 The last currently active franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving through is the Jacksonville Jaguars, who joined the league in .An idiosyncrasy in the NFL's current scheduling formula, which has been in effect in its basic form since 2002, effectively prevented teams from the AFC North from playing the Lions or Cowboys on Thanksgiving, as the formula had the AFC North playing in Dallas or Detroit in years when the other team was slated to play the AFC game on Thanksgiving.These teams, under the television contracts in place at the time, could only play in the third (night) game.