Past Thanksgiving Day Games
While the Lions are well known for playing on Thanksgiving Day, the other Detroit teams had a history of playing on Thanksgiving Day as well:
- 1917 Heralds vs Canton Bulldogs (lost 7-0)
- 1920 Heralds at Dayton Triangles (lost 28-0)
- 1921 Tigers, merged with the Buffalo All-Americans, at Chicago Staleys (won 7-6)
- 1925 Panthers vs Rock Island Independents (lost 6-3)
- 1926 Panthers vs Los Angeles Buccaneers (lost 9-6)
- 1928 Wolverines vs Dayton Triangles (won 33-0)
Read more about this topic: Detroit (1920s NFL Teams)
Famous quotes containing the words thanksgiving, day and/or games:
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“All day I’d looked in the face
What I had hoped ‘twould be
To write for my own race
And the reality;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)