With the 0-12 Detroit Lions stinking up the season, many people are whining that they don't deserve to host Thanksgiving Day games anymore.
You people are stupid and lazy!
Forget that this is a tradition that spans 70 years. Forget that a decade ago you spent every Thanksgiving in awe of what Barry Sanders did.
Look at it from the NFL's view: you watched it!
They had a 10-1 team spank a 0-11 team and they had a ton of people watching it. What the heck else are you going to do on Thanksgiving??? I watched parts of the Texas-Texas A&M game just because it was on. The NFL would be wise to keep the crapiest of games on Thanksgiving. You would have watched the Chiefs-Raiders game had it been on Turkey Day.
Don't give me that crap that the Lions suck and it has turned their appearances on Thanksgiving into a big joke. How about the other two games? Seattle-Dallas looked like a winner when the schedule first came out but turned into a beatdown. Arizona-Philadelphia looked good all week but turned into its own turkey.
Tonight we get treated to a Jaguars-Texans game on Monday Night Football. No matter how much you think the game looks in April when the schedule comes out, it doesn't always turn that way when the game actually gets here. And Thanksgiving can't really have the same flex scheduling that NBC gets for its Sunday Night games.
With the three games on Thanksgiving, that means the NFL has to find five nationally televised games this weekend (to go along with the Sunday and Monday night football games). Plus, the NFL's highest rated time-slot is the 4:00 pm ET game; it draws more than either the Sunday or Monday night games.
Just enjoy the fact that we get to watch football on Thanksgiving at all.
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