Factoid
With there being three games on Thanksgiving, that begs the question: Do teams tend to score more (or fewer) points with the advantage (or disadvantage) of playing three days early. Now that the NFL Network hosts Thursday games for half of the year, there more data that can be examined.
The result, as often is the case when you look into these kind of things, is a big yawn. Over the last four years, in all of the Thursday games, there have been average of 43.0 points scored. That’s exactly the same as the other games in the same time period.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
Scores in Thursday games, 2006-2010
Year Score
*2006 10-38 Tampa Bay at Dallas
2006 7-27 Cleveland at Pittsburgh
*2006 10-19 Denver at Kansas City
2006 24-14 San Francisco at Seattle
2006 7-13 Baltimore at Cincinnati
*2006 27-10 Miami at Detroit
2006 7-9 Minnesota at Green Bay
2007 27-37 Green Bay at Dallas
*2007 3-34 NY Jets at Dallas
2007 13-31 Denver at Houston
*2007 37-26 Green Bay at Detroit
2007 41-24 Pittsburgh at St. Louis
2007 16-24 Chicago at Washington
*2007 31-13 Indianapolis at Atlanta
*2008 20-48 Arizona at Philadelphia
*2008 9-34 Seattle at Dallas
2008 7-34 Oakland at San Diego
2008 34-31 NY Jets at New England
2008 34-30 Denver at Cleveland
2008 24-27 New Orleans at Chicago
2008 10-27 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh
2008 31-24 Indianapolis at Jacksonville
*2008 47-10 Tennessee at Detroit
2009 35-31 Indianapolis at Jacksonville
*2009 6-26 NY Giants at Denver
*2009 7-24 Oakland at Dallas
2009 42-17 San Diego at Tennessee
2009 24-17 Miami at Carolina
2009 19-13 NY Jets vs. Buffalo
2009 6-13 Pittsburgh at Cleveland
*2009 34-12 Green Bay at Detroit
2009 6-10 Chicago at San Francisco
2010 21-26 Baltimore at Atlanta
2010 16-0 Chicago at Miami
* -- Thanksgiving game.
—Ian Allan
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