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SALT LAKE CITY — It’s Thanksgiving which means it’s time for one thing. No, not food or spending quality time with your family. It means football, and we’re not talking about watching the Lions and Packers battle it out. We’re talking about the Turkey Bowl.
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Turkey Bowl is a time-honored tradition that pits brother against brother, friend against friend, father against son and at times husbands against wives. Year after year, men head out the door at the crack of dawn on that last Thursday in November and hear, “Why are you going out there? It’s 12 degrees outside and your tendinitis is worse in the cold.” But the thought of Hail Marys and QB sacks drown out the very reasonable concerns — because pain is temporary, but glory lasts forever.
For one morning, men and women across the country pretend as if their body is still 17 years old and dive for balls on the frozen ground and sacrifice their body in an effort to grab a cloth flag hanging from an opponent’s waist.
Those who brave the weather and battle against those who hours from now they will ask to pass the gravy ignore the fact that they probably won’t be able to move for the next week and that most likely have a sound escape their mouths every time they get up from the couch that resembles the sound you’d make if you were kicked in the stomach by a mule. But it is all worth it. Because you score that game-winning TD, or you make the pick that secured the win on that final drive.
So, before you make yourself sick with stuffing and pie, strap on those cleats from high school that are held together by duct tape, pride and pure determination. Then throw on layer upon layer of clothing to avoid hypothermia and let all self regard for your physical well-being fly out the window for one morning and enjoy the great Thanksgiving tradition known as the Turkey Bowl.
