Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. My sincere wishes for all, is that it will be a happy, family, day. Oh, there is one more thing.  ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!

Football on Thanksgiving. Now that is American. I can't remember when there wasn't a game or two on, and here in Michigan, it's been tradition that it's the Lions.

Did you know the idea of playing football on Thanksgiving Day goes way back to 1876 – shortly after the game was invented – when Yale and Princeton began a yearly tradition of playing each other on that day.

But what we see today goes back to about 1945, when the Lions started hosting the game every year.

That’s almost 70 years of tradition. Eat turkey. Play football in the back yard – maybe, if you like snow - watch football on TV – definitely.

This year’s games include:

The Chicago Bears at the Detroit Lions – Kickoff at 12:30 a.m. Eastern Time (CBS)

The Philadelphia Eagles at the Dallas Cowboys – Kickoff at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (FOX)

The Seattle Seahawks at the San Francisco 49ers – Kickoff at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time (NBC)

The crazy thing about this year’s slate of games is that there will be no AFC teams playing. It’s the first time this has happened on Thanksgiving Day since the AFL and the NFL got together in 1970.

You get three divisional rivalries – but if you’re an AFC fan, you’re out of luck.

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