KC Chiefs fans going to Dallas for Thanksgiving: Don’t miss Texas BBQ | Opinion
I know where I may spend Thanksgiving this year: in Dallas. According to The Star’s Blair Kerkhoff, the Kansas City Chiefs will play at the Dallas Cowboys at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 27. CBS announced as much Wednesday.
Football and barbecue on Thanksgiving in Dallas sounds like a perfect holiday trip, doesn’t it?
Thanks to the NFL’s scheduling gurus, I could possibly knock three things off my bucket list that day: attend a Chiefs’ road game for the first time and catch the Cowboys in Dallas on Turkey Day, something I’ve always wanted to do but haven’t.
Here’s another draw: My father lives in nearby Fort Worth. I’ve yet to spend Thanksgiving with my old man since he moved to Texas in 2020 so this could be the first. Let me get my siblings on the line to discuss these pending holiday plans. If I have to make an executive decision to fly solo — most likely I would drive — I will.
Although I’ve never been to a Turkey Day game in Dallas, I have attended a Cowboys’ game at massive AT&T Stadium in Arlington. This place holds 100,000 people for football games. In 2021, I was in Fort Worth to celebrate my pop’s 70th birthday. The next day, one of my first cousins and I hailed a ride share to Dallas for brunch — which is a big deal in that city — and a Cowboys game. I used a third-party app to score a nosebleed seat.
I don’t remember who the Cowboys played but I was quite impressed with the stadium they call “Jerry’s World” in honor of owner Jerry Jones. There really wasn’t a bad seat in the house and that enormous 600-ton LED video screen suspended over the field was breathtaking.
As the Star reported, the Cowboys are a Thanksgiving regular; the Chiefs, not so much. That contest will mark the Chiefs’ first Turkey Day game since 2006. And it’s a homecoming game of sorts for star quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
The game will also mark the “Chiefs’ first appearance in Dallas since 2017, the rookie season of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who played high school football in nearby Whitehouse, Texas. Mahomes didn’t play in that game,” Kerkhoff wrote.
Chiefs fans, if you’ve never been to AT&T Stadium, this upcoming Thanksgiving may be the perfect opportunity to visit and watch your favorite team play at the same time. You may even want to do a little taste tasting of your own.
I’ve had Texas barbecue in Austin and Dallas but I am partial to the way Kansas City does it — I don’t care that Yelp ranked Kansas City behind Austin and San Antonio in its top BBQ cities for 2025.
To me, nothing compares to the way KC pitmasters ‘cue their hickory-smoked meats and slather them with that sweet and tangy sauce.
Maybe a legion of Chiefs fans could find out for themselves this November.
This story was originally published May 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM with the headline "KC Chiefs fans going to Dallas for Thanksgiving: Don’t miss Texas BBQ | Opinion."
