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There are worse things than the New York Giants, although admittedly not a lot of them.
Thursday’s main course is one example; turkey may be the clucking embodiment of a sort of Tebow-esque blandness, but that’s only when it’s not trying to kill you. E. coli and salmonella often lurk in the store-bought birds, while their free-range, free-love country cousins are rife with avian chlamydiosis and lung fungus. And a hale and hearty bird is no prize either, what with that red ear-lobey thing hanging from his neck.
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And yet, for all that, something like 80 million Americans this week will take to the highways and skies, traveling far and wide to partake in the communal feast of ritual mediocrity. And while the late-afternoon NFL matchup promises to be about as palatable as a Jell-O salad—hooves and marshmallows: two great tastes that go great together—roughly half of these road warriors will slip away from the table to watch the Giants take on the Dallas Cowboys in the House that Jerry Built. That’s how traditions work. We do things we don’t always enjoy, because some people, now long dead, thought it was a good idea when they were still calling the shots.
If the prospect of a 4-7 Dallas team playing host to a 2-9 Giants squad doesn’t necessarily light up the neural pleasure centers, Fox can take comfort in the knowledge that the NFL’s 57-year-old tradition is as indispensable to the holiday as cranberry sauce. You will watch because: a) there’s nothing else on, and b) even sub-par football is still, well, football. Witness last year’s centerpiece game, a 45-10 Cowboys blowout of their NFC East rivals from the nation’s capital. While not something you’d hang in the Louvre, CBS’ broadcast gobbled up an average draw of 41.8 million viewers, making it the…
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Publish date : 2024-11-27 10:55:00
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