{"id":110773,"date":"2020-11-12T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dont-be-a-turkey-cancel-the-lions-on-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:24:00","slug":"dont-be-a-turkey-cancel-the-lions-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-be-a-turkey-cancel-the-lions-on-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"#Don’t be a turkey, cancel the Lions on Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Detroit Lions have played a home game on Thanksgiving Day every year since 1934.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s time for that streak to end.<\/p>\n

With coronavirus spiking across the United States, and the holiday looming as an inflection point for things to get even worse as people travel<\/a>, students return from hotspot campuses and families hold gatherings, the NFL has an opportunity to send a clear message to the country that everything is not okay, and normal traditions cannot proceed as usual by canceling its full slate of games on the holiday. That would be Texans at Lions, Football Team at Cowboys, and Ravens at Steelers.<\/p>\n

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Everyone knows, though, that given the choice between doing the right thing and making money, the NFL will secure the bag every time. So, it\u2019s up to local authorities to weigh the situations in their own jurisdictions and figure out how to proceed.<\/p>\n

Detroit is the iconic home of the NFL on Thanksgiving, and the Lions are the one team out of the three holiday hosts that has not been allowing fans at its games. That might make it seem like calling off the Detroit game is the least urgent of the three, but it\u2019s Detroit that has the most reason to pull the plug on the NFL this Thanksgiving, and the greatest gain to be made from doing so.<\/p>\n

For one thing, if the Lions aren\u2019t allowed to play at Ford Field, there won\u2019t be a backlash of ticket-holders angered at having their holiday plans upended. When the people who would argue \u201cyou\u2019re restricting our choice as adults to take this risk\u201d out of the equation, it not only makes the political calculus easier, it allows for the reality of the situation to gain that much clearer of a focus.<\/p>\n