This year, the Detroit Lions will celebrate its 86th year playing on Thanksgiving Day. However, there could be one notable change for the 2025 season.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told Pat McAfee on “The Pat McAfee Show” Friday that they are planning on slightly moving the kickoff time from its traditional 12:30 p.m. kickoff.
“We’re going to move,” Goodell said, before slightly correcting himself. “One little small change, we’re probably going to move from a 12:30 Eastern start to 1:00. We’ll go back to the traditional windows. So they’ll be 1, roll right into Dallas, and then roll into the primetime (game).”
It’s obviously not a huge shift, but it’s a notable one. There has typically been a significant gap between the end of the Lions’ 12:30 p.m. ET game and the start of the Cowboys’ 4:30 p.m. ET kickoff. Now, that time will be condensed.
So if you’re grabbing that second plate of Thanksgiving dinner in between games, you better jump grandma in the line so you don’t miss Dallas’ kickoff after the latest Lions victory.
(h/t @LionsRoyalty for the news tip)