To my loyal American readers (all three of you), I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday. We had our Turkey Day in Canada over a month ago, so I'll be at work while you Yanks are chugging beers and watching football. You can learn more about the differences in the origin of our countries respective Thanksgiving traditions here.
I must say I'm intrigued by how the Green Bay-Detroit game will turn out. It's been a while since a Thanksgiving game in Detroit meant anything.
The Lions have had a habit of digging themselves into holes early and climbing out of them late this season. But they don't want to follow that formula against the Packers. Still, I'm sensing Detroit plays inspired football Thursday and hands Green Bay its first loss of 2011. Okay, I'm not sensing it, I'm hoping for it.
Detroit 42 – Green Bay 28
Grey Cup fever
This week will also feature the biggest sporting day of the year in Canada, as the Canadian Football League's version of the Super Bowl – the Grey Cup – will be played in Vancouver on Sunday. The British Columbia Lions will play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers – Bud Grant's old team.
There are a few other Minnesota ties in this game. The Lions have two Minnesota Gophers alumni playing for them and they are both wide receivers: Arland Bruce and Ryan Thelwell (who is a Canadian.)
I'm not sure how storied the Gophers careers of Bruce and Thelwell were, but if you remember their playing days, feel free to leave a comment about what they were like. I'm curious.
The other Minnesota tie in this game is Lions defensive tackle Khreem Smith. You might remember Smith as a member of the Vikings practice squad in Brad Childress' first season as head coach. Smith was cut in training camp the following year and has mostly bounced around the arena league since.
Now he's playing in the CFL for a championship. At least somebody with Vikings lineage is playing meaningful football this November.
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