Thanksgiving football traditions

I'm ready for the feats of strength..

Georgia baw getting worked.

That was funny as hell. lol

Tuck Feck.

Are you sure it wasn't your family finally realized they just didn't like each other?

Nah, it was still funny. :)

You are the dumbass. Only slightly above half of the games in this series were played on Thanksgiving.

Most of the remainder have been played on Friday .

God, you are clueless. It was Texas’s alumni on the infractions committee that blew the whistle on A&M all the while fully knowing that SMU, Baylor, Tech, OU and every other team they played also operated the same way. Including themselves.

Every SWC team paid players a small stipend to ensure they could make it home to see their families. All of them did. And all of them paid recruits that needed to be able afford a hotel to go on a recruiting trip. It never was large sums of money. It was legitimate to ensure poor players got a chance. A grand at the most. Some players used this to make payments on a car to go home when needed.

And you started losing so you called your alumni Charlie on the infractions committee. It’s one of the many reasons why you are hated. Those kids didn’t deserve that.

You did the exact same thing. We just weren’t a bitch when we lost to you. That the difference.

Soooo, your own program destroyed our game and our relationship. You were the infraction committee. Moron.

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Then a few college games over the years that played on Thanksgiving Day. Some great OU/Nebraska games were on TDay in the early 70's, including "the game of the century" in 1971

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OU played Nebraska on Thanksgiving day a total of five times... All between (inclusive) 1965 to 1972.

They hadn't played anyone on Thanksgiving since the 1930s before that... and they haven't played anyone on Thanksgiving day since 1972.

That is how impactful that 1971 game was in terms of associating Oklahoma and Nebraska with Thanksgiving day.

Some fun facts about the 1971 Game of the Century between Nebraska and OU.

Not so fun fact, OU lost. The box score was almost even but Nebraska turned the ball over once, OU had three.

The game only had two penalties called, one for each team for five yards.

The offensive coordinators for the game were Tom Osbourne and Barry Switzer. Lane Kiffin's dad Monte was the Nebraska defensive coordinator.

The game had 55 million viewers, the most viewers of any televised college football broadcast at the time. Also, the game was played at the same time as the Dallas Cowboys and LA Rams game.

The United States’ population was around 207 million and that there were only 65 million households nationwide.

The highest rated NFL game on Thanksgiving Day is only 42 million for the 2022 Dallas/Giants game. KC and Dallas is expected to hit 50 million this year.

The Governors bet a hundred pounds of Oklahoma peanuts against a hundred pounds of Nebraska beef.

Nebraska brought its own food to Norman to avoid the risk of food poisoning.

The IRS got involved due to the resale prices of tickets were going for up to $100.

Nebraska went on to beat Alabama for the National Title. OU beat Auburn to come in second.