Is there a packer game on thanksgiving

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However, many years ago, the Packers played other games on the holiday. Most of the recent games have been against Detroit, but there are other games against other teams, many defunct, that were played in the s and s. Overall, the Packers are on Thanksgiving. Percentage-wise, they rank behind the Lions and ahead of the Buffalo Bills in terms of overall Thanksgiving records.

The Packers' first game on Thanksgiving was in , against the Hammond Pros. The Packers won, This game has the distinction of being the only time the Packers have ever been the home team on Thanksgiving. Afterwards, they have been the visitor in every other Thanksgiving game. The game against the Pros was the start of a game stretch in which the Packers would play 12 times on the holiday. They visited the Kansas City Blues in , winning The Packers then suffered their first loss on the holiday in , losing to the Pottsville Maroons.

The Packers then became the perennial opponent for the Frankford Yellowjackets in The two teams played each other the next five years on the holiday, splitting the matchups until the season. The Yellowjackets folded in After defeating Providence in and the Brooklyn Dodgers in on Thanksgiving, the Packers took a year off in They returned to the holiday in , losing to the Chicago Cardinals both times.

After this, the Packers went on a year hiatus from playing on Thanksgiving. In , the Portsmouth Spartans moved to Detroit, renamed themselves the Lions, and began the tradition of playing on Thanksgiving, which they have done every year since with the exception of the period around World War II.

The Packers then went to Detroit in , to begin a year run as the Lions' Thanksgiving opponent. As the Packers of the s were not among the best teams in the NFL, most of the games were blowouts.

In fact, the Lions won the first three games by the scores of , , and The Packers did win the game, but this was the only triumph on the holiday until the arrival of Lombardi in Lombardi turned the Packers around, and Green Bay won the and Thanksgiving matchups. The Lions, however, spoiled the Packers' dreams of an undefeated season in by winning on the holiday. They sacked Bart Starr 11 times and registered a safety as well as a defensive touchdown. Green Bay took its first lead in the third with a Pid Purdy field goal, then put the game away when Dunn hooked up with Rex Enright for the yard touchdown.

While eliminating the Yellow Jackets from the title chase, the Packers also kept their championship hopes alive with the win, only for the New York Giants to win their final three games to clinch the title. Thanksgiving contests in and were both defensive struggles. One year later, the two sides battled to a scoreless draw — marking the lone game the Packers did not win as they captured their first title in franchise history with a record.

Coming off back-to-back losses to the Cardinals and Giants, Green Bay got a pair of receiving touchdowns from Johnny Blood, then closed out the contest with scores from Herdis McCrary and Arnie Herber in a victory. With limited finances and no place to play after a fire at Frankford Stadium, the NFL forced the Yellow Jackets to play the majority of their season on the road.

The team played its last game in early November of that season and never returned. As for the Packers, they found Thanksgiving opponents on their East Coast swings for the next few seasons, downing the Steam Roller and Brooklyn Dodgers, plus a non-league win over the Staten Island Stapletons.

In and , the Packers played at Comiskey Park against the Cardinals, losing both.