{"id":515048,"date":"2022-11-24T03:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/thanksgiving-football-intertwined-american-joys\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T03:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:23:53","slug":"thanksgiving-football-intertwined-american-joys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanksgiving-football-intertwined-american-joys\/","title":{"rendered":"#Thanksgiving &#038; football: Intertwined American joys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40e1e45c015\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40e1e45c015\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thanksgiving-football-intertwined-american-joys\/#%E2%80%9CThanksgiving_football_Intertwined_American_joys%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Thanksgiving &#038; football: Intertwined American joys&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThanksgiving_football_Intertwined_American_joys%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Thanksgiving &#038; football: Intertwined American joys&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>The\u00a0Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving without football, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> and the holiday have now become so intertwined that one almost wonders how they managed it.<\/p>\n<p>The most American holiday and the most American sport \u2014 both American inventions with only limited uptake overseas \u2014 are joined at the hip, from high-school games in the morning to the NFL broadcasts that provide a daylong backdrop to family gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>If Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, whose famous, highly idealized painting of the Pilgrims celebrating at Plymouth has done so much to define our image of the day, were to take up the topic of Thanksgiving again, she might be tempted to paint the Dallas Cowboys lining up for a third-and-five play at a packed AT&amp;T Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Like the best traditions, the association of Thanksgiving and football arose organically, is very old, has a local element and has layered memory atop memory down through the decades.<\/p>\n<p>By now, it\u2019s almost pointless to ask why the holiday and football go together. The answer, more or less, is that it\u2019s almost always been thus.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-520.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth.\" class=\"wp-image-24772792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-520.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-520.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-520.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth by Jennie Brownscombe.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Fine Art Images\/Heritage Images\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yale and Princeton put Thanksgiving football on the map beginning in 1876, when they played a game in the New York area (Yale won by a resounding 2\u20130). Soon enough, the annual game became an obsession that drew tens of thousands. By 1893, the\u00a0New York Herald\u00a0was writing: \u201cIn these times Thanksgiving Day is no longer a solemn festival to God for mercies given. It is a holiday granted by the state and the nation to see a game of football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Various professional leagues began playing on the holiday, and so did high schools.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts, the Wellesley Raiders and Needham Rockets have played since 1882, Boston Latin School and English High School since 1887. Boston Latin and English played during the world wars and the Spanish Flu, until the coronavirus ended the long run of continuous annual games in 2020. There are dozens of examples from all around the country of teams playing one another on Thanksgiving for 100 years or more.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-521.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A general view of the video scoreboard displaying the Happy Thanksgiving message is seen during a regular season Thanksgiving Day NFL football game.\" class=\"wp-image-24772807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-521.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-521.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-521.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Thanksgiving game as we now know it began in 1934 with a Detroit Lions home game.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The NFL played its first game on the holiday in 1920 (Akron Pros 7, Canton Bulldogs 0). The Thanksgiving game as we now know it arose in 1934, when the Detroit Lions began playing home games on the day.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Radio broadcast the initial, sold-out game between the 10-1 Lions and 11-0 Chicago Bears. It was a huge hit. After Detroit took a lead into halftime behind two Ace Gutowsky touchdowns, Chicago pulled out a thrilling 19-16 victory on the strength of a two-yard pass from Bronko Nagurski.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys grabbed their own piece of Thanksgiving in 1966. The team\u2019s owner wanted more publicity for the young franchise, and the first game drew 80,000 fans. The Cowboys have played at home on the holiday continuously since then, with the exception of two years in the 1970s when the NFL believed (erroneously) that it could boost the St. Louis Cardinals with games on the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a third game has been added to the NFL schedule, lest too much time pass on the day without a game on TV.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-516.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Fans wear their holiday hats during the NFL football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys.\" class=\"wp-image-24772817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-516.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-516.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/lowry-thanksgiving-516.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Fans wear their Thanksgiving hats during the football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys in 2014.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Icon Sportswire\/Corbis\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising that America\u2019s great folk holiday and festival of abundance has become joined to its most popular, wildly entertaining game.<\/p>\n<p>As Melanie Kirkpatrick notes in her book,\u00a0\u201cThanksgiving<em>: <\/em>The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience,\u201d people in the 19th century were already wringing their hands about football becoming too large a part of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Chicago Tribune\u00a0asked high-profile Chicagoans to share their views of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriateness of football\u2019s role. A clearly very wise rabbi opined, \u201cA good God will delight in a joyful, manly people and accept the shout of victory won in manly contest as a thanksgiving offering.\u201d He added, \u201cThere is a time for everything: a time to pray and a time to play.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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