It's Turkey Time! What is it about the magical games over the Thanksgiving break? There is nothing quite like the smell of fresh rolls coming out of the oven and the Lions usually down by 18 points by 1:00 pm. Every year we are blessed by the Three Stooges like performance of Detroit "No-Town" Lions. Detroit was looking at possibility losing seven straight Thanksgiving classic games. How can one team be so bad for so long?
This year it was the Tale of Two Halves on display. The game began with Patriots leading 3-0 after a Shane Graham 19 yard field goal. Calvin Johnson caught a pass for 19 yards from Hill to give the lead at the end of the first quarter, 3-7. Maurice Morris gave the Lions a 10-3 lead with a one yard run into the end zone. All was looking up to break the Turkey Day losing streak with Lions leading the Patriots at the half, 17-10.
The second half the Patriots made the proper adjustments and didn't look back. They would go on to score 14 in the third and 21 in the forth. That would be enough to add another loss to the Lions and take their record to 2-9.
It's rumored G.A. Richards, first owners of the Lions, started the Thanksgiving Classic as a gimmick to people to attend a Lions game. The paid attendance of this game was 60,965 and only needing about 4,000 more for a sell out. The Lions are positioning for the NFL draft and it does not look to be getting better. The Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
How can you not enjoy this time of the year.
