NFL Week 12 Thread: Tom Brady is a turkey who needs a haircut!!!

The Rich Campbell photo piqued my interest as to what he's up to today. So I did some brief research.

He's one of us!

Rich Campbell, the ex-Packers bust, is an opinion columnist for Scripps Treasure Coast newspapers. Before that, he was the opinion page editor at the Hattiesburg, Miss. paper.

Here's a blog entry on Jim McMahon's memory loss and how he related to his own career.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/nov/23/rich-campbell-old-gridiron-foe-paying-price-for/

This was a true I'll-be-damned moment for me. Ride on, Rich Campbell! You're a better columnist than you were a QB.

 

Football on Thanksgiving is the tradition, not the Lions and Cowboys. No one outside of Detroit and Jerry Jones cares which teams regularly appear. Get some rivalry games, last Sunday's Indy-NE game would be a great 4:00 game. Giants-Eagles, Ravens-Steelers, Packers-Bears. Showcase games.

The NFL seems so complacent in its current preeminence that it misses historical lessons. MLB & NBA All Star games were premier events, now reduced to basic cable loss leaders. The NFL needs to ramp up Thanksgiving before Stern gives us LeBron- Kobe and Jesus gives us Duke-Kentucky on Thanksgiving.

Of the 3 games this Thursday, none have a team with a winning record playing a team with a winning record. With these games over by halftime what are we gonna do? Talk with our relatives?

 

Abbott, some teams HATE the Thanksgiving Day game and don't want to play it. It took years for the NFL to hammer them into accepting a third game.

 

So are you suggesting the replace Dallas and Detroit in the Thanksgiving Day games with the SB teams, or should they change the scheduling formula to accommodate this?

 

Whatever teams fall on the SB teams' schedule for this week, that is who they play.

Keep Detriot if you like.

 

No Turkey day game in Detroit or Dallas? Preposterous!

That would like MLB not having the first game of the year be in Cincinnati. Oh, wait a minute....

Actually, anyone know how long these Detroit and Dallas traditions go back? I know in '77, Miami and St. Louis played on Thanksgiving and the 55-14 Dolphin shellacking left an impression on this young Big Red fan.

 

I hate working on my Birthday, but it's part of the job. The road Thanksgiving teams should be coming off the bye week. That's not 2 weeks off but it is 10 days to prepare for 2 games, each.

Thanksgiving is getting up late, coffee and a bagel, the morning paper and the Parade. Followed by 7 hours of hor's d'ovres,drinking, football turkey with all the trimmings. Wait a bit and then Coffee, Pies and Ice Cream and then "It's a Wonderful Life".

A nice Blow Job to finish the evening and then wake me on Saturday.

 

The Bears' spectacular collapse ---- with Lovie Smith, Jerry Angelo and Co. emerging unscathed from the smoldering wreckage ---- begins this Sunday.

 

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

 

Maybe -- but you may be premature. Would take +3 1/2 or +4, all day.
There's trouble in that schedule, and they're absolutely no playoff cinch, but
expect them to be competitive Sunday afternoon. That defense is even
better than you think.

 

Lions have been playing on Thanksgiving since 1934. They first did it to draw attendance:

http://www.detroitlions.com/team/history/thanksgiving-day-in-motor-city.html

The Cowboys started in 1966, and my understanding is, they did it because the league was seeking a second game and they volunteered:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_Classic