Nov 28 2008
Thumbs Down on Thanksgiving Football
The schedule makers for the 2008 Thanksgiving Day lineup need to be replaced. We are no longer living in the nineties where Dallas and Detroit had better teams than what they have now.
Yesterday, there was three games and all three games were blow outs. All three of the games were over even before your food coma settled in from your turkey dinner. It was very disappointing that a tradition like NFL Thanksgiving Football has sunk to a new low.
I will say the NFL network at least tried to save the day with a more competitive game with the lineup of the Eagles and the Cardinals. However the game did not go the way I am sure the network wanted as the game was also out of hand early on and ended in a Philly pasting of the Cardinals.
There is no doubt that the whole Dallas Detroit thing on Thanksgiving is out dated and needs to be changed up. Now I am sure Dallas fans would be upset at that but Detroit fans are ready for the bleeding to stop. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell needs to step up and make changes if he wants Thanksgiving Football to get better in the future.
For now we have to see the same two teams in which one has some life, however another team that has not won a playoff game this new millennium. The tradition of Thanksgiving Football is important but how is the NFL going to bring new fans to watch on this day if they see the same thing year after year. Maybe that kid in Carolina wants to see his Panthers on Thanksgiving for once or even that girl who loves her chance to see the Buffalo Bills play on Thanksgiving.
In the future why not take the previous two teams that were in the Super Bowl and put them on during Thanksgiving. A rematch between the Giants and the Patriots would have drawn more fans than all three games yesterday put together. That is coming from someone that lives in the midwest. I love my midwest football but I would rather watch a quality game than, Detroit getting flattened every year. No offense to the Detroit Lions, but I am sure their fans are tired as well.
