Ready for another football feast?

As teams, leagues and broadcasters become increasingly coordinated, the football calendar is filling up—but fans always seem to be able to make room for more.

Welcome back to Club Sportico, where we break down the intersection of sports and money—with an extra bit of humor and opinion. Today, we’re carving up leftovers.

Like every good tradition, the Lions playing on Thanksgiving started as a desperate bid for attention. The young NFL franchise had just moved to Detroit from Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1934, changed…