Thanksgiving Football

February 25, 1904, Appleton Post-Crescent

Wisconsin is a football-centric state, as we all know, so I found this article questioning the appeal of playing football games on Thanksgiving to be of great interest.  Now granted, this is 1904 and there is no television.  For that matter, there is no radio, so anybody wanting to see football must trudge out to the actual football field in person to view the game.  Moreover, there is no NFL and colleges are the hit with the football crowd.  At least for the upcoming season, after Lawrence University decided that Thanksgiving was out, it added further to the debate about ANY game being more important than the holiday.

But as we all know, football won out and now we have multiple pro games on Thanksgiving.  Weren't there three NFL games last Thanksgiving?  But now, the average fan can have his turkey and eat it, too, and never miss a down.