how did detroit and dallas become thanksgiving day football standards? how long have they been the ones to?
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The Lions played their first Thanksgiving game back in 1934.  The Lions were competing with the Tigers, and owner G.A. Richards wanted to do something to draw a larger crowd.  So, he held the game on Thanksgiving to avoid competing with the Tigers, and he also convinced NBC to broadcast the game nationwide.  The largest crowd during the previous season had been 15,000, and this first Thanksgiving Day game drew 26,000.\n\nhttp://www.detroitlions.com/document_display.cfm?cont_id=147421\n\nThe Cowboys were added in 1966 because Pete Rozelle was looking for a second team, and his good friend Tex Schramm volunteered the Cowboys.\n\nhttp://www.usafootball.com/articles/19-press-box/95-featured-articles/309-turkey-day-football-traditions.php
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The Lions and the Cowboys.
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It's tied between the Cowboys and 49ers with 5. Dallas got them in 1971, 77, 92, 93, and 95. San Francisco got theirs in 1981, 84, 88, 89, and 94. If the Steelers win the Super Bowl they'll be tied with the other two.
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I don't believe there are two teams that have been around that long who haven't played each other. If there is, I'd be very interested in knowing. We're talking NFL, right?\n(Packers played Bills in 2002)
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It was originally put into place in 2004.\nThe owners adopted a 15-yard penalty for excessive celebrations, the penalty will be in addition to fines previously in place for choreographed and multiplayer celebrations such as Joe Horn's hidden cell phone trick and Terrell Owens' end-zone autograph.\nhttp://www.nfl.com/news/story/7221738\n\n\nIt was modified this year :\nRule expanded to say:  Stay on your feet. No more push-ups, sit-ups, boat-rowing, snow angels or worm crawls.  The rulesmakers also outlawed using the ball as a prop, adding it to the "foreign or extraneous objects that are not part of the uniform."\nhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12070684/\n\n\nIf you are really looking for the history of the rule.  Back in 1984 a rule was introducted that said:\nUnsportsmanlike conduct will also by called for any prolonged, excessive, or premeditated celebration by individual players or a group of players. This is usually referred to as the "Mark Gastineau Rule" because a major reason why this change was made was to stop him from performing his signature "Sack Dance" every time after he sacked an opposing quarterback.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_NFL_season
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Injuries have taken their toll.  When they were healthy, they whooped Dallas.  They would have beaten the Bears too.  When the defense gets healthy, they'll be fine.  Hopefully they'll still be in the playoff hunt.
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Dallas Cowboys and the San Diego Chargers
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Chiefs. It was an old AFL tradition being revived by the NFL
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Well lets see ....   There is 2 things you never go against.\n\n1 The Cowboys on Turkeyday\n\nand \n\n2  Romo !!\n\nTB defense sucks.  Romo has a good receiving corps, even with TO in it.  Washington can play Defense when it wants to and Delhomme hasnt been that good this year.
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Well, yes and no.\nThe Celebrations have been around a very loooooong time. I think they really became popularized by Mark Gastineau of the Jets with each sack. Right there, thats at least 25 years ago.\n\nThe Lanbeau Leap by the Packers.  That was cool.  The Gatorade dunk, created by the Giants. That was cool.\nJust groups of guys going crazy celebrating a TD... Its part of the game. \n\nIts guys like T.O and Chad Johnson annoy me. Like they spend time thinking about what theyre gonna do. The proposing to the cheerleader, the eagle flap in the Dallas star back a few years...... That stuff is stupid.  Joe Horn was another one, against the Giants a few years back, when he pulled the cellphone out from under the goalpost.  \n\nThose things are just a slap to the face, rather than a mere celebration.
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I used to attend the Turkey Day game for 16 years in a row!  NO more!!  I haven't even put on any of my Lions caps or sweatshirts this year!! \n\nI watched them yesterday, because I wanted to see Harrington get his justified revenge on both the team and the fans!  I kept saying last year that he was too convenient of a scapegoat for the team!!! Now neither the fans, the team, the coaches, nor Matt Millen knows what to do because, "They don't have Joey Harrington to kick around anymore!"
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Garo Yepremian did it against the Vikings on November 13th, 1966.  He was the only Lion to do it until Jason hanson matched him in 1999, again against the Vikings.\n\nhttp://www.nfl.com/history/randf/records/indiv/fieldgoals
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Dallas Cowboys with 54.
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Detroit vs Dallas, Detroit in five games.
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The Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots
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Super Bowl Information\n\nSite: Ford Field - Detroit, Mich.\nDate: Feb. 5, 2006\nGame time: 6 p.m. EST - 3 p.m. PST
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I guess I don't understand....what happened to the Dallas Cowboys-Pittsburgh Steelers.  That rivalry was made in the 70's and never died.