As you can see a couple entries down, I wasn't expecting much from this year's menu of Thanksgiving football.
As it turned out, all the games were blowouts. To quote Beacon News Franchise Emeritus Bill Kindt, "Ehhh.....I'm not surprised. I expected that to happen all along."
A quick review of Thursday's results:
Tennessee 47, Detroit 10
Dallas 34, Seattle 9
Philadelphia 48, Arizona 20
Even the college football game sucked:
Texas 49, Texas A&M 9
Not a single one of four games was competitive into the fourth quarter.
My brother-in-law is a police officer, and he was scheduled to work the overnight shift on Thanksgiving. We speculated that all this bad football would cause people to turn off the TV and (horror of horrors) spend more time with their family.
As any police officer will tell you, spending time with drunken, annoying family members only leads to an increase in domestic violence calls. That's the last thing we need on a pleasant holiday such as Thanksgiving.
So, I call upon NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to make some changes. Kick the hapless Lions off Thanksgiving Day and give us a halfway decent game to watch. Don't make us actually talk to the people in our family. It could lead to violence.
Thank you.
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