Which NFL teams will have a happy Thanksgiving in 2025?
Three football games, per tradition since 2006, are on the schedule for the holiday. And fans should be treated to a feast.
The first course features an NFC North battle between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, followed by the second course between the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys before concluding with the final course, which sees the return of Joe Burrow for the Cincinnati Bengals against two-time MVP Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens in an AFC North clash.
Here’s the turkey day NFL schedule:
NFL Thanksgiving games 2025 schedule, times
Here are the three NFL games on Thanksgiving:
Lions start time Thanksgiving change 2025
You can’t have a Thanksgiving without a Lions game (or a Cowboys game). And for over four decades, Lions games on Thanksgiving always started at 11:30 a.m. Central time. But for the first time since 1982, that won’t happen. The start time for Lions-Packers is noon. It’s a small but noticeable change to the Thanksgiving schedule. Why the change?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell said on “The Pat McAfee Show” in April at the NFL Draft in Green Bay the start time was moved to align with a traditional Sunday kickoff and so the Thanksgiving games would all lead into the next.
What channels are the NFL games on Thanksgiving? TV, livestream
Stream Packers-Lions on Fubo
Stream Chiefs-Cowboys on Fubo
Stream Bengals-Ravens on Peacock
Black Friday NFL game
The NFL action continues on Friday. And Packers fans will be interested in this one. The NFC North-leading Chicago Bears play the Philadelphia Eagles in the now annual Black Friday game.
The game streams exclusively on Amazon Prime.
Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. at Lincoln Financial Stadium.
NFL standings
Here is the playoff picture for the NFC and AFC heading into the Thanksgiving games with six weeks left in the regular season. The top seven teams make the playoffs: the top four are division leaders and the next three are wild card teams.
NFC standings
AFC standings
NFL schedule games Week 13
Following the three Thursday games and the Black Friday contest, here’s the rest of the NFL schedule:
Sunday, Nov. 30
Monday, Dec. 1
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: What channels are the NFL games on today? Thanksgiving schedule, times
Reporting by Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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