San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks: Thanksgiving Day Football 2023
In the best matchup of the day, we’ll have a battle for the NFC West lead between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks. If you are like me, you won’t be reading this because you’ve already succumbed to your food coma and are napping by now. This is why I had to make sure to get this post written hours and hours ago. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Day and are enjoying the fruits of the labor that went into the preparation and creation of your feast day meals.
Thanksgiving Day Football - Week 12
San Francisco 49ers (7-3) at Seattle Seahawks (6-4)
Kickoff: 6:20 PM MT on November 23, 2023
Location: Lumen Field in Seattle, Washington
49ers vs. Seahawks Prediction
In partnership with DraftKings Sportsbook, we will get to do a lot of picks this year. Straight-up, against the spread, and over/under picks. Part of me thinks the Seahawks could take the 49ers in this game. It’ll be a prime time game in front of their home crowd and they have a chance to take a 1st place tie in the NFC West. I would not be surprised at all if Seattle beats the 49ers here, but since I believe the latter to be the better overall team I will stick with my pick to win.
Denver Broncos Thanksgiving Day History
In each of our open threads today, I wanted to recap some of the moments from our own Denver Broncos on Thanksgiving Day. I covered the Broncos history with the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys in previous threads today, so here I’ll want to cover the rest of their games. Denver has played in 11 total Thanksgiving Day games and six of them came against neither of those two traditional turkey day teams.
The old AFL had a ton of Thanksgiving Day games before the merger, so this is where the bulk of Denver’s games came from. And yes, they lost them all, but their first turkey day game was quite the barn burner in a 46-45 loss to the New York Titans in 1962. They would also lose to the Oakland Raiders in 1963, the San Diego Chargers in 1967, and Kansas City Chiefs in 1969. Neither of those games were anything to write home about. It was the 1960s after all and Denver hadn’t quite found its footing as a franchise.
For Denver’s last two trips to Thanksgiving Day we have to fast forward to the late 2000s. In the NFL’s debut of a third Thanksgiving Day game in 2006, the Broncos and Chiefs squared off again in Kansas City. Denver lost that defensive battle 19-10. However, three years later in 2009 they would host the New York Giants where Kyle Orton and Josh McDaniels offense would dominate Eli Manning the Giants to a 26-6 victory. Denver would win just one more time that season and would begin the tumultuous downfall of one Josh McDaniels.
