You can expect a great halftime show in Detroit for the Lions game with the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving Day, 2024. The Detroit Lions are a staple of Thanksgiving Day, like turkey, and they have outdone themselves this year with a whale of a halftime show. The Thanksgiving Day 2024 Detroit Lions halftime show is worthy of a Super Bowl. That is what happens when you have a captive national audience. The Lion’s halftime show will feature Shaboozey, a six-time Grammy-nominated country and hip-hop artist who has performed with Beyonce. Unlike in years past, the Detroit Lions are good, in fact, a Super Bowl favorite, so the game itself promises to be meaningful.
Shaboozey and the Halftime Show
Shaboozey will headline the halftime show at the game between the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears. Though he has achieved some acclaim, breaking through in 2018 when his song, “Start a Riot,” was included on the soundtrack for the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie, this is his biggest exposure. He is best known for his smash hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” This song led to his six Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist and People’s Choice Country Awards for New Artist and New Artist Song. There do not seem to be any other significant performers during this halftime show, though there will surely be a lot of theatrics.
The Lions Thanksgiving Tradition
The Detroit Lions seem to always play a football game on Thanksgiving Day, at least they have since 1947. The Detroit Lions are 37-42-2 all-time on Thanksgiving Day. They have played the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving Day thirteen times and have compiled a five-and-eight record in those games. An interesting fact is that the Detroit Lions have played the Green Bay Packers the most times on Thanksgiving Day, twenty-one times. The Detroit Lions playing football on Thanksgiving Day has become a tradition in this country. So has awarded the player of the game a “turducken,” a cross between a turkey, a chicken, and a duck, cooked to perfection.
The Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx
Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown is a great wide receiver who recently celebrated a touchdown by standing on his head. He has certainly not been affected by any cover jinxes.
The Detroit Lions were this year’s Sports Illustrated pick to win the Super Bowl. The Detroit Lions have never won the Super Bowl, so their winning would be a coup. Because they are the magazine’s pick to win it all, four of their players appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated football preview issue in August 2024. The Lions are currently 8-1 and in first place in the National Football League National Football Conference North standings. They are one of the best football teams in the League and are a surefire bet, at this point in the season, to make the playoffs.
The skill of the Detroit Lions notwithstanding, it is said that if an athlete or team appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated, they will suffer some calamity. A downturn in output is unavoidable, as to get on the cover of Sports Illustrated, an athlete or team must be doing well. It is expected they will regress to the mean. This fate has not heretofore befallen the Detroit Lions, and it probably will not. Regardless, the Detroit Lions should win the football game on Thanksgiving Day against the Chicago Bears, and a lot of people should watch their halftime show as there will be a large captive audience.
The Benefits of a Captive Audience
The Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears will be the only game on in the early window. Turkeys and fixings will be cooked across the nation. As Americans collapse onto their coaches after working hard, they cannot help but engage in yet another Thanksgiving tradition: football. They will have a captive audience who should arrive at their couches at about halftime. They should enjoy this show put on by the National Football League (NFL). The NFL knows they have a captive audience, and the media-savvy league will want to put its best foot forward.
Conclusion
The halftime show on Thanksgiving Day will feature country/hip-hop artist Shaboozey. There will be a captive audience with no other football games on television at the same time as millions of people are sitting down on their couches after a morning of cooking. Likely, as with the Super Bowl, about half the audience will not be interested in football, watching the dominant Detroit Lions beat the Chicago Bears, or care that the Detroit Lions are in first place in the NFL National Football Conference North Division. They just came for the show.
