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:
“Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West,
From North and from South, come the pilgrim and guest,
When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board
The old broken links of affection restored,
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.
What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“Now all day long the man who is not dead
Hastens the dark with inattentive eyes,
The woman with white hand and erect head
Stares at the covers, leans for the son’s replies
At last to her importunate womanhood....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)