I completely understand how easy it is to say no to something that doesn't exist.
The fact that the NFL keeps expanding its Thanksgiving Day line up, tells me that if it did exist it would be successful.
This year people all over Detroit, Green Bay, Dallas, Washington, Seattle and San Francisco will be going to a game that day.
Detroit fans, started two years after McNaspy installed lights, and the Cowboys began in the 1960's but if you had asked those other teams fans way back when, they would have said "no way" to something that didn't exist.
The fact that Louisiana was doing it 30 years before the Lions intrigues me and no better day, encompasses "homecoming."
About 5 years ago the Saints played on TG at home and I'm sure everyone that had season tickets, went.
Ole Miss and Mississippi State play annually on that day.
Louisiana should, strike it up with Soutbern Miss. If I'm not mistaken, the two schools have played on that day, before.