Give Thanks

Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving I thought I would take a few minutes to give thanks for some recent events in the sports world.

First off, there is twelve straight hours of football tomorrow.
God bless the Pilgrims.

Lets give thanks to Kansas St and Oregon for ensuring us of another SEC national title this year. Alabama doesn't blow second chances and according to Vegas the Tide would be a 14 point favorite over Notre Dame. That's assuming the Irish win on Saturday. A loss to USC would most likely mean two SEC teams playing in Miami.
As a fan of a team that plays in the SEC that's just what I wanna see. My team struggle while my rivals win titles. That's what troubles me about most "SEC" fans. If their team can't win it all they wanna see another conference foe on top.
Why? I have no idea. Other than stupidity I can't figure out why a fan would want another team in the conference to have an advantage in recruiting.
Guess what, the conference may look good with all these championships, but you don't.

Since we mentioned Oregon, give thanks to the Ducks cheerleaders.

We should definitely give thanks to NHL commissioner Gary Betman. The lockout is in full swing and after 10 straight days of negotiating he decided the best course of action would be too....take a vacation. That's right. The most incompetent commissioner in all of major sports (Rodger Goodell is a close second) thought it would be best to take a break. Its November, and we have no hockey Gary. You need to spend Thanksgiving with the players union, not in the Virgin Islands.

Give thanks to George St Pierre for his impressive return to the octagon last Saturday. Because of his win we may finally see a "super fight" with Anderson Silva.
Give thanks to Anderson Silva for being the baddest man on the planet.

And lastly let's give a special thanks to the best news of the year other than Tennessee's dismissal of Derek Dooley.

NASCAR.
It appears they crowned their champion this past Sunday and that means that activity is finally over. Who won? I have no idea. But I guarantee you it was a very un athletic guy, with a smoking hot wife ( which I will never understand) that spent half an hour thanking his sponsors and talking about how his - insert number here- car was fast all year long.
While I'm saying thanks tomorrow I'm gonna wish that NASCAR would hire Gary Betman to run things. The only thing better than their season being over would be a lockout.

So Happy Thanksgiving.

God bless food, football,cheerleaders and America.

And congrats to my brother Marcus. Or as her prefers to be called, "Mr All District"