Dallas now knows who they will face when families are sitting around the dinner table.
The Dallas Cowboys are slowly but surely finding out details about their 2025 regular season schedule. While the team will open the season against their chief rival and reigning Super Bowl champions the Philadelphia Eagles, there are 16 other games and 12 other opponents still to be slotted in.
Well, make that 11 other opponents as Dallas now knows when they will square off against the Super Bowl runner-ups. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will be coming to Dallas in late November to take on the Cowboys in their annual Thanksgiving Day game in the late afternoon slot.
Given the number of families gathered around the TV on the quintessential American holiday, that game is always a ratings juggernaut, no matter the record of the Cowboys or the the team they play. Of the 10 most-watched regular-season games in NFL history, five of them have included the Cowboys on Thanksgiving.
And three of those matchups featured an opponent with a .500 mark or worse. In last year’s Thanksgiving Day tilt, the Cowboys came in at 4-7 and the Giants had just a 2-9 mark. Yet it ranked as the sixth-most-watched regular-season game ever, with well over 38 million viewers.
This season, Dallas will face the Chiefs, who have appeared in five of the last six Super Bowls and won three of them. With two teams that the country loves (and loves to hate), the Thankgiving Day contest has the potential to shatter viewership records.
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