in the NFL before we were. The Giants were too, although, I have no beef with them on this one because they were actually the only team that tried to help us back in the day.

When the league was holding us out of the NFL, unfairly, nobody cared about fair. When we were finally allowed into the NFL, after years of being blackballed, only to get screwed by every single team in the draft, nobody cared. When The Cowboys, again got screwed by every team in the league when every other team stuck us with players with bad contracts or just down right horrible players that they wanted to get rid of, instead of allowing us to pick unprotected players like you have today, nobody cared. When the NFL introduced Free Agency into the NFL, to primarily kill the Cowboys Dynasty of the 90s, nobody cared. When we were fined 10 Million Dollars in future cap space for over spending in an UNCAPPED year, nobody cared. Hell, when the Thanks Giving Game was first introduced, every team had the opportunity to play in it and none of them wanted it, except us, nobody cared about the game then. Why should we give two hoots about what other teams think now?

I say to them, fill one hand with hope and the other with (you know what) and see which one fills up first.

Screw them.........

 

[glimmerman]

This is all well and good but you know what, the Eagles were in the NFL before the Cowboys were. The Skins were in the NFL before we were. The Giants were too, although, I have no beef with them on this one because they were actually the only team that tried to help us back in the day.

When the league was holding us out of the NFL, unfairly, nobody cared about fair. When we were finally allowed into the NFL, after years of being blackballed, only to get screwed by every single team in the draft, nobody cared. When The Cowboys, again got screwed by every team in the league when every other team stuck us with players with bad contracts or just down right horrible players that they wanted to get rid of, instead of allowing us to pick unprotected players like you have today, nobody cared. When the NFL introduced Free Agency into the NFL, to primarily kill the Cowboys Dynasty of the 90s, nobody cared. When we were fined 10 Million Dollars in future cap space for over spending in an UNCAPPED year, nobody cared. Hell, when the Thanks Giving Game was first introduced, every team had the opportunity to play in it and none of them wanted it, except us, nobody cared about the game then. Why should we give two hoots about what other teams think now?

I say to them, fill one hand with hope and the other with (you know what) and see which one fills up first.

Screw them.........

Say it again!!!

 

[CT Dal Fan]

The Eagles can cry all they want, but the Cowboys and Lions at home on Thanksgiving is an NFL tradition.

I thought the "unfairness" of this was already addressed. First the league added a third primetime Thanksgiving game. And the season-long Thursday Night Football schedule means all the teams benefit from a "mini bye" at some point in the year.

Cry, Eagles, cry.

 

[Bizwah]

So because other teams declined on something before most of us were born we have to live with an unfair advantage forever?

Yes. It’s tradition now.

And whine all you want , but the fact remains that we stepped up when no one else would.

And 3 games in 10 days is not really an advantage.

 

[TheCount]

It probably has a lot of support but was pressured down by the league.

Don't know why you'd think that, but okay.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

 

[Fwed]

Funny last year not 1 Birds' fans described it being unfair when Dallas had to travel to Philly to play the Birds coming off a bye week. In fact most took pleasure in the thought of being able to end Dallas' season.

Hey Einstein. Yea I did say it was unfair. Until the league radically rethinks their scheduling paradigm there will always be week to week unfairness

This is all well and good but you know what, the Eagles were in the NFL before the Cowboys were. The Skins were in the NFL before we were. The Giants were too, although, I have no beef with them on this one because they were actually the only team that tried to help us back in the day.

When the league was holding us out of the NFL, unfairly, nobody cared about fair. When we were finally allowed into the NFL, after years of being blackballed, only to get screwed by every single team in the draft, nobody cared. When The Cowboys, again got screwed by every team in the league when every other team stuck us with players with bad contracts or just down right horrible players that they wanted to get rid of, instead of allowing us to pick unprotected players like you have today, nobody cared. When the NFL introduced Free Agency into the NFL, to primarily kill the Cowboys Dynasty of the 90s, nobody cared. When we were fined 10 Million Dollars in future cap space for over spending in an UNCAPPED year, nobody cared. Hell, when the Thanks Giving Game was first introduced, every team had the opportunity to play in it and none of them wanted it, except us, nobody cared about the game then. Why should we give two hoots about what other teams think now?

I say to them, fill one hand with hope and the other with (you know what) and see which one fills up first.

Screw them.........

so you agree with me that it’s unfair.

 

[Fwed]

You sound like a millennial with your crying about fairness. Life is not fair and any attempt to artificially mitigate that fact is just a futile endeavor to tip the scale to one side that is still unfair to someone else.

The origin of the Cowboys playing on Thanksgiving day goes back to an agreement that Cowboys GM, Tex Schramm made with the league back in the '60s. The league wanted a Thanksgiving day game but knew a middle of the week game would not be something most teams would want to do because their schedule is geared for games on Sunday. Tex Schramm decided it would be worth the risk because they would get the national exposure on TV. When Tex volunteered the Cowboys for the Thursday game, he said there was one condition that must be met. The Cowboys would play the Thanksgiving day game but they would always get the Thanksgiving day game forever. The league agreed and so the Cowboys have every since then played on Thanksgiving. So isn't holding true to your agreements part of fairness too?

Lol what a steaming pile of bs.

 

[Fwed]

Don't know why you'd think that, but okay.

Because the league wants tradition at the expense of fairness. I want fairness even if it costs us some tradition.

 

[Fwed]

Yes. It’s tradition now.

And whine all you want , but the fact remains that we stepped up when no one else would.

And 3 games in 10 days is not really an advantage.

3 in 11 days. And yes it is.

 

[Fwed]

The Eagles can cry all they want, but the Cowboys and Lions at home on Thanksgiving is an NFL tradition.

I thought the "unfairness" of this was already addressed. First the league added a third primetime Thanksgiving game. And the season-long Thursday Night Football schedule means all the teams benefit from a "mini bye" at some point in the year.

Cry, Eagles, cry.

All teams do not benefit equally. The home Thursday game baked into every schedule is not being offset at all.

 

[Fwed]

So we almost all agree that it’s unfair. It helps the cowboys though and it’s tradition so ya want it to continue .

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

So we almost all agree that it’s unfair. It helps the cowboys though and it’s tradition so ya want it to continue .

Isn't there an Eagles forum you could go whine about this on?

 

[Bizwah]

3 in 11 days. And yes it is.

Like a previous poster said....It was also unfair to have a cap penalty imposed upon us during an uncapped season. It was unfair to reverse the Dez catch vs. Green Bay. It was unfair that Zeke was suspended six games when all the evidence pointed to her fabricating the story. All teams can point to "unfair".

Whine all you want....Thanksgiving in Dallas is a tradition. We were pioneering this stuff when all other teams were whining about having to play two games that were too close together. Sheesh. Eagles fans are the biggest crybabies I've ever seen. Maybe that's why they cheered when Michael Irvin lay motionless on the field.

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

Like a previous poster said....It was also unfair to have a cap penalty imposed upon us during an uncapped season. It was unfair to reverse the Dez catch vs. Green Bay. It was unfair that Zeke was suspended six games when all the evidence pointed to her fabricating the story. All teams can point to "unfair".

Whine all you want....Thanksgiving in Dallas is a tradition. We were pioneering this stuff when all other teams were whining about having to play two games that were too close together. Sheesh. Eagles fans are the biggest crybabies I've ever seen. Maybe that's why they cheered when Michael Irvin lay motionless on the field.

I'd like this more than once if I could.