Happy Thanksgiving Footballers,
I am taking a brief break to step away from pie baking to get this week’s picks out. I was very much looking forward to tomorrow evening eating a second round of that delicious pie while I watch the Steelers crush the Ravens. But, alas, COVID has its say, and now the pie will have to come during the Cowboys v. Football Team game. Boo.
Last week saw a few big moves in the leaderboard. Most notably the perfect pickers moved up on the board: Dana continued her climb, Violet pulled ahead of Heidi (we heard about that for days! here in Dallas) and Dan moved up a few stops as well. We also saw Adam and Paul overtake Bill at the top of the leaderboard. Bill keeps telling me how nice the view is from there, so I hope the two of you enjoy it this week.
Well done everyone this past week, as we didn’t have a single zero – which was a significant improvement from week 10.
Week 12 picks are:
Titans v. Colts
Panthers v. Vikings
Bears v. Packers (Sunday Night Game)
This week when you send your picks, please also do the following:
- Send a picture of you so I can make us a virtual Thanksgiving table – it’s the closest we are going to be to all being together.
- Send me a favorite Thanksgiving memory that you have – can be new or old or very old.
I’ll go first: My old memory is being on Thanksgiving break my freshman year of college on the Metrolink in St. Louis with Mary, Howie, Stephanie, Dianne and Carrie (Dianne’s friend) chanting “Cherry Pie! Cherry Pie!” after a day visiting the sites of downtown.
My very old happy Thanksgiving memory is when we were kids and were supposed to be helping Mom make the relish tray for a big meal. Instead of putting out the items on the tray, I put all the black olives on my fingertips and then ate them one by one. Yum!
Happy Thanksgiving, and GO STEELERS (even if they have to play on Sunday).
Here’s a picture of the Manteeth on our recent adventure to Pea Ridge National Battlefield.
