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| Lions Host Traditional Thanksgiving Day NFL Game Against Patriots |
The Lions' Thanksgiving Day run started in 1934 as a marketing gimmick for owner G.A. Richards. At the time, baseball was still the 'National Pastime' and Richards' football team was overshadowed by the Detroit Tigers. He scheduled a contest against the Chicago Bears for Thanksgiving Day, convinced NBC Radio to carry it coast to coast and a tradition was born. Fans jammed the stadium and a nationwide audience desperate for entertainment tuned in. The more things change the more they stay the same—Thursday's game at Ford Field is already a sellout and a nationwide TV audience gorged on turkey and sick of dealing with relatives will tune in for gridiron action. They'll see a Detroit team that posted a 7-2-1 record against the spread try to break a horrible run of bad performances on Thanksgiving Day. The Lions have lost 8 of the last 9 Thanksgiving games and have been especially non-competitive in the last two losing to Green Bay 34-12 and to Tennessee 47-10. New England has also performed well against the spread this year going 5-4-1 and is coming off a win over the Indianapolis Colts. The Pats are tied with the New York Jets atop the AFC East at 8-2 and with the Jets taking on an underachieving Cincinnati team later in the day need to keep pace. Obviously a short week off of a tough game is a concern, but New England can't afford to 'phone in' a substandard performance. We respect the improvement in this Detroit team which has continued to compete despite starting quarterback Matthew Stafford missing most of the season due to injury. Having said that, this is a bad matchup for them against a motivated, veteran Patriots' team. Lions will be without their best running back, Jahvid Best, who is listed as 'doubtful' with turf toe. Hard to see an undermanned Detroit team keeping this game close and we look for New England to win and cover. 
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There's no shortage of tradition in the National Football League but few are as enduring as the 
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