The Thanksgiving Day dawn sees me at my in-laws, anticipating a day where (should I choose) I don’t have to put on my shoes and a dinner of awesome proportions, not to mention tremendous Thanksgiving sandwiches later. It also, as always, finds me noodling all the reasons I have to be thankful this year.
If nothing else, and probably most relevant to this audience, 2018 has given me plenty to be thankful for on the Notre Dame football front. The team is undefeated on both the season and the calendar year. Ian Book’s emergence has been one of the big stories in college football, and the resilience of this squad dealing with injuries has been impressive.