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Looks like quite a few people jumped the gun... the turkey day game will be on network TV, just as always.
http://dallascowboys.com/news.cfm?id...90A97A7D8A075F
Super Notes: Tagliabue Saves Thanksgiving
DETROIT - Not to worry about changing your Thanksgiving Day football watching tradition.
The Dallas Cowboys will continue to play in their traditional 3 o'clock time slot, according to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
There have been several reports over the past two weeks claiming the Cowboys and Redskins would kick off the NFL Network's Thanksgiving night TV schedule this year, which would lend national appeal to the network's foray into broadcasting NFL regular-season games.
But when delivering his state of the union address here Friday at Super Bowl XL, Tagliabue, without directly being asked, shot down the stories that have been suggesting otherwise.
When talking about the NFL's new Thursday-Saturday TV schedule, which will be ins uted late in the season, Tagliabue touched an additional game being played on Thanksgiving, saying, "Although the (Thursday-Saturday) package in some years will kick off on Thanksgiving night, we will continue to have the traditional Dallas and Detroit games on CBS and Fox. We'll have another game in a different city as the opening - as the third game on Thanksgiving - and our goal there would be to start a new tradition, which is to have a third game on Thanksgiving that would rotate around to different cities in the league who have been anxious for many years to host games."
Many Cowboys fans have been expressing concerns about the Thanksgiving Day game being played at night on the NFL Network since cable providers in many cities still don't subscribe to the league's network. But from the start, when the NFL first came up with the idea for a third Thanksgiving Day game, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he had no interest in giving away his 3 o'clock time slot to play in the night game.
Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple said Jones has always wanted to maintain the tradition of the Thanksgiving game, which has been played at Texas Stadium for the past 30 consecutive years and has become part of the team's lore.
The 2006 NFL schedule will not be released until late March or early April. But since the game will be on Fox this year, prime opponents for the holiday game would seem to be Tampa Bay or one of the NFC East teams. The Cowboys have not played Tampa Bay at Texas Stadium since the 2001 season opener, losing with rookie quarterback Quincy Carter starting, 10-6. That was the only time the Bucs have played at Dallas since 1990, when the teams played home and away.
