NFL Thanksgiving games streaming: How to watch live

Thanksgiving is the season of gratitude, but it’s also the annual tradition of watching your dad and uncles yell at the TV so hard the refs can hear them.

As far as Thanksgiving holiday traditions go, the NFL is straight up cooking stuffing on Thanksgiving. The league has associated Thanksgiving games with sports since its early days in 1920. By 1934, the Detroit Lions became the holiday’s official host, and in 1966 the Dallas Cowboys joined the annual lineup, cementing the modern tradition.

This year’s slate is loaded: two division rivalries and the appearance of the Super Bowl runner-up Kansas City Chiefs, who are playing their first Thanksgiving game since 2006.

Here’s how to stream:

Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions

Kicking off the festivities is an NFC North showdown filled with playoff implications. The Packers and Lions last met in the season opener, when Green Bay stunned Detroit with a decisive win – a surprise given that the Lions entered the year with some of the highest Super Bowl odds in the league.

Now at 7-4 and facing a tough challenge against the 2-10 Giants, Detroit desperately needs it. They have a terrible end-of-season schedule, and they sit just outside the wild card picture at this point. Green Bay isn’t moving at all: The Packers are 7-3-1, hold only a half-game lead on Detroit and are still missing two games against the 8-3 Bears.

The NFC North is a pressure cooker right now, and only two teams are punching tickets to the playoffs from the division.

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If you have cable, the game airs on FOX. Cord-cutters can stream it for free on Tubi 12pm CT/1pm ET,

Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys

Following the afternoon matchup, the Dallas Cowboys will host a surprisingly resilient Kansas City Chiefs squad. Dallas is coming off a convincing win over the defending champion Eagles after blowing out a 21-0 deficit. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are on a roll after a comeback win against the Indianapolis Colts, one of the top teams in the AFC.

It has been a strange season for both the franchises. The Cowboys started the year by trading star edge rusher Micah Parsons to Green Bay after failing to reach agreement on his new contract – a move that surprised almost everyone. The Chiefs, perennial AFC West bullies, suddenly find themselves sitting in third place at 6-5. For a team that has made it to five of the last seven Super Bowls, it’s a troubling situation. Whether it’s aging prematurely or a crime that has become all too predictable, something is clearly wrong. Still, two strong wins in a row have kept him in the race.

Both teams desperately need this game to boost their wild card chances. The Cowboys, 5-5-1 and sitting in 10th place in the NFC, essentially need a win – although matchups against the Commanders and Giants give them a fighting chance. If any combination of Jacksonville, Buffalo, or the Chargers falter, the Chiefs are in a similar impasse, tied with the Steelers and Texans as the most likely contenders for the final AFC Wild Card spot.

Kickoff is on 3:30PM CT / 4:30PM ET on CBS, available to stream on Paramount+,

Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens

If you had told NFL fans a few weeks ago that this would be a primetime Thanksgiving headliner, they probably would have laughed. But the football gods have blessed us, and now we’re facing Joe Burrow vs. Lamar Jackson in an AFC North rivalry game under the national spotlight. That’s the only thing to be thankful for.

It has been a season that Bengalis would prefer to forget. Losing Joe Burrow in Week 2 to a Grade 3 turf toe injury – a silly-sounding name for a very real ligament tear in his big toe – derailed everything. Burrow is finally back, but at 3-8, Cincinnati doesn’t look remotely like the playoff run they expected.

The Ravens, on the other hand, were in bad shape early on. They started 1–5 before receiving a Week 7 bye, but since then, they have rattled off five consecutive wins to take control of the AFC North. That’s actually not a Herculean task given the state of the division: Cleveland and Cincinnati sit at 3-8, and Pittsburgh hasn’t been able to find consistency, going 2-3 in their last five.

Still, Baltimore is hot, and they’ll look to carry that momentum straight into another win to solidify their grip on the division. As far as Bengalis are concerned, they are not mathematically dead. If they win out – and Burrow stays healthy – they could finish 9-8 with a puncher’s chance to sneak into the postseason.

You can watch it on Peacock at 7:20 pm CT/8:20 pm ESTOr NBC if you have cable,