My idea for Thanksgiving Day Football games.

[Vanyel]

Right now the Thanksgiving Day football games are always the Cowboys and the Lions, and now a 3rd team rotating in for a night game.

My idea would be for the Thanksgiving Day game to be hosted by the teams that played in the Superbowl. That means this year the host teams would be the Saint and Colts. Also each team would play the team it met in the Conference Championship game. So this season the games would be Saints/Vikings and Colts/Jets.

What do guys think?

And do you agree or disagree

I do apologize if this has been brought up before in the TrekBBS.

Also I am a Cowboys fan, and I think more teams should have to play the short week game.

 

[JohnChod]

It's become almost as much a part of the tradition as the turkey. I can still see Tom Landry prowling the sidelines to the aroma of the turkey in the oven. Leave it as is.

I also wonder if it would throw a monkey wrench in the NFL scheduling formula? I believe that order of finish dictates which divisons (outside of the team's own) and teams the team will play. I think there might be a "freebie" or two allowed, but I'm not sure.

Can't believe Jerry Jones would want to give up the extra Cowboy exposure either.

 

[Vanyel]

It's become almost as much a part of the tradition as the turkey. I can still see Tom Landry prowling the sidelines to the aroma of the turkey in the oven. Leave it as is.

I also wonder if it would throw a monkey wrench in the NFL scheduling formula? I believe that order of finish dictates which divisons (outside of the team's own) and teams the team will play. I think there might be a "freebie" or two allowed, but I'm not sure.

Can't believe Jerry Jones would want to give up the extra Cowboy exposure either.

JJ wouldn't want it, but the other owners could out vote him. It wouldn't throw any bigger monkey wrench inti schedueling that isn't alreadt there because of the games. I too, can see Landry going up and down the sidelines. Every now and then I wish I could still see him there for real.

 

[chrisspringob]

I also wonder if it would throw a monkey wrench in the NFL scheduling formula? I believe that order of finish dictates which divisons (outside of the team's own) and teams the team will play.

Each team's opponents are determined based on what division they're in and what their order of finish was in the division last year. But that has nothing to do with which games are played on Thanksgiving. The way it currently works is, a team's opponents are determined automatically by this formula, and the NFL simply picks from among these pre-determined matchups what it thinks are interesting home games for Dallas and Detroit, and schedules those games for Thanksgiving. (Also subject to the limitation that one of those games will be against a fellow NFC team, and the other against an AFC team.)

In other words, having Dallas or Detroit or any other team in the league play on Thanksgiving has zero impact on what teams are matched up against each other in season. It only affects the timing of those matchups.

Personally, I'd go for a compromise where Dallas and Detroit get to play on T-giving only if they had a non-losing season the previous year. That way, when, um, say Detroit has a decade long stretch of losing, there isn't this situation where year after year one of the games is a snoozer.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

With the Lions performance sometimes it's the only way we get to see a home game without it being blacked out so I'm against this idea.

 

[SmoothieX]

I also wonder if it would throw a monkey wrench in the NFL scheduling formula? I believe that order of finish dictates which divisons (outside of the team's own) and teams the team will play. I think there might be a "freebie" or two allowed, but I'm not sure.

The Lions and Cowboys are too much a part of Thanksgiving lore to switchout the game. I like the concession they made recently with the 3rd game on NFL Network at night. Since I'm off the next day, it's one of the few primetime games where I can stay up and watch the whole game.

Plus, it would mess with the schedule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_season_(NFL)

Let the champs keep the opening night Thursday game they way they have now, and leave turkey day alone.

 

[Starbreaker]

I just wish I could see some other teams other than the Cowboys and Lions. Can't stand either team.

 

[SmoothieX]

I have no feelings one way or the other toward them.

I just hope the Jets lose the primetime game this year, and every other one for that matter.

 

[archeryguy1701]

Each Sunday, I will watch my team and any other interesting looking game I can find. On Thanksgiving however, I will watch any game that's on. Because of that, I would like to hope for some interesting games. I'm Ok with the Cowboys keeping it because they usually do well. But watching Detroit constantly get smacked around gets old. I say let them keep it if they can start acting like a real football team.

 

[Maestro]

I'm sorry, but I'm still too pissed that the NCAA moved the Texas/Texas A&M game from Friday morning to Thanksgiving night. Something just neat about watching the annual Texas Civil War whilst eating eggs and drinking screwdrivers.