Re: Another gravy swamp.

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, clams casino wrote:

On 11/25/2024 3:44 PM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, clams casino wrote:
 

On 11/25/2024 3:25 AM, D wrote:

Only once did I have a thanksgiving dinner. It was my school in Chicago who had as a tradition that every professor would invite a bunch of the international students.
 In the house I was assigned, the stuffing came on the side. It was explained to us that a very important tradition was to drink bland beer, and to watch american football at the same time. 😉

 Detroit and Dallas, every miserable, tryptophan-snoozing year!
 

 Never been to either place. Dallas is on the list, Detroit, not so much.

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Right, I was referring to the scheduled nfl games for that day, it became a TV tradition back when Dallas was good and Detroit was awful.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_Thanksgiving_Day

Ahhh.... thank you! I had no idea! Many decades ago, in that room at thanksgiving, I hardly paid any notice to the actual teams playing. I was more focused on my beer and some discussion with the professor and my fellow class mates. It seemed as if the game was just a backdrop and very few cared about the actual result.

The NFL's Thanksgiving Day games have traditionally included one game hosted by the Detroit Lions since 1934, and one game hosted by the Dallas Cowboys since 1966 (with two exceptions in 1975 and 1977). Since 2006, a third prime time game has also been played on Thanksgiving Day. Unlike the two afternoon games, this game has no fixed teams.
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In 2001, the NFL began branding the games as the Thanksgiving Classic.[1] In 2022, the league changed the branding to the John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration in honor of head coach and broadcaster John Madden, who had died in December 2021

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing!

This year's early offerings include this absolute stinker:
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Dallas
2:30 PM FOX