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If you’re in America and you’re reading this, you’re already either on Thanksgiving vacation or pretending to work while your mind’s already on vacation. Congrats! You’ve earned it.
(If you’re not in America, this is a normal Wednesday for you. Lucky you. We haven’t had one of those around here in awhile.)
Aside from all the food-and-family traditions, the brown-and-orange color scheme, and the Christmas-shopping starting gun, one of the finest parts of the Thanksgiving holiday is the family Turkey Bowl, a time when older relatives think they’ve still got the arm that beat Holly Springs High, a time when the youngsters try to show they’re not little kids anymore, a time when everyone comes back in the house slathered in mud, a time when everyone is one play from a catastrophic don’t-tell-your-mother injury.