When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, it took just six years before the first American football game was played on the holiday. My question is, what took so long?

In what has most certainly been one of the most unusual years in memory, the nation will mark Thanksgiving once again on this fourth Thursday in November. It is part of a long tradition that has ...

Regardless of who you spend the holiday with or how full your belly gets, there is another tradition that remains constant year after year … Thanksgiving football. Those two words go together ...

This tradition is first credited to former president John F. Kennedy, who in 1963 said as a joke, “We’ll just let this one grow ... It’s our Thanksgiving present to him.” Watching American ...