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Which Thanksgiving side dish represents your NFL team?

By Jeremy Lambert

STAMFORD, CT - NOVEMBER 24: A Guatemalan immigrant carves the Thanksgiving turkey on November 24, 2016 in Stamford, Connecticut. Family and friends, some of them U.S. citizens, others on work visas and some undocumented immigrants came together in an apartment to celebrate the American holiday with turkey and Latin American dishes. They expressed concern with the results of the U.S. Presidential election of president-elect Donald Trump, some saying their U.S.-born children fear the possibilty their parents will be deported after Trump's inauguration. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
STAMFORD, CT - NOVEMBER 24: A Guatemalan immigrant carves the Thanksgiving turkey on November 24, 2016 in Stamford, Connecticut. Family and friends, some of them U.S. citizens, others on work visas and some undocumented immigrants came together in an apartment to celebrate the American holiday with turkey and Latin American dishes. They expressed concern with the results of the U.S. Presidential election of president-elect Donald Trump, some saying their U.S.-born children fear the possibilty their parents will be deported after Trump's inauguration. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) /
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Thanksgiving is an unofficial football holiday, but is your NFL team one of the good side dishes or a gross one that people avoid?

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. What are you doing reading this article? Go help your parents or significant other with the cooking. You’ll have plenty of time to blow them off when football starts.

Speaking of football on Thanksgiving, since the 1876, football on Thanksgiving has become a yearly tradition. It started with Yale vs. Princeton, became a college staple, and eventually graduated to the APFA/NFL in 1920. That’s the year the Decatur Staleys beat the Chicago Tigers so bad, it was 6-0, that they left the league. The Staleys then moved to Chicago and became the Bears, just to mock the Tigers.

Since then, the NFL has provided us with memorable moment after memorable moment on Thanksgiving. Who could forget Jerome Bettis calling “Headtails” in 1998? Or how about Leon Lett being Leon Lett in 1993? Or, my favorite NFL Thanksgiving Day moment: The “Butt fumble.” Yes, there’s nothing quite like the NFL on Thanksgiving.
And there’s nothing like food on Thanksgiving. It’s the one time a year where you eat things you don’t want to eat because your mom spent five hours getting everything ready instead of throwing things in the microwave. Unless you’re my mom in 2005, when she brought home McDonald’s after we failed to include her in the Rock Em, Sock Em Robots tournament.

My mom is the best.

Here are the NFL teams and the Thanksgiving foods they remind me of.

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