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View Poll Results: Should the NFL take the Thanksgiving Day game away from the Lions?
Yes! America deserves a decent football game on Thanksgiving Day! 25 37.88%
No! You heartless bastards, that's all they have! 25 37.88%
There's football on Thanksgiving Day? 7 10.61%
At least it's not Cleveland 9 13.64%
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Old 11-24-2009, 07:33 AM
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For the sake of humanity, can Thanksgiving Day football in Detroit be stopped?
Hasn't this "tradition" gone on long enough? What do you think?
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Old 11-24-2009, 07:36 AM
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Ford Motors was the first large sponsor of the NFL and it that loyalty that keeps the tradition going. When the Ford family sells the team the tradition will likely end.
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Old 11-24-2009, 07:39 AM
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Thanksgiving without football? Never I say! I'm personally looking forward to the A&M/Texas games. Hoping my Aggies can beat the hell outta t.u.
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Old 11-24-2009, 07:51 AM
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Sometimes, that's the only nationally televised game the Lions get.
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Old 11-24-2009, 07:57 AM
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If the Lions didn't play on Thanksgiving, we'd never see them. And, in the past, it was a good chance to check out Barry Sanders.
I like the tradition. Maybe next year they should play the Browns on Turkey Day.
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Old 11-24-2009, 07:59 AM
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If the Lions didn't play on Thanksgiving, we'd never see them. And, in the past, it was a good chance to check out Barry Sanders.
I like the tradition. Maybe next year they should play the Browns on Turkey Day.
cleveland vs detroit... hmmm.. Perhaps they could let a tree fall in the stadium to see if anyone would -
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:05 AM
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I was refering to this past Sunday's game which is being touted as "the game of the year". Really, I don't mind games in which I have little interest in playing on Thanksgiving, that way i can watch and socialize with the family at the same. If the Giants are playing, well then I gotta concentrate a little more on the game a little more.
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:07 AM
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Thanksgiving without football? Never I say! I'm personally looking forward to the A&M/Texas games. Hoping my Aggies can beat the hell outta t.u.
I don't mean no football on Thanksgiving, I mean no football involving the Detroit Lions
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:08 AM
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Well,
There will be 3 NFL games this thursday:

Packers/Lions
Raiders/Cowboys
Giants/Broncos

I'm only interested in the NY/Denver game...but you never can tell with the upset factor. I mean, who knew that the Raiders were gonna take it to Cincy? That Cowboys game could be interesting, if you look back to how big D did against the 'skins.

I'm a fan of tradition too...so blue and gray has always been a part of my Thanksgiving.

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Old 11-24-2009, 08:10 AM
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Are the Giants playing on the NFL network this week? Crap, I'll miss that game and be forced to play with the neices.
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:11 AM
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Patriates should play the Redskins every year. That seems fitting.
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:35 AM
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Be thankful you got to watch Barry Sanders for 10 years.
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:43 AM
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Yes!
I live in metro-detroit and we suffer through this horrible game every thanks giving...I HATE lions football, they suck, have sucked, and will continue to suck...
While we are giving away the TG game, can we ALSO sell this team to owners who will turn it around...The Ford Family cant run a car company, how could they manage a footbal team??
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:53 AM
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Could be worse... The Bucs could be playing Detroit! DOH!
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Be thankful you got to watch Barry Sanders for 10 years.
And that one year of Reggie White stuffing Sanders for a -3 yard game...

*sigh* the good ol' dayz...
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