Thanksgiving Day Football = Hole In The Head

I know it is tradition. I knew from where I live before I ever watched my first dreadful Turkey Day Lions blowout. Thanksgiving Day is supposed to be about family and football. Right now I could use a little less of both. This year's NFL (and high school, Westerly 30 Stonington 0 for the uninformed) football games were an absolute joke.

The Lions scored first in the 12:30 game against Green Bay then were subsequently outscored 34-5. Unless you had Aaron Rodgers or Donald Driver on your fantasy team even a Cheesehead couldn't have given a crap about this turd of a contest.

Next it was Oakland v. Dallas and boy was this one a barn burner. Jason Garrett seemingly still went with his ever clever strategy at throwing 25 times at one of the top 5 corners in the league. But when Tashard Choice and Felix Jones run for about 30 yards a carry and Jason Witten awoke from his season long coma, it helps. But still it was against Oakland, a team starting the one the only Bruce Gradkowski under center, at home. 24-7 was the score not the time frame for where the old hardcore title was defended.

Then came the main event so to speak, a battle of two seemingly event matched teams in the Broncos and the Giants. First things first let me just say that of all the leagues starting their own networks, the NFL's may be the worst when it comes to game production value. The announcing team sounds like they are working on a radio feed and I'd like to get through at least one set of replays without random splicing of an unknown cameraman's feet tangled in wires. But I digress, to the game itself. Yawn. If the people I were originally watching the game with weren't Giants fans getting irate after each successive missed tackle and blown coverage, I would have more than likely fell asleep. The Giants confuse me in so many ways and seem to invent new ways to be inept each week. Whether it be Brandon Jacobs trying to do his best Jamal Lewis impression by stutter stepping before running right into a crowd of six defenders and immediately falling down. Or fumbleitis running wild like Hulkamania. Don't get me wrong the Broncos are not the Raiders or the Lions but the Giants can't possibly be THIS bad. Hopefully the games this weekend make up for the sorry excuses for ones were this holiday. Stupid overeating I feel another dump coming on.