Get Cowboys Thanksgiving Game History Gif. Thanksgiving is an american holiday of great importance. The dallas cowboys have a long history of playing on thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Day 2001: A Dallas Cowboys oddesssy from cdn.chatsports.com But they've played on the holiday before. Since its inception in 1920, the national football league (nfl) has played games on thanksgiving day, patterned upon the historic playing of college football games on and around the thanksgiving holiday. The cowboys, on the other hand, began hosting a thanksgiving game in 1966.
Cowboys' thanksgiving game facts and figures:
The dallas cowboys entered thanksgiving with: The league gives the lions and the cowboys permanent shotgun because they volunteered to sit in the front seat on thanksgiving when so don't expect either team to lose their thanksgiving home games, temporarily or permanently. When the chance to take the field schramm saw the thanksgiving day game as a great way to get the team some national publicity even as it struggled under young head coach tom landry. And because the nfl is such a patriotically driven league, emphasizing american this year, the detroit lions will be in the early game, with the dallas cowboys coming after.
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