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

[CowboyStar88]

 

[Runwildboys]

Every team that was in the league then had the opportunity to sign up. Now if the Jaguars or Panthers had a beef, they might be worth listening to.

 

[RJ_MacReady]

No, Jerry has someone on staff that shines them everyday

Probably his son-in-law..

 

[Bohuntr97]

Jeez, they beat us 33-10 on turkey day a few years ago.

 

[Reality]

The NFL and networks know the Cowboys are huge ratings in any game, especially on Thanksgiving, which means the networks can charge a lot more for the ads in those games. Half the viewers tune in hoping the Cowboys win while the other half tunes in hoping they lose.

The Lions on the other hand do not offer that but they are tied to the Cowboys on Thanksgiving through history and tradition so if the NFL ever took it away from the Lions, then it would open them up to having to replace the Cowboys soon after.

The bottom line is that with NFL ratings declining in recent years, if fans ever stop watching Thanksgiving games .. for any reason, it's unlikely they will get them back in the future no matter what moves they make, so the last thing they want to do is change or remove the Cowboys and Lions from those games.

I think the NFL adding a third game deflated (pun intended) any chance, at least in the near future, of the league removing the Cowboys from Thanksgiving Day or even taking the home game away from them.

 

[G2]

Still upset they've won one championship post the invention of facemasks.

 

[Established1971]

In my philly fan voice

*snort
*heavy breathing

Yo ain’t nobody worried about dah cahh Boiz we got dat ring now E-A-G-O-E-Z egoez !!

cool, now do a Texan

 

[cern]

I would have thought better of lurie. How rude. How petty.

 

[windward]

In my philly fan voice

*snort
*heavy breathing

Yo ain’t nobody worried about dah cahh Boiz we got dat ring now E-A-G-O-E-Z egoez !!

Pretty much what I was told. Or they bragged about beating us 33-10 on Thanksgiving in 2014.

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Hold on chief

Why tho?

The only issue I’ve ever had with it was if the NFL Network night game happened to be NFC that year, it could be 6 straight NFC teams on Thanksgiving, as it was last year. So odds are slim that a Jacksonville or a Baltimore will ever get to play on Thanksgiving, and when they do the next time could be decades away.

I think a better proposal would be to simply add games on thanksgiving. Have the lions at 1 on fox, cowboys at 4:15, then on CBS have 2 AFC games, then nbc gets the night game. What you could do with this is make the cowboys and lions games always divisional to give them stakes and highlight rivalries, because you don’t have to worry about rotating in the other 30 teams just for those two games.

Make it like the nba on Christmas where it’s more of a special event than just “here’s a tradition where a couple games are randomly during thanksgiving.”

 

[jazzcat22]

Dirty dogs tried to pull a fast one .........lol

Lamar Hunt and the Chiefs tried that for years and to no avail also.

 

[America's Cowboy]

The NFL and networks know the Cowboys are huge ratings in any game, especially on Thanksgiving, which means the networks can charge a lot more for the ads in those games. Half the viewers tune in hoping the Cowboys win while the other half tunes in hoping they lose.

The Lions on the other hand do not offer that but they are tied to the Cowboys on Thanksgiving through history and tradition so if the NFL ever took it away from the Lions, then it would open them up to having to replace the Cowboys soon after.

The bottom line is that with NFL ratings declining in recent years, if fans ever stop watching Thanksgiving games .. for any reason, it's unlikely they will get them back in the future no matter what moves they make, so the last thing they want to do is change or remove the Cowboys and Lions from those games.

I think the NFL adding a third game deflated (pun intended) any chance, at least in the near future, of the league removing the Cowboys from Thanksgiving Day or even taking the home game away from them.

BOOM!!! This ^^^^

 

[Little Jr]

Maybe if we win like 90% of the time they would have a point, but that is not true.

It’s not a competitive advantage, we lose fairly regularly on Thanksgiving

Yep, about .500 over the last 20 years and 31-19-1 over all.

 

[zerofill]

Still upset they've won one championship post the invention of facemasks.

LOL that was great!

 

[jazzcat22]

When the NFL wanted to add another game on T-day, Dallas stepped up to do it, and did for a while, except in I think 1974. Then no teams still wanted it so Tex Schramm told the NFL Dasllas will do it in 1975. On the condition they get a game every year until they decide not to do it anymore. And the NFL agreed.

So then after years of success is when Lamar Hunt started his whining, but he wanted to take it away from Dallas, not Detroit. Part of his hate he had for being ran out of Dallas and went to KC.

So I guess Philly realized they won't get it passed either.
NFL needs to stick to their agreement and squash these ideas as soon as they come up.

 

[viman96]

So many teams and fans complain every year about having to play TNF because it is a short week. Haha and yet they whine about Dallas playing on Thanksgiving.

 

[Melonfeud]

Lamar Hunt and the Chiefs tried that for years and to no avail also.

Easy there bro, as that "Hunt"clan got very old and intertwining roots with my mothers maiden clans given handle side of the family tree (that's been traced back to 1630 from a ship outta' Ireland)

 

[cowboyec]

eagles suck.

 

[GMO415]

iggles eat a bowl of D

 

[ShortRound]