You’ve got six teams playing on a short week on Thursday, another two playing on a short week in the Black Friday game, a full Sunday slate and finally Monday Night Football to cap it all off. And that’s before you consider the three West Coast teams facing noon kickoffs on the East Coast.

Football has long been a staple of Thanksgiving Day celebrations, and this year there will be three National Football League games on the holiday and one on Black Friday to watch.Shortly after the league's formation in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (it was renamed the NFL in 1922),