If you're making plans to watch football on Thanksgiving, you're going to have some extra time to burn this year before the first game kicks off.

For the first time in 43 years, the early Thanksgiving game won't be kicking off at 12:30 p.m. ET. Instead, it's being pushed back 30 minutes. When the NFL schedule came out in May, one of the most notable changes came with the league's decision to push the early game to 1 p.m. ET and that's when Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers will be kicking off Thursday on Fox .

The Lions have hosted the early game for decades and the last time it didn't kick off at 12:30 p.m. ET came all the way back in 1982. During a strike-shortened season that saw each team play just nine games, the Lions hosted the Giants in a game that kicked off at 12

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