Chiefs, Cowboys get major NFL announcement about Thanksgiving schedule

You can play to enjoy your turkey with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.

Through the television, that is. The NFL is putting the Chiefs on the Thanksgiving Day football calendar.

And in a tantalizing feast, it'll be the Chiefs going to Dallas to take on the Cowboys in the 4:30 p.m. ET window on Thanksgiving.

That's about as marquee of a matchup as the 2025 NFL could put together.

The Cowboys are "America's Team," the classically huge draw. The Chiefs, with Mahomes, are the NFL's modern huge draw.

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Together, they could set serious Thanksgiving viewership records.

Kansas City by that point in the season will be hoping to have put its tough Super Bowl defeat behind and be on the way toward contending for another Lombardi Trophy.

By Thanksgiving, Dallas should have Micah Parsons under a new, record-setting contract. The Cowboys will have to be at peak performance to contend in the high-powered NFC East.

The full NFL schedule release is Wednesday night, but the league hasn't held back on releasing big-time matchups ahead of time to raise the hype.

Chiefs-Cowboys on Thanksgiving? Doesn't get bigger than that.

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