Turkeys, Lions, and Cowboys, OH MY! | Thanksgiving Football Preview
Football Jabber —
There are a few things that are certain on Thanksgiving day. The Lions, Cowboys, and I will pull an eating muscle that can only be treated by several hours of laying on a couch. It’s a tough day but part of the game. I have had this sort of injury so many times that I have become quite good at nursing it. Tradition. This is Thanksgiving Day Football.
This Thursday we will be blessed with four football games (if you have NFL Network). First we will give thanks with a little history on Thanksgiving Day Football and then we will dive into the feast of games.
A Bit of History
Thanksgiving ...
It's been 15 years since Leon Lett let us smile
Epic Carnival —
by GMoney, The Money Shot It seems like only yesterday that Leon Lett made Thankgiving great for all of us. That's right. Today, is the 15 year anniversary of Lett's hilarious fuck-up that cost the Cowboys a win against the Dolphins during a bizarre snowy game in Big D. Let's go to the videotape (as a bonus, the other collossal Lett screw-up in the Super Bowl included at no extra charge)! ...
Today is the 15th Anniversary of the Leon Lett Thanksgiving Blunder
Cowboys Gab —
The 13 Best Gobble Gobble Games Ever
InGameNow —
Thanksgiving is truly one of the greatest holidays of the year. Eat turkey. Watch football. Call it a day (without the turkey, you would call that a Sunday). The experience is heightened by the stressful half-week that precedes it and the timeless traditions we uphold, like taunting your cousins with the best end-zone dance.
Some Thanksgiving traditions survive the test of time - like tryptophan the Lions putting you to sleep after dinner. Here are the Top 13 Thanksgiving Football Games:
1934 - Detroit Lions vs. Chicago Bears
14 years after the first Thanksgiving day, the world was treated to two things. First, the ...
The Hub: November 26, 2008
Comcast SportsNet New England » Wicked Good Sports —
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Feinstein: Coaching accountability seemed to die with Auerbach
Nowadays, coaches appear more than ready to separate themselves from their players after a loss while willingly taking bows after a victory, ...
Happy Thanksgiving and Leon Lett
Knight-Packer —
Happy Thanksgiving! With football a large part of Thanksgiving traditions, I thought I would share this Thanksgiving Day classic moment upon you, courtesy of Leon Lett.
Two Great Or Not-So-Great Thanksgiving Day NFL Moments
Fang's Bites —
After seeing a post by Newsday's Neil Best on Clint Longley's miracle winning touchdown for the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day 1974, I thought I would try to find some more Thanksgiving Day moments. The one Neil found dealt with the Cowboys coming back to beat the Washington Redskins and it was Longley's one and only shining moment with the Cowboys in his career. However, this next one was one in a series of blunders by Leon Lett of the Cowboys some 19 years later. This one was on Thanksgiving Day 1993 during a rare snowstorm in Dallas. NFL Films' series America's Game on that Super Bowl-winning team goes into what happened with Emmit ...
Everyone Will be Missing Texas Stadium
The Big Lead —
The outpouring of love by commenters on this site for the Dallas Cowboys can at times be overwhelming, so in the spirit of that love, I thought it would be appropriate to celebrate the history of the soon-to-be-closed Texas Stadium a little bit differently.
Instead of what Cowboy fans might vote for as their favorite moments they saw take place in Irving, like all those annoying times when Michael Irvin saluted the crowd or did his Zorro crap, I’ve come up with my own list of what I consider to be ’special moments’:
September 1993
Largely due to Emmitt ...
Lighting Sometimes Strikes Twice
Eaglesblog.net —
Lighting Sometimes Strikes Twice thumbnail Sometimes players just have a knack for being in the right place at the right time or in some cases the wrong time. The players listed below will not be remembered in sports history for what they did on a regular basis, but rather for doing something that you don’t often see in sports, not only once, but twice. Was it just a coincidence that this happened or is there something else about the mindset of the players that caused the same thing to happen twice? Frank Reich comes off the bench to lead two of the greatest football comebacks ever. On November 10, 1984 With the Hurricanes up 31-0 lead at halftime, Maryland ...
Sometimes Lightning Strikes Twice
FanIQ Blog —
Sometimes players just have a knack for being in the right place at the right time or in some cases the wrong time. The players listed below will not be remembered in sports history for what they did on a regular basis, but rather for doing something that you don’t often see in sports, not only once, but twice.
Was it just a coincidence that this happened or is there something else about the mindset of the players that caused the same thing to happen twice?
Frank Reich comes off the bench to lead two of the greatest football comebacks ever.
On November 10, 1984 With the Hurricanes up 31-0 lead at halftime, Maryland ...
Friday Morning Blitz
TheDailyBlitz.com —
In honor of the Preakness (May 16th), Jamison Hensley of The Baltimore Sun has set the odds on the Ravens signing one of the veteran receivers trying out with the team. The favorite? Jerry Porter at 4-1.
Former defensive end Leon Lett, perhaps most famous for his Thanksgiving and Super Bowl plays, will receive his college degree from UNLV on Saturday.
Former Broncos safety John Lynch is impressed by the moves Broncos coach Josh McDaniels is making by "going after character players" and he thinks McDaniels "is going to do some outstanding things" in Denver.
“I know I'm capable of doing just as many ...
Report: Cowboys Knew That Summit Structures Had Built A Collapsed Building
ProFootballTalk.com —
Like most prudent businesses, the Dallas Cowboys did their homework before hiring Summit Structures to build an indoor practice facility. According to the Associated Press , the Cowboys learned that Summit Structures had built a similar structure that collapsed in a snow storm ...
Why Your Team Sucks: Dallas Cowboys
Blog Down, Chicago Bears —
“Why Your Team Sucks” is a new feature that will merely be an excuse to talk shit about the rest of the conference. Yeah, this will make us a lot of friends.
Why They Suck: In 1979, NFL Films Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, Bob Ryan, thought he was crafting a cleverly thought out title for a 1978 Cowboys highlight film. In reality, Ryan was laying the groundwork for every future non-Cowboys fan’s repulsory opinion of “America’s Team.”
The Cowboys are the NFL’s version of the New York Yankees; Jerry Jones the owner-equivalent to George/Hank Steinbrenner. In the ...
Inside The Mind of Rzayo24: Are you ready for some football?
The Phinsider —
Did you miss me? I'm back - strong like bull! I have been training my butt off trying to get back into blogging shape. Luckily for you - I've documented the whole thing on YouTube. Roger Goodell has given me the green light to release my super secret offseason training video to the public. You can see the determination in my sick ninja skills. To give you an idea of how much harder I have been training than most bloggers - here is a look at how the Gang Green bloggers have been training this offseason. Needless to say - they have a world of hurt coming their way. I'm in the best shape of my life - minus ...
Vermont High School Football Players Show Importance of Fundamental Soundness
The Sporting Blog —
You would think, after seeing Nathan Vasher, Antonio Cromartie, and Devin Hester turn missed field goals into points for the other team in the last few years in the NFL, that coaches and players at all levels of football would have done a little more ...
Vermont football team wins after crazy fumble recovery
Shutdown Corner —
Despite being down two points and having its kicker miss a 46-yard field goal as time expired, the Jericho Mount Mansfield high school football team won a game last weekend thanks to one of the craziest, and boneheaded, plays you'll ever see. To set the scene, Vermont's Jericho Mount Mansfield high school lined up to kick a field goal with 1.3 seconds left in an attempt to win its game over Otter Valley. Two Otter Valley players went back to the endzone to catch the potentially short field goal. And then this: Even though the ball would have been dead if it fell short of the crossbar, the Otter Valley player caught it, ...
Dallas Week: 15 Most Hated Cowboys
Fat Pickled —
It’s Dallas Week, and no matter what the records are, no matter who’s name is on the back of the jersey’s…it means everything. The greatest rivalry in sports will play out on Jerry’s Disneyland field this Sunday. A lot of players have worn the star on their helmets and it was quite hard to widdle this list down to the 15 players that I have deemed my “most hated.” I’m sure I’ve left a few out…tell me about your most hated Cowgirls in the comments. And here’s a Skins/Boys YouTube to get you in the mood (you’ve seen them a hundred times…but they get better each ...
