This Thanksgiving will be like any other Thanksgiving for most. It will included a lot of food, family and telling people what your thankful for. However, this years Thanksgiving has a little bit of a twist to it compared to other Thanskgivings. A triple header for all those football loves out there.
Normally every Thanksgiving consist of three pooring games. Just last year we had to watch the New England Patriots destroy the Detorit Lions 45-24. The Lions have been some what unlucky since they always play on Thanskgiving. Lions fans probably wish their team didnt play on Thanksgiving day seeing as the last Thanksgiving game they won was in 2003 against the Green Bay Packers. Frostburg State student Eric Gross had this to say about the Lions playing on Thanksgiving, "I wish they would play the four o'clock game so that we dont miss a good game while eating dinner. This year thought the Lions aren't half bad".
Lions are riding high having what appears to be their first winning season in a long time. With a seven game losing streak on the line they didnt get help from the NFL who scheduled them to play the undefeated Green Bay Packers. Will it be eight straight loses on turkey day for the Lions?
The Lions aren't the only team that is guarnteed a spot on TV on Thanksgiving. The Dallas
Cowboys play ever Thanksgiving as well. To no surpise though since the Cowboys are America's team. This Thanksgiving the Cowboys will be going up against the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins started the season off terrible losing their first eight games. Going into this Thanksgiving game thought the Dolphins like the Lions are riding in on a three game win streak. So Cowboy's fans aren't looking at the easy game they thought they had three weeks ago.
So with games going all day long and people wondering if dinner is even worth missing a snap, the NFL has scheduled a primetime matchup for the night game. The Baltimore Ravens going up against the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers are having a surprising season coming into Thanksgiving with a record of 9-1. They will have to be on thier A game playing the Baltimore RAvens who seem to play great against good teams and terrible against the bad teams. It should be a hard hitting game between two great defenses.
The 49ers vs. Ravens game isnt the only story line behind this game thought. The two coaches for the team know each other pretty well. Jim Harbaugh and John Harbaugh will be the first brothers to coach against each other in an NFL game. Jim is the head coach for the 49ers and John is the head coach for the Ravens. Both brothers are taking the game serious but find it fun to coach against each other. Sam Michels a students at Frostburg State and my own brother at that had this to say if we ever matched up on different sidelines, "I would win. Hands down and I would run up the score".
Thanksgiving and the NFL are two things that just go well together. Like turkey and gravy or rolls and butter. The two just work and this year the NFL got lucky and all three games scheduled appear to be good ones. So sit back and enjoy all of it on a full stomach.
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