The NFL has stacked its 2025 Thanksgiving slate with six quality quarterbacks and the league's most storied holiday traditions. The Lions and Cowboys anchor Turkey Day as perennial participants, while the Packers, Chiefs, Ravens, and Bengals round out the tripleheader. Here's how each team has fared when the stakes are highest—on football's most important day.

Green Bay Packers

Green Bay's best Thanksgiving memory this century came against Detroit in 2007—the same opponent that would later hand the Packers their most lopsided defeat on the holiday.

The Packers dismantled the Lions 37-26 in Brett Favre's final season with the team. Favre was surgical, completing 31 of 41 passes for 381 yards and three touchdowns. Running back Ryan Grant added 101 rushing yards and a score. Donald Driver emerged as the offensive star with 10 catches for 147 yards, while Favre spread the wealth with touchdown passes to Greg Jennings and Ruvell Martin.

Green Bay outgained Detroit 481-331 and led 34-12 early in the fourth quarter before two Lions touchdowns made things momentarily interesting.

Detroit Lions

Revenge came cold on Thanksgiving 2013. With Aaron Rodgers sidelined by injury, the Lions dismantled Green Bay in one of the most lopsided performances in modern holiday football.

Matthew Stafford threw for 330 yards and three touchdowns while Reggie Bush and Joique Bell combined for 211 rushing yards and two scores. The game was tied at halftime's two-minute warning before Detroit exploded in the second half. Calvin Johnson opened the scoring after the break with a 20-yard touchdown reception. Ndamukong Suh added insult with a safety on Matt Flynn.

The Lions dominated total yardage 561-126—you're reading that correctly—and controlled the ball for more than 40 minutes. For an organization hunting division supremacy, this victory remains the sweetest of the century.

Kansas City Chiefs

The Chiefs have appeared on Thanksgiving exactly once this century: 2006, the first-ever prime-time Turkey Day contest.

Kansas City won 13-10 against Denver in a defensive struggle. Each team scored one offensive touchdown—Larry Johnson ran one in for the Chiefs in the second quarter, Sean Alexander caught one for the Broncos in the third. The Chiefs controlled the game with four Lawrence Tynes field goals, the longest from 34 yards. Johnson carried 34 times for 157 yards to power the Kansas City offense and control clock management.

Dallas Cowboys

The Cowboys have carved out a Thanksgiving dynasty, winning by at least 25 points in three consecutive years from 2006-2008. Tony Romo threw five touchdown passes against Tampa Bay in 2006.

The most recent standout came two years ago: a 45-10 demolition of Washington. The Commanders made it competitive early at 14-10 with Sam Howell's one-yard touchdown run with 1:51 left in the first half. Then the offense went silent.

Dallas exploded for 25 points in the fourth quarter. Dak Prescott threw touchdown passes to CeeDee Lamb and KaVontae Turpin. Defensive back DaRon Lamb capped the blowout with a 63-yard pick-six—his fifth of the season.

Prescott finished 22-of-32 for 331 yards and four touchdowns, distributing passes to 10 receivers. The victory marked Dallas's third straight win in a five-game streak that ultimately carried them to the NFC East crown.

Cincinnati Bengals

The Bengals' lone Thanksgiving appearance came in 2010 against the Jets—and it wasn't pleasant.

Cincinnati lost decisively, outgained 319-163. Carson Palmer threw a touchdown to Jordan Shipley with 43 seconds in the first half to give the Bengals a halftime lead, but the offense stalled from there. Palmer took a fourth-quarter safety to seal the defeat.

Cincinnati fell to 2-9 while New York improved to 9-2 en route to consecutive AFC Championship Game appearances.

Baltimore Ravens

The Ravens' best Thanksgiving memory came in 2013 against division rival Pittsburgh, a game defined by precision kicking and controversial sideline theater.

Justin Tucker made five field goals, all between 34 and 48 yards, to lead Baltimore to victory. Joe Flacco threw for 251 yards and a touchdown to Torrey Smith, who caught six passes for 93 yards. The Ravens led 10-0 at halftime and 19-7 after Tucker's fourth field goal early in the fourth quarter.

Pittsburgh mounted a late comeback. Jerricho Cotchery caught a one-yard touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger to make it 22-20, setting up dramatic final moments.

The game will be remembered for Jacoby Jones' 73-yard kickoff return in the third quarter—when Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin controversially stepped into Jones' path as the returner sprinted down the Steelers sideline.

The Ravens also won a memorable matchup against San Francisco in 2011, the inaugural "Harbaugh Bowl," though that contest was a defensive slog. The teams combined for just 423 yards of offense with only two plays gaining more than 20 yards. Flacco threw for just 161 yards in the victory.