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How A Sport And A Holiday Became Inseparable

Home, Thanksgiving and football.

For many American families, those three things are being celebrated this week, in varying degrees. But it hasn’t always been that way.

Karen Given ( @klgiven) from NPR’s Only A Game explains the history of the connection between football and Turkey Day.

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