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73-442: Telemundo Deportes is the programming division of NBC Sports Group , owned by NBCUniversal , that is responsible for the production of sports events and magazine programs that air on NBCUniversal's Spanish language television networks Telemundo and Universo and the streaming service Peacock . Originating as the former's sports division Deportes Telemundo from 1999 to 2015, it broadcasts an array of sports events, including

146-470: A bronze -colored statue of a nondescript turkey holding a football. In 2011, the trophies were discarded altogether and replaced by a commemorative plaque . Unlike the aforementioned "Turkey Leg Award", the Galloping Gobbler was normally awarded to only one player annually, however in 2016, co-winners were honored. For 2017, the Galloping Gobbler was permanently retired, and replaced with

219-554: A Minneapolis-based provider of digital services for youth and amateur sports organizations. The unit was renamed SportsEngine. The group purchased the All-American Bowl high school all star game in February 2019. In February 2020, it was reported that Golf Channel would re-locate its operations from Orlando to Stamford over the next 12 to 18 months. In January 2021, it was announced that NBCSN will cease operations by

292-419: A dedicated host team or any conference tie-in, meaning the league can place any game into the time slot. Since NBC took over the prime time game in 2012, divisional matchups have been normally scheduled, with the exceptions being in 2016, 2021 and 2022. In 2014, a series of changes to the broadcast contracts freed CBS from its obligation to carry an AFC team, and by 2018, the last vestiges of conference ties to

365-650: A division which oversaw Comcast's Golf Channel and Versus cable networks, as well as the regional sports network chain Comcast SportsNet . In February 2011, Comcast completed its acquisition of a majority stake in NBC Universal . Following the acquisition, plans were unveiled for the three networks to be subsumed by the NBC network's existing division NBC Sports , under the title NBC Sports Group, with Dick Ebersol as chairman. Mark Lazarus, formerly

438-655: A phased process that was expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2016. Around 70 employees, including production staff and on-air talent, were given a month to decide if they want to remain with NBC Deportes and relocate to Stamford, providing relocation packages to employees who opt to move and severance packages to employees who chose not to move and are unable to find other jobs within NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprises and Content; most positions within NBC Deportes that were based in

511-578: A prime exposure opportunity second only to the Super Bowl halftime show . It has remained a tradition for the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions to host the afternoon games dating several decades. Other teams eventually expressed interest in hosting Thanksgiving Day games. Lamar Hunt , the former owner of the Chiefs (who had hosted Thanksgiving Day games from 1967 to 1969 as an AFL team prior to

584-694: A series of ugly Cardinals losses in the three-game stretch, and opposition from the Kirkwood–Webster Groves Turkey Day Game (a local high school football contest) led to Dallas resuming regular hosting duties in 1978. With their resumption as a regular NFL Thanksgiving Day venue, the Cowboys requested and received an agreement guaranteeing the Cowboys a spot on Thanksgiving Day indefinitely. Since 1978, Thanksgiving games have been hosted in Detroit and Dallas every year, with Detroit in

657-403: A small silver figurine of a cartoonish turkey wearing a football helmet striking a Heisman-like pose. Much like Cleatus and Digger , the original Galloping Gobbler trophy reflected Fox's irreverent mascots, and went through several iterations. Unimpressed by its tackiness, Emmitt Smith famously threw the 2002 award into a trash can. In 2007, the kitschy statuette was replaced with

730-614: The 2004–05 season . On August 12, 2009, the division's production responsibilities were extended to sister cable network mun2 (now NBC Universo), when it carried an English language broadcast of a World Cup qualifier between the United States and Mexico national teams , which was broadcast as part of a one-day free preview available to most cable and satellite providers though was presented by NBC Sports; and furthermore in January 2010, when mun2 began airing Liga MX games under

803-781: The AFL of 1936 hosted one in its first season, which featured the Cleveland Rams , a future NFL team, and the 1940–41 incarnation of the American Football League played two games in 1940 on the earlier "Franksgiving" date. In 1951, the Packers began a thirteen-season run as the perpetual opponent to the Lions each year through 1963. In 1966, the Dallas Cowboys , who had been founded six years earlier, adopted

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876-637: The college football teams at Yale and Princeton began an annual tradition of playing each other on Thanksgiving Day. The University of Michigan also made it a tradition to play annual Thanksgiving games, holding 19 such games from 1885 to 1905. The Thanksgiving Day games between Michigan and the Chicago Maroons in the 1890s have been cited as "The Beginning of Thanksgiving Day Football." In some areas, most commonly in New England , high-school teams play on Thanksgiving, usually to wrap-up

949-726: The soccer matches from various international soccer leagues and the Olympic Games , among others. The division was originally formed in 1987 as Deportes Telemundo, which at first exclusively served as the sports division of Telemundo, with the acquisition of rights to soccer matches to select teams from the Mexican Primera División (now Liga MX ). Following NBC 's $ 2.7 billion purchase of Telemundo Communications Group on October 11, 2001, Deportes Telemundo began to gradually be integrated into NBC Sports, although it would maintain sports programming rights separate from

1022-661: The "AFC package" and televised inter-conference games in which the visiting team is from the AFC ( NBC from 1970 to 1997, and CBS since 1998) and the network with the "NFC package" (CBS from 1970 to 1993, and Fox since 1994). In 2006 , the third game in primetime originally aired on the NFL Network . In 2012 , NBC took over broadcasting the primetime game, and ever since all three broadcast networks with Sunday NFL rights carry one Thanksgiving Day game apiece. The first two games continue to be split between CBS and Fox, with CBS getting

1095-411: The "All-Iron Award", which is, suitably enough, a small silver iron , a reference to Phil Simms ' All-Iron team for toughness. The All-Iron winner also received a skillet of blackberry cobbler made by Simms' mother. Through 2006, the trophy was only awarded to one player annually. Occasionally, it was issued as a "group award". In 2008, Simms stated it was "too close to call" and named four players to

1168-454: The "Game Ball", a stylish, ornate football-shaped trophy, reminiscent of the tradition where game-used balls are typically awarded to players of the game. For 2019 and 2020 (coinciding with Fox's new partnership with WWE SmackDown ), the "Game Ball" was replaced by a WWE Championship Belt. The "Game Ball" returned in 2021. When the NFL returned to CBS in 1998 , they introduced their own award,

1241-437: The 12:30 p.m. ( EST ) Detroit "early" game, and Fox getting the 4:30 p.m. Dallas "late" game in even-numbered years, and Fox getting the "early" game and CBS the "late" game in odd-numbered years. In 2014, a system known as "cross-flex" was introduced, in which the two networks bound by conference restrictions, CBS and Fox, could carry games from the other conference as part of their Sunday afternoon package, including

1314-422: The AFC could showcase only one team on Thanksgiving, and the AFC team was always the visiting team. Since 2006, a third NFL game on Thanksgiving has been played in prime time . It originally aired on the NFL Network as part of its Thursday Night Football package until 2011, when the game was moved to NBC's Sunday Night Football package under the NFL's current television deals. The night game has never had

1387-697: The Bears played the Lions from 1934 to 1938 while the Cardinals switched to the Green Bay Packers for 1934 and 1935), Frankford Yellow Jackets , Pottsville Maroons , Buffalo All-Americans , Canton Bulldogs (even after the team moved to Cleveland they played the 1924 Thanksgiving game in Canton), and the New York Giants (1929–38, who always played a crosstown rival ). The first owner of

1460-478: The Cowboys contest. (Under league rules, only radio stations that carry at least 12 Cowboys games in a season are allowed to carry the Compass broadcast.) The participating teams also air the games on their local flagship stations and regional radio networks. The Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day game has regularly been the most watched NFL regular season telecast each year, with the Lions' Thanksgiving Day game usually in

1533-624: The English language U.S. broadcast rights through a separate agreement). The deal was extended on February 12, 2015, to include rights to the 2018 , 2022 and the 2026 FIFA World Cup . Through NBC's rights agreement with the National Football League (NFL), mun2 carried a Spanish simulcast of a Thanksgiving matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers on November 27, 2014; on February 1, 2015,

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1606-513: The Hialeah offices – with the exception of NBCDeportes.com digital staff, some tech operators employed with the sports unit and production and on-air staff for the late-night magazine program Titulares y Más , which will remain at the Telemundo headquarters – were eliminated in the move, necessitating the employee offers. Around 30 additional staffing positions were expected to be added alongside

1679-401: The Lions would stay on Thanksgiving Day for the 2009 season , but kept the issue open to revisit in the future. Conversely, the Dallas Cowboys, who typically represent a larger television draw, have had far fewer public calls to be replaced on Thanksgiving Day. One issue that has been debated is a perceived unfair advantage of playing at home on Thanksgiving Day. The advantage is given in

1752-582: The Lions, George A. Richards , started the tradition of the Thanksgiving Day game as a gimmick to get people to go to Lions football games, and to continue a tradition begun by the city's previous NFL teams . What differentiated the Lions' efforts from other teams that played on the holiday was that Richards owned radio station WJR , a major affiliate of the NBC Blue Network (the forerunner to today's American Broadcasting Company ); he

1825-409: The NFL adopted a new policy requiring players and teams to utilize only one helmet a season to address the league's new concussion protocol ; rather than sport an incomplete throwback look, the Cowboys instead wore their standard blue jerseys at home for the first time since 1963. In 2015, the Cowboys resurrected their 1994 white "Double-Star" jerseys only this time wore them with white pants as part of

1898-660: The NFL began branding the games as the Thanksgiving Classic . In 2022, the league changed the branding to the John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration in honor of head coach and broadcaster John Madden , who had died in December 2021. The concept of American football games being played on Thanksgiving Day dates back to 1876, shortly after the game had been invented, as it was a day that most people had off from work. In that year,

1971-535: The NFL's current scheduling formula, which has been in effect in its basic form since 2002, effectively prevented teams from the AFC North from playing at the Lions or Cowboys on Thanksgiving. The formula had the AFC North playing at Dallas or at Detroit in years when other divisions were slated to fill the AFC slot on Thanksgiving. These teams, under the television contracts in place at the time, could only play in

2044-663: The Salvation Army began the tradition of kicking off its Christmas Kettle campaign during halftime of the Dallas game. The campaign kickoff event includes a halftime show by a major recording artist, with halftime concerts also eventually being added to the Detroit game (which traditionally supports the United Way 's Live United campaign ) and the night game. The NFL has treated the Thanksgiving halftime slots as

2117-429: The Thanksgiving games resumed in 1945, only the Lions' annual home game would remain on the Thanksgiving holiday. The All-America Football Conference and American Football League , both of which would later be absorbed into the NFL, also held Thanksgiving contests, although neither of those leagues had permanent hosts. Likewise, the AFL of 1926 also played two Thanksgiving games in its lone season of existence, while

2190-560: The Thanksgiving games were eliminated (although in practice games on Fox have remained all-NFC contests). The originally scheduled 2020 primetime game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers was postponed to the following Wednesday, December 2, after multiple Baltimore players and staff tested positive for COVID-19 in the days before the game. This thus marked the first time no primetime contest

2263-416: The award has gained notoriety. Madden brought the award to Fox in 1994 , and it continued through 2001. Because of the loose and informal nature of the award, at times it has been awarded to multiple players. On one occasion (1994) it was given to players from both teams. When John Madden left Fox after 2001, Fox introduced a new award starting in 2002, named the Galloping Gobbler . It was represented by

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2336-524: The behest of then-Commissioner Pete Rozelle , the St. Louis Cardinals replaced Dallas as a host team (Dallas then hosted St. Louis in 1976). Although the Cardinals, at the time known as the "Cardiac Cards" due to their propensity for winning very close games, were a modest success at the time, they were nowhere near as popular nationwide as the Cowboys, who were regular Super Bowl contenders during this era. This, combined with St. Louis's consistently weak attendance,

2409-500: The brand Fútbol Mexicano (most of which aired as English language simulcasts of Telemundo's Fútbol Estelar soccer telecasts). On October 28, 2012, NBC Sports also announced a three-year, $ 250 million deal to televise Premier League matches, giving Telemundo and mun2 the Spanish language rights (with the latter simulcasting games broadcast in English on NBCSN ) beginning with the 2013–14 season, replacing ESPN and Fox Soccer as

2482-503: The contract, mun2 carried the 2014 Toyota 120 —the season opener of Mexico's NASCAR Toyota Series at Phoenix Raceway —on February 28, 2014. On October 22, 2011, Deportes Telemundo acquired the Spanish language rights to broadcast FIFA tournaments beginning 2015 for around $ 600 million, replacing Univision as the Spanish language broadcaster of events such as the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1970 ( Fox acquired

2555-543: The current NFL, attempted to settle its championship over Thanksgiving weekend; after the game ended in a tie, eventually all three teams in the league claimed to have won the title. Members of the Ohio League , during its early years, usually placed their marquee matchups on Thanksgiving Day. For instance, in 1905 and 1906 the Latrobe Athletic Association and Canton Bulldogs , considered at

2628-537: The early time slot and Dallas in the late afternoon slot. Because of television network commitments in place through the 2013 season, to make sure that both the AFC-carrying network (NBC from 1965 to 1997, and CBS since 1998) and the NFC-carrying network (CBS from 1956 to 1993, and Fox since 1994) got at least one game each, one of these games was between NFC opponents, and one featured AFC-NFC opponents. Thus,

2701-405: The end of the year, and that its programming was slated to be moved to USA Network and Peacock . In August 2021, it was announced that NBC Sports' technology and digital operations would be re-aligned under the new division NBC Sports Next. NFL on Thanksgiving Day Since its inception in 1920, the National Football League (NFL) has played games on Thanksgiving Day , patterned upon

2774-610: The existing employees upon the move to Stamford, while the division will invest heavily in the division's infrastructure and sets for its news and analysis programs. The announced move to Stamford, Connecticut was cancelled in November 2015. The division would change its name from NBC Deportes to Telemundo Deportes in 2016. Telemundo Deportes moved into Telemundo Center in Miami when it opened in April 2018. Telemundo Deportes holds

2847-471: The first color television broadcast of an NFL game was the Thanksgiving Day match between the Lions and the Baltimore Colts . Starting in 1970 , the Detroit "early" game and the Dallas "late" game initially rotated annually as intra-conference ( NFC at NFC) and inter-conference ( AFC at NFC) games. This was to satisfy the then-television contract balance between the network holding the rights to

2920-504: The first "Turkey Leg Award", for the game's most valuable player. Pursuant to its name, it was an actual cooked turkey leg, and players typically took a celebratory bite out of the leg for the cameras during post-game interviews. Reggie White of the Eagles was the first recipient. The gesture was seen mostly as an amusing gimmick tied to the holiday and relating to Madden's famous multi-legged turkeys and turduckens . Since then, however,

2993-444: The form of an extra day of practice for the home team while the road team has to travel to the game site. This is true for most Thursday games, but with the night games, the visitor can travel to the game site after practice on Wednesday and hold the final walkthrough the following morning. With the introduction of the prime time game, which effectively allows all teams in the league an opportunity to play on Thanksgiving Day, along with

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3066-471: The game, the Lions had lost their last four Thanksgiving Day games, and opinions amongst the media had suggested removing the Lions and replacing them with a more attractive matchup. The team also required an extension to prevent a local television blackout . The Lions were routed by the Tennessee Titans 47–10, en route to the team's 0–16 season . NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed that

3139-791: The group. In June 2011, NBC Sports Group purchased back the Alli Sports share held by MTV Networks Music Group in June 2011 and previously sold by NBC Sports to them in 2008. On January 1, 2012, Versus was renamed NBC Sports Network . On December 9, 2012, Yahoo and the NBC Sports Group announced a content and promotional deal combining Yahoo Sports’ original reporting expertise, coverage of big events, Rivals’ college content and popular fantasy sports products with NBC Sports Group's growing digital assets, and significant television promotion and integration. On March 18, 2013, nearly all of

3212-427: The head of Turner Entertainment Group , was named president of NBC Sports Cable Group. Comcast Sports Group president Jon Litner assumed the role of president of Comcast SportsNet and Versus, while former NBC Sports executive vice president Mike McCarley was named president of Golf Channel. John Miller was named executive vice president of NBC Sports and Versus. In May 2011, Lazarus took over for Ebersol as chairman of

3285-505: The historic playing of college football games on or around the November holiday. The NFL's Thanksgiving Day games have traditionally included one game hosted by the Detroit Lions since 1934, and one game hosted by the Dallas Cowboys since 1966 (with two exceptions in 1975 and 1977). Since 2006, a third prime time game has also been played on Thanksgiving Day. Unlike the two afternoon games, this game has no fixed teams. In 2001,

3358-681: The holiday in 1969 (while the team was still an AFL franchise in San Diego), appeared for the first time as an NFL member in 2017. * All-America Football Conference team. Since 1989, informal and sometimes lighthearted Most outstanding player / MVP awards have been issued by the networks broadcasting the respective games. Running back Emmitt Smith holds the record for most Thanksgiving MVPs with five (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2002), followed by Tony Romo with four (2006, 2007, 2009, 2013). Among players not from Detroit or Dallas, Josh Allen , Drew Brees and Brett Favre each hold three. Voting on

3431-414: The introduction of year-long Thursday Night Football ensuring all teams have one Thursday game during the regular season (thus negating any on-field advantages or disadvantages to being selected for Thanksgiving Day), the calls for the Lions and the Cowboys to be removed have diminished. DuMont was the first network to televise Thanksgiving Day games in 1953 ; CBS took over in 1956 , and in 1965 ,

3504-606: The latter network also began to expand its sports coverage, primarily in preparation for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the start of the division's contract with FIFA —whose first events included the 2015 U-20 World Cup and Women's World Cup . It was announced in August 2015 that the division would migrate its operations from Telemundo's headquarters in Hialeah, Florida , to NBC Sports Group's facility in Stamford, Connecticut , in

3577-539: The league's Color Rush , a trial run of specially-designed, monochromatic jerseys to be worn during Thursday games. In 2022, after the NFL lifted the one-helmet rule, the Cowboys resumed wearing the throwback navy "Double-Star" jerseys on Thanksgiving. In 2001–2004, and again in 2008, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2023 the Detroit Lions have worn throwback uniforms based on their very early years. For 2019 and 2022, Detroit wore its silver Color Rush uniforms. In 1997,

3650-400: The league's U.S. broadcasters; prior to the arrangement, NBC had proposed Telemundo for use as a Spanish-language simulcast partner for select sporting events for years after the 2001 purchase. On July 23, 2013, NBC re-acquired rights to NASCAR beginning in the 2015 season, and announced that it would include the option to air Spanish-language broadcasts on Telemundo and mun2. As a prelude to

3723-605: The main NBC broadcast network and its sister cable channels. Under NBC (which ironically lost the rights to the league that year to ABC ), on August 20, 2002, Telemundo signed a three-year agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Spanish language broadcast rights to 15 NBA and up to ten WNBA regular season games; Telemundo and the NBA did not renew the deal upon its expiration following

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3796-477: The merger), lobbied heavily in favor of his team hosting a game on the holiday. When the NFL adopted a third, prime time game, the Chiefs were selected as the first team to host such a contest, but the team was not made a permanent host, and Hunt's death shortly after the 2006 contest ended the lobbying on behalf of the team. The host issue came to a head in 2008, focusing particularly on the winless Lions. Going into

3869-426: The move; half the states recognized the move and the other half did not. This complicated scheduling for Thanksgiving games. Incidentally, the two teams were also exploring the possibility of a merger at the time. ) Because of the looming World War II and the resulting shorter seasons, the NFL did not schedule any Thanksgiving games in 1941, nor did it schedule any in the subsequent years until the war ended in 1945. When

3942-406: The operations for NBC Sports and NBCSN began to be based out of a purpose-built facility in Stamford, Connecticut . The move was made mainly to take advantage of tax credits given by the state of Connecticut , which NBC has taken advantage of previously with the daytime talk shows of its sister broadcast syndication division . Telemundo Deportes , a dedicated Hispanic sports production unit,

4015-476: The potential for CBS to broadcast an NFC vs. NFC game on Thanksgiving Day. From that year through 2016, CBS carried all-NFC contests every year on Thanksgiving Day, and in 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2023, no AFC teams played in any of the Thanksgiving Day games. To date, the NFL has never assigned an AFC road game to Fox on Thanksgiving Day. Westwood One most recently held national radio broadcast rights to all three games, with Compass Media Networks sharing rights to

4088-430: The practice of hosting Thanksgiving games. It is widely rumored that the Cowboys sought a guarantee that they would regularly host Thanksgiving games as a condition of their very first one (since games on days other than Sunday were uncommon at the time and thus high attendance was not a certainty). This is only partly true: Dallas had in fact decided on their own to host games on Thanksgiving; team president Tex Schramm

4161-466: The rebranded NBC Universo served as the Spanish-language broadcaster of Super Bowl XLIX (which NBC held rights to broadcast that year). On January 13, 2015, NBCUniversal promoted Deportes Telemundo senior vice president of sports Eli Velázquez to the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Sports within the company's Hispanic Enterprises and Content unit, following the departure of

4234-602: The regular-season. By the time football had become a professional event, playing on Thanksgiving had already become an institution. Records of pro football being played on Thanksgiving date back to as early as the 1890s, with the first pro–am team, the Allegheny Athletic Association of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania. In 1902, the National Football League , a Major League Baseball -backed organization based entirely in Pennsylvania and unrelated to

4307-403: The respective awards is typically done informally by the announcing crew and/or producers, and criteria are loose. Noteworthy statistical accomplishments weigh heavily, and "group" awards are not uncommon. The announcement of the winner(s), and the presentation of the award is normally done immediately following the game, during post-game network coverage. In 1989 , John Madden of CBS awarded

4380-578: The sports broadcast rights to several sporting events (with much of its programming available through agreements with soccer leagues and organizations) for broadcast on Telemundo and Universo, and also produces sports news, magazine and analysis programs that mostly air on Telemundo. Telemundo used to produce Rumbo al Mundial with the Conmebol Qualifying Soccer games for the World Cup, this was huge with Spanish speaking audiences but

4453-771: The sports division's executive vice president Jorge Hidalgo (whose position was eliminated as part of restructuring of the division). On May 16, 2015, during Telemundo's 2015–16 upfront presentation in New York City , it was announced that Deportes Telemundo would be replaced by a new division initially known as NBC Deportes ; the new division was formed as a branch of the English-language NBC Sports division, and be responsible for sports content for Telemundo, NBC Universo and related digital platforms. While it retained all existing sports telecast rights and programs aired by both Telemundo and NBC Universo,

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4526-797: The third (night) game. With changes in the scheduling practices in 2014 ("cross-flexing"), the division is no longer barred from participating in one of the afternoon games. Even with cross-flexing available, an AFC North team has yet to play at Detroit or Dallas on Thanksgiving, and all of the AFC North's appearances have thus far been in the night game. The Los Angeles Rams have the longest active appearance drought of any team, with their last appearance coming in 1975. Since 2010, several appearance droughts have ended. New Orleans , Cincinnati , Baltimore , Houston , and Carolina all played their first Thanksgiving games during this time frame. San Francisco likewise played their first Thanksgiving game since 1972 in 2011. The Los Angeles Chargers, who last played on

4599-679: The time to be two of the best teams in professional football (along with the Massillon Tigers ), played on Thanksgiving. A rigging scandal with the Tigers leading up to the 1906 game led to severe drops in attendance for the Bulldogs and ultimately led to their suspension of operations. During the 1910s, the Ohio League stopped holding Thanksgiving games because many of its players coached high school teams and were unavailable. This

4672-506: The top five. (Winning teams are denoted by boldface type; tie games are italicized.) Of current NFL franchises. This includes American Football League (AFL) games; however, it does not include All-America Football Conference (AAFC) games. The last currently active franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving through 2024 is the Jacksonville Jaguars , who joined the league in 1995 . An idiosyncrasy in

4745-565: The trophy; he then gave the award to several people every year until 2013, after which he reverted to a single MVP in 2014. Simms was removed from the broadcast booth for the 2017 season in favor of Tony Romo , who did not carry on the tradition. Instead, the " Chevrolet Player of the Game" award was extended to CBS' Thanksgiving Day game. As in CBS' regular Sunday afternoon NFL coverage as well as Fox's regular NFL coverage, Chevrolet will donate money in

4818-480: The weekend, and in some cases also involved classic field logos at the stadiums. From 2001 to 2003, Dallas chose to represent the 1990s Cowboys dynasty by wearing the navy "Double-Star" jersey not seen since 1995 . In 2004 , the team wore uniforms not seen since 1963 . In 2009, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the AFL , both Dallas and Oakland played in a "AFL Legacy Game." In 2013, the Cowboys intended to wear their 1960s throwbacks, but chose not to do so after

4891-568: Was able to negotiate an agreement with NBC to carry his Thanksgiving games live across the network. During the Franksgiving controversy in 1939 and 1940, the only two teams to play the game were the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles , as both teams were in the same state ( Pennsylvania ). (At the time, then- U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to move the holiday for economic reasons and many states were resistant to

4964-476: Was also announced by Joe Uva, Chairman of NBCUniversal Hispanic Group, and chairman Mark Lazarus at May 2015 Upfronts . Telemundo Deportes was also in process of moving to the NBC Sports Group facility in Stamford. NBC Sports Group formed NBC Sports Films in 2015 for long form sports documentaries for the sports group's platforms. The first film was Center of Attention: The Unreal Life of Derek Sanderson which

5037-859: Was broadcast on NBC Sports Network June 8 after Game 3 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals . On October 22, 2015, it was announced that Universal Sports Network would close down on November 16, 2015, and that NBC Sports would inherit the network's portfolio of sports rights for its own networks and channels. The Group launched two channels just for the 2016 Olympic games, NBC Olympic Basketball and NBC Olympic Soccer. In May 2016, NBC Sports Group broke out its streaming technology unit into an entity known as Playmaker Media, to serve other NBCUniversal properties as well as third-party clients (thus competing with BAMTech ). In June 2016, NBC Sports Group launched NBC Sports Gold , an over-the-top streaming service containing subscription-based packages focused on different sports. In July 2016, NBC Sports Group acquired Sport Ngin,

5110-439: Was enticed by the publicity that would come with a permanent nationally televised contest and volunteered to be host when the NFL proposed the second Thanksgiving game. Schramm also anticipated a home field advantage in that the shorter week would favor the home team because the opponent would not only lose three days of practice but additional time traveling to Dallas that the Cowboys could use to prepare. In 1975 and 1977, at

5183-435: Was held since 2005. On November 11, 2022, the league announced that the Thanksgiving games would be branded as the "John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration", honoring the memory of head coach and broadcaster John Madden . Madden called 20 Thanksgiving games during his broadcasting career. Since 2001 teams playing on Thanksgiving have worn throwback uniforms on numerous occasions. In 2002, it extended to nearly all games of

5256-590: Was not repeated for the 2020 World Cup Qualifier in Qatar. It also produces several specials in conjunction with organizations to which NBC Sports maintains programming agreement such as the National Football League (NFL). Events which are held by NBC Sports for their English language channels are designated in Italics. NBC Sports Group The unit has its origins in Comcast Sports Group,

5329-733: Was not the case in other regional circuits: in 1919, the New York Pro Football League featured a Thanksgiving matchup between the Buffalo Prospects and the Rochester Jeffersons . The game ended in a scoreless tie, leading to a rematch the next Sunday for the league championship. Several other NFL teams played regularly on Thanksgiving in the first eighteen years of the league, including the Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals (1922–33;

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