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Average Elo matchup quality* for Thanksgiving Day NFL games since the 1970 AFL merger, with a 5-year trendline

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*Based on the Harmonic Mean of the teams' pregame Elo ratings.

Chart: Neil PaineSource: Pro-Football-ReferenceGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper