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Thanksgiving morning football

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Starman, Nov 26, 2015.

  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Only one T-day traditional left in California, I believe, the "Big Bone" game between San Jose High and Lincoln High. Neither is usually in contention for the playoffs, but in past years, if one is close, they've declined in order to keep the tradition alive.
     
  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    In Massachusetts, the playoffs, which are only a couple of years old, have their semi-finals end before Thanksgiving. Finals will be a week from Saturday at Gillette. Nothing interferes with Turkey morning football. They'd cancel Opening Day at Fenway before that would happen.
     
  3. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Do they play there every year, or just piggybacking ND-BC?
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    No, this is new, or rather, the first time since the late '30s
     
  5. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    The playoffs, which started in 2012 or 2013, have made Thanksgiving games less important in Mass. The way it works: there are seven regular-season games, three weeks of playoffs (or consolation games if you don't make it; they'd call them "contingency games" in Pennsylvania), then an eighth "regular season" game on Thanksgiving. Technically the Thanksgiving game can settle a league title, but all it matters for is bragging rights.

    At least there are true state champs in Mass., which wasn't the case before.
     
  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Should have added that San Francisco's public schools play their championship game Thanksgiving morning at Kezar Stadium.
     
  7. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    The San Francisco public school league plays its championship on Thanksgiving every year. It's almost always at Kezar Stadium.

    Edit: Probably should have read the post above mine.
     
  8. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Math adds up to 117 games, so they skipped some years along the way.
     
  9. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Question answered: It's the oldest PUBLIC school rivalry, or so it is claimed.
     
  10. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    D.C. public schools used to play their championship on Thanksgiving morning at RFK. The York-Lancaster War of the Roses all-star game was also a Thanksgiving morning thing.
     
  11. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Ocean Springs (Miss.) used to host the Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving, but they got rid of it in the late 1980s after the statewide playoffs expanded to such a degree that it's rare for a team with a winning record to be left out of the postseason. Because who wants to go watch two 4-6 teams play in a "bowl" game?
     
  12. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    My current town is on that list and the Thanksgiving game is by far the biggest of the year, despite the fact that in other sports the schools aren't otherwise rivals.
     
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