Why Do the Lions and Cowboys Always Play on Thanksgiving?
Every year since 1934, the Detroit Lions have taken the field for a Thanksgiving game, no matter how bad their record has been. It all goes back to when the Lions were still a fairly young franchise. The team was founded in 1929 in Portsmouth, Ohio, as the Spartans. Portsmouth, while surely a lovely town, wasn’t quite big enough to support a pro team in the young NFL. Detroit radio station owner George A. Richards bought the Spartans and moved the team to Detroit in 1934.
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Fighting Camels
November 27, 2019 @ 1:52 pm
Why are the Lions so bad?
MaxPower
November 27, 2019 @ 2:48 pm
They still have a team??