According to NFL Media, the Bears-Lions game averaged 37.5 million viewers on CBS, which makes it the most-watched early Thanksgiving Day game on record. As a whole, it was a record-setting Thanksgiving Day for the NFL,

The Detroit Lions were able to set a new NFL record for viewership on Thanksgiving in their normal time slot.

It's been a wild swing of emotions in Detroit. Cole Kmet's offensive pass interference wiped away a first-down pass on fourth down, but then the Lions were flagged for defensive pass interference when Caleb Williams' prayer fell to the turf. The Bears have it in field goal range.

The Lions played their first Thanksgiving game in 1934, and they’ve hosted a game on the holiday every year since 1945 for a total of 84 games. In that span, the Lions have accumulated a record of 37-45-2.

After setting the all-time viewership record for the early Thanksgiving game last year, the Lions crushed that mark in their win over the Bears last week.

NFL Week 13 opens with Thanksgiving Day football when the Chicago Bears travel to face the Detroit Lions. Start time, TV schedule and how to watch.

Few combinations go together better than Thanksgiving and football and this year's ratings bear that out. Per Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, the NFL had its most-watched Thanksgiving ever this year,