Granted they did not play as frequently as other non-DAL or DET teams (5 times before tonight) but incredibly they never got one Turkey Day game during that Montana/Young/Garcia era when they were arguably the NFL’s showcase teams

Like we never got a SF/DAL Thanksgiving when that was THE premier rivalry

Or Steve Young vs Barry Sanders

  • suid@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago
    1. the NFL gets huge TV ratings on Thanksgiving for the afternoon games because of the captive audience, and they weren’t going to waste a marquee 49ers/Cowboys matchup that would get huge ratings whenever it was played by playing it on Thanksgiving.

    I think that’s the key. As long as there were only 2 games, there was no need to schedule (waste) a marquee matchup - when the audience would come for just about anything.

    In 30+ years, I can’t remember an “exciting” matchup - some games were close, but still “meh” (just background noise and movement to distract folks from the food and the inane forced table chatter).