A proposed tweaking of the Thanksgiving formula

[News Bot]

Despite the fact that the Lions, as expected, lost by 22 in Thursday's early game and the Cowboys, as expected, won by 17, we don't believe that these two traditional Thanksgiving hosts should lose their hammerlock on the fourth-Thursday-in-November games.Indeed,...

Source: ProFootballTalk.com

 

[KilrB]

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This game worked out really well for the Packers. It would have sucked though if they had to travel further or if Detroit was a more competitive team.

I wouldnt take it away from the lions, or at least not unless they become competive again. Its all they've got.

But the friking Cowboys! It was just 2 years ago when the Packers played them the week after Thanksgiving. The Cowboys had 3 home games in a row with T-day in the middle and the Packers had to show up after traveling the week before and play when the Cowboys were basically on a vacation for a month. What a joke that was and Suprise, suprise they won all 3 games in a row. How that pile to crap Jerry Jones is able to continually pull of BS moves like this I will never know.