The Turkey Bowl

A something urbanite is pulled back to his rural hometown by his high school buddies on Thanksgiving to finish The Turkey Bowl - an epic football game against their cross town rivals that was snowed out fifteen years prior. Explore popular and recently added TV series available to stream now with Prime Video. Start your free trial.

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The Rock Pile Bad Seeds of Loving Spring. Ronnie Best Matt Jones Maryland is home to one of the Oldest rivalries nationally, also known to be two of the oldest rivalries in the Southeastern United States. In Massachusetts, where high school football is not nearly the draw it is in other parts of the country, the Thanksgiving Day game is a long-standing tradition that brings out thousands of alumni and other fans.

Virtually every school in the Bay State has a traditional rival and the holiday game is a focal point for all of them, no matter how unsuccessful the regular season may have been.

Inter-city High School rivalry between the two Lynn public high schools. The longest-running high school football rivalry in the South takes place each year between Woodberry Forest and Episcopal High School of Alexandria, Virginia. The schools first played against each other in and have competed in over a hundred consecutive games.

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The th contest, which Woodberry won, took place in , drew nearly 15, spectators, and was featured on ESPN. Unorganized groups have also been known to partake in American football on Thanksgiving. These informal matches are usually known as a Turkey Bowl not to be confused with some high school football games that also use the name "Turkey Bowl", see above , and with Turkey Bowling. These games are usually unofficiated with a flag football , street football , or touch football format.

While the games themselves are not generally nationally known, Turkey Bowls hold importance for those who participate and it is not uncommon for rivalries to last for decades.

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Thanksgiving weekend historically marks the end of the college football regular season, before conference championships and bowl games begin play in December the Army—Navy Game is the lone exception. Today, this is only true for the top-level NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , where it has become a tradition to play a fierce rival on the last week of the regular season. Other college football sanctioning bodies end their seasons well before Thanksgiving. After new conference rules that required all games to be played on college campuses, the Thanksgiving Day tradition was temporarily suspended in , but then reinstituted in spurts starting in and continuing through the s.

The University of Michigan made it a tradition to play annual Thanksgiving games, holding 19 such games from to Yale and Princeton began an annual tradition of playing against each other on Thanksgiving Day starting in The two schools merged in The Turkey Day Classic , a college football game between Alabama State University and Tuskegee University , has been played on Thanksgiving Day annually from to and again since ; as such, it has historically been known as the "Turkey Day Classic.

Tuskegee University pulled out of the contest after they were replaced by Stillman College in the contest , and Alabama State did the same from to , deciding to move its homecoming to the Saturday before Thanksgiving; in both cases, the NCAA football tournaments prompted the schools to move the end of their seasons to before Thanksgiving so that they would be able to compete for the national championship should they qualify.

The establishment of the Celebration Bowl for historically black schools allowed the Turkey Day Classic to resume; it will be held against conference rival Mississippi Valley State in The frequent changing of conferences stemming from the earlys realignment of NCAA teams and conferences complicated the numerous rivalries that traditionally play Thanksgiving weekend. While collegiate games have been played on Thanksgiving Day itself with perhaps the most notable being the Nebraska-Oklahoma game of , the vast majority of the current traditional Thanksgiving weekend college football games listed above are played on the Friday or Saturday after the holiday.

Texas, as previously mentioned, has had more or less of a permanent spot on the night of the holiday itself since at least Professional football teams and leagues have played on Thanksgiving from the start, with pro leagues and teams having played on Thanksgiving since the s. It carried over when Buffalo and Rochester, two members of the New York Pro Football League which had held its championship on Thanksgiving , and the Ohio League , which traditionally held its marquee matchups on Thanksgiving, combined into the NFL upon its founding in , and as such, the NFL has played on Thanksgiving ever since.

The Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys have played home games on Thanksgiving since and , respectively, in a traditional series of NFL games. Beginning in , the NFL added a third game on Thanksgiving night with a rotating host team. The difference between the Thanksgiving and Labour Day games is that the Thanksgiving Day games do not have the same matchups each year; however, like its American counterpart, one of the games has a regular host in the CFL's case, the Montreal Alouettes.

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Coincidentally, both the Grey Cup , the CFL's championship game, and the Vanier Cup , the championship of Canadian college football, are both traditionally played on the fourth weekend in November, which amounts to the week before or the week after American Thanksgiving. The World Football League originally planned to hold its championship game, World Bowl 1 , the day after Thanksgiving in ; the business failures of the season led to the league reorganizing the playoff structure and pushing the World Bowl one week back although the WFL regularly played on Thursdays during the regular season, it instead split its semifinals between the day before Thanksgiving and the day after.



Had the United States Football League completed its move to autumn for the season , it would have played one of its games on Thanksgiving a game featuring the Tampa Bay Bandits at the Memphis Showboats was scheduled for that night , [46] but the league suspended operations prior to the season and, even if it had survived, the Bandits went bankrupt before the season would have been played.

The Fall Experimental Football League had scheduled its championship for the day before Thanksgiving Day , in Brooklyn, but the game was cancelled after the season was shortened. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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