For millions around the country, Thanksgiving means two things: Turkey with all the fixings and Football. This year, FanDuel is asking us to add one more shared tradition to the menu: building a same-game parlay with our friends and relatives while we watch the day’s NFL triple-header.
On November 24, the company announced “Pass The Leg,” an in-app experience that gives football fans a new way to bet together on Turkey Day. The new feature allows multiple users to work together on a single same-game parlay before each person decides whether they want to place the wager individually.
The rollout is tied directly to the NFL’s Thanksgiving lineup: Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs vs. Dallas Cowboys, and Cincinnati Bengals vs. Baltimore Ravens, making the holiday’s full day of football the feature’s first real-world test.
With Pass The Leg, FanDuel is bringing the social element of watching sports into the betting experience. “Pass The Leg is all about how our customers actually experience sports — together, sharing excitement, and creating memories around the games they love,” said Karol Corcoran, SVP & General Manager, FanDuel Sportsbook.
This new group parlay strategy aligns with FanDuel’s business strategy, particularly in the context of same-game parlays, which have become a big part of the company’s strategy.
In its Q3 earnings release, FanDuel’s parent company, Flutter, pointed out that “Higher levels of parlay and SGP penetration ultimately drive higher structural revenue margin, and we continue to make good progress toward our longer-term 16% structural hold expectation.”
Given that financial logic, it comes as little surprise that FanDuel decided to launch its new group-parlay feature just ahead of Thanksgiving.
‘Pass the Leg’ Makes Betting a Group Event
Pass The Leg comes from the idea that people are already collaborating on bets as they watch games together, whether that’s through group chats, texting picks back and forth, or sending screenshots; they just haven’t been able to do it directly in an app.
FanDuel’s new promotion promises to change that, at least for one day. Instead of coordinating their parlays manually, one user can start a Group Build, add a leg, and then send the link to friends who want to contribute their own selections.
Two participants and a total of three legs are needed before users can place a bet using the new feature. Perhaps most importantly, everyone ultimately stakes their own money; Pass The Leg doesn’t require any pooled funds. Instead, each person adds the finished slip to their own betslip and places the wager individually.
The tool eliminates the back-and-forth of texting picks or sending screenshots, making group betting native to the app rather than something that happens on the side. With the feature supporting up to 25 legs, it has the potential to turn a simple holiday bet into a large, multi-person parlay built from a mix of predictions across the same game.
Thanksgiving-Only Test Built Around Shared Viewing
FanDuel knows that football is a big part of the Thanksgiving holiday, and it has chosen to launch the promotion with a deliberately limited scope. The company says Pass The Leg is “available exclusively for the three NFL games taking place on Thanksgiving Day,” positioning it as something designed for this specific moment when family and friends come together to watch the same matchups.
Thanksgiving is one of the most social sports days on the American calendar, with families and friends watching multiple games from the same living room or opposite sides of the country, while dipping in and out during meals, and debating plays as they unfold.
It appears that FanDuel may have chosen this holiday to launch this new feature, taking advantage of the already built-in communal setting. Thanksgiving gives FanDuel the perfect trial run: everyone’s already gathered together on the couch, watching the same plays and reacting in real time.
The timing allows the company to assess whether group betting can simply slot into that ritual. A single-day launch makes it easy to track engagement and see whether holiday gatherings translate into collaborative betting behavior.
For now, Pass The Leg is a one-day experiment, limited to this year’s Thanksgiving NFL slate. FanDuel has not announced whether the group-parlay tool will be available for future games or other betting markets.
Turning Family Football Traditions Into Shared Parlays
Once the link has been shared and everyone starts adding their picks, Pass The Leg will seemingly turn the parlay into another part of the holiday’s activities. Instead of just one bettor sitting back with their own slip, everyone in the group can follow each leg together, whether it’s an anytime touchdown, a quarterback passing line, or a defensive prop someone insisted on adding.
It’s hard to say exactly how this will change the betting experience or how games will feel until it plays out on Thanksgiving Day. Fans may still root for their favorite team, but at the same time, there’s another narrative running through the room: whose leg is still alive, who took the risky pick, and which selection ends up swinging the ticket for the entire group.
The whole dynamic of a parlay changes with the introduction of the Pass The Leg feature. A big gain or costly drop is now a collective moment, especially when several members of the family or a group of friends are watching the same parlay play out while sitting in the living room together.
Taste of Public Reaction: Humor, Hype & Head-Scratches
With sportsbook ads changing the viewing experience, adding group parlays to the mix might make wagering feel like just another part of the celebration, right alongside the food, football, friends, and family. And people have expressed strong opinions on social media about whether that’s a good thing. While it’s still too early to draw any conclusions about how fans will ultimately react to Pass The Leg, the first reactions are a mixed bag.
On X, Houston Rockets basketball star Kevin Durant posted: “I’m going with the Lions on Thanksgiving. Drop your pick and pass the leg @FDSportsbook.” As one might expect, many fans reacted, with some chastising him for promoting gambling and others disagreeing with his pick.
Another user on X joked about how family dinners might go if a leg doesn’t hit, along with a meme, “Grandma on Thanksgiving after she adds the losing leg to the parlay.”
And in a public post on Facebook, one user predicted Pass The Leg could change holiday dynamics entirely: “FanDuel’s ‘Pass The Leg’ shared parlay promotion is going to create an awful lot of fights at Thanksgiving dinners across this country.”
Several posts were critical of the new promotion, with one user saying, “A great way to lose money with friends,” and another calling it “ingeniously evil.”
If FanDuel’s bet on group parlays is successful, it could do more than change how bets are placed; it might shift how some treat holidays, football, and group rituals. We’ll have to wait and see if this holiday experiment catches on. If it does, Pass The Leg could be the beginning of sportsbooks integrating more communal activities into digital betting.
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