Ok, it seems like just yesterday we witnessed the coming and going of midseason and well here comes Week 12, signalling the close of the 3rd quarter of the season, meaning after this Thanksgiving week's games, we only have 4 weeks left until the playoffs.  What an outrage.  This realization hit me hard last night when I started flipping around as my Broncs were busy keeping ahead of the Titans and stumbled across a Duke vs Princeton basketball game--holy smokes...college basketball is having preseason tournaments already?! 

 

Anyway, unto WEEK 12 (and remember, get your picks in early, as I mentioned this is Thanksgiving and there are games on prior to this weekend):

 

 

Thanksgiving Day Games:

--  The Pack in Motor City*

--  Jets @ Cowgirls

--  Colts in Hotlanta**

 

Sunday Games:

--  Saints @ Panthers

--  Raiders @ Chefs

--  Texans @ Brownies

--  Bills @ Jags

--  Shawks @ Rams

--  Remember the Titans @ Bengals

--  Skinny in Tampa Bay*

--  Vikes @ GMEN

--  9ers @ Zona

--  RaVEns @ Chargers

--  Broncos @ Bears

 

--  SNF:  Philly @ NE

--  MNF:  goldphish @ Steelers*

 

 

*Ok so I was feeling a little zany this morning, and I exercised no editorial oversight to whatever came first to my typing fingers, so I decided to inlcude a quick note to decode or clarifiy what some of these names to the teams are:  Motor City=Detroit; Hotlanta=Atlanta; Skinny=Redskins; goldphish=Dolphins. 

 

*Ah, the dreaded Red Asterisk, what could it be?  First of all, I'd like to take this time to rip the NFL for giving us 2 dome games out of 3 Turkey Day games.  There's nothing like celebrating Thanksgiving by enjoying family, friends, feast, and arena football; thanks a lot Roger.  And Roge, while I'm at it, especially thanks for that Atlanta game.  Way to go.  Now, we all know the NFL likes to peddle Peyton on the populace as if the world is ending tomorrow, but Atlanta?  You couldn't find a worse sports town, and a sorrier franchise so why reward them with a coveted Thanksgiving Day game?   You might as well send the Colts into Miami, or better yet, just let Manning drop into your nonexistent L.A. franchise and let him talk to the camera for 3 hours.  If ever there was a game to flex, this is it.  Colts v Falcons on Turkey Day.  How awesome is that?  Detroit and Dallas are for whatever reason locks for having TDay games.  Fine.  Even though the Lions are maybe above average this year, we accept that they're going to suck 8 or 9 out of 10 years and still be on Thanksgiving day.  But don't even try to start sliding in the Falcons as yet another suckass team we have to endure.  And yeah, in yet another DOME.  God!  Domes suck ass and they ought to be banned by the NFL.  Anyway, I was saying, you have Flex now, why not flex this game out and flex in that Philly-Pats game?  Or even that Vikings-Giants game.....come on...the Falcons....what a missed opportunity....Roger has been cracking down on the league's player misconduct, but he needs to extend that to the franchise and the owners to truly tackle the issue.  The Falcons should not be on a primetime, no other show in town sort of slot.