... gather together with our families, eat tons of turkey, pretend we are thankful for something, watch our crazy uncle get hammered, and watch the Detroit Lions get obliterated.

Generally, none of us would watch the Lions play, even if you paid us. But slap that terrible product on the tube at 12:30 in the middle of the week and we are all over it.

Schedule the Lions for Monday Night Football and we're watching Dancing With the Stars, helping the wife clean the house, staying at the office extra late, or performing some other arduous task.

On Thanksgiving it's a different story, we tune in each year and ask ourselves, "How bad are the Lions?"

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