When did the Thanksgiving tradition of watching football begin?

Question

It seems like it has been that way forever.

Answer 1

We have three factors here.
1. Thanksgiving is in the middle of football season.
2. Television was invented in the 1950's
3. Social Interaction was dropped from the lives of most people shorly afterwards.
Forever is about 50 years now. Thanksgiving has been here for about four hundred years. Football has been here about one hundred. Television about fifty. The lack of social interaction at family get togethers about twenty.

Answer 2

Many families enjoy watching the Thanksgiving Parade and Football.

They do some different activities to celebrate the Thanksgiving day. They parade in a public march or procession honoring a particular occasion. The mood of a parade may vary from joyous excitement to solemn dignity. Many parades have floats, music, marchers, and trained animals.

So, as football originated in the United States. It began to develop during the mid-1800's. The sport grew out of soccer and Rugby, two kicking games that were developed in England. Soccer is called football in many countries, but the game differs considerably from American football.

Football began to develop during the mid-1800's, when a game similar to soccer was played in the Eastern United States. The object of the game was simply to kick a round ball across the other team's goal line. The teams sometimes had 30 or more players.

The first game resembling present-day football was played in 1874, when a team from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, visited Harvard University. The Canadian team wanted to play the English game of rugby, which permitted running with the ball and tackling. Harvard preferred to play its soccerlike game, in which players advanced the ball mainly by kicking. The teams agreed to play two games, the first under Harvard rules and the second under McGill rules. Harvard liked McGill's rugby game so much that it introduced the sport to other Eastern colleges. Running and tackling soon became as important as kicking in the U.S. game.

Answer 3

ever since John Smith ran the option to avoid the cherokee blitz and go for the touchdown in the final seconds of the fourth quarter

Answer 4

I can only speak for myself...at my house when i was a kid...it started in the 70's

Answer 5

when football was invented.