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Thanksgiving at my house growing up meant two thing. First, sports would be played during the week, and in the 1970's world before ESPN this was still considered a rarity. Starting with the Lions playing the Packers at 9 a.m., and the moving on to whatever the NFL picked as its second game. Thanksgiving gave sports fans the opportunity to increase the amount of football watched by two-fold.
The second thing Thanksgiving meant in my house was not as fun for the sports fan. Relatives coming to my house who weren't sports fans. People who thought it was rude not to want to have a conversation with people I saw only once or twice a year. Aunts and Uncles and cousins who didn't know the difference between a halfback and a bowl of beets. Every year these people would invade our home, or my family would trek to their homes for a dinner of foods this picky eater would never touch, and would leave me eternally frustrated at some peoples lack of respect towards this sports fans wants and needs.
Thanksgiving at my house growing up meant two thing. First, sports would be played during the week, and in the 1970's world before ESPN this was still considered a rarity. Starting with the Lions playing the Packers at 9 a.m., and the moving on to whatever the NFL picked as its second game. Thanksgiving gave sports fans the opportunity to increase the amount of football watched by two-fold.
The second thing Thanksgiving meant in my house was not as fun for the sports fan. Relatives coming to my house who weren't sports fans. People who thought it was rude not to want to have a conversation with people I saw only once or twice a year. Aunts and Uncles and cousins who didn't know the difference between a halfback and a bowl of beets. Every year these people would invade our home, or my family would trek to their homes for a dinner of foods this picky eater would never touch, and would leave me eternally frustrated at some peoples lack of respect towards this sports fans wants and needs.
