It’s a Turkey Day tradition, right up there with brown gravy and quiet seething: football. And it’s not like I’m not appreciative of the football -- for God’s sake, if not for football we’d have to speak with our families, which, gross -- but I have a feeling today’s contributions to the pigskin canon aren’t going to have much of a shelf-life.
Thanksgiving Day Football: Not That I’m Not Thankful, But ...
↵First, it was the yearly destruction of the Lions at the hands of the Packers. In the afternoon, you watched the Cowboys beat up on a hapless Raiders team. One question: Why would the NFL do this? Deadspin’s Drew Magary used his column to ask that question today -- warning, link includes plenty of dirty language -- and the question is valid. Why schedule the horrid Raiders on Thanksgiving Day? Why not, oh, I don’t know ... any other team in the entire league? I’ve yet to hear a valid answer for this.
↵So it is on Thanksgiving Day, which is all about giving thanks for what you have while noticing, in that uniquely American way, what you lack. Today, that lack has been entertaining football. Not complaining; just saying.
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