Thanksgiving football game info, picks, and open thread

Thanksgiving football returns to give us all an excuse to not talk to our families with a full slate of games from noon thirty through the end of the day. The Chicago Bears are visiting the Detroit Lions at 12:30 PM ET on CBS, the New York Giants are visiting the Dallas Cowboys at 4:30 PM ET on Fox, and the Miami Dolphins are in Wisconsin to play the Green Bay Packers at 8:20 PM ET on NBC and Peacock.

As always in our brave new world of expansive sports gambling, it is now easier to bet on games than to watch them. You can catch current odds on all NFL games for Week 13 here on FanDuel.

As for the games today, we have a lopsided opening, a pair of evenly matched cellar dwellers in the middle,…