NFL News:

Not a lot worth mentioning today, what with Thanksgiving tomorrow & most NFL offices taking today off because they have to work Friday.

• No Truth Biscuit on Thursday versus the Lions.
  • Trubisky was downgraded from “questionable” to “doubtful” for Thursday’s game on Wednesday morning.
    • The short week is partly to blame, as Coach Shanahan Nagy indicated Trubisky would probably play if the game were Sunday.
  • In his place, Chase Daniel. who has started a whole two games in his nine-year career – and who hasn’t thrown a live-game pass since 2016.

• Aaron Rodgers has donated $1 million to the relief efforts in northern California.
  • “I’m partnering with the North Valley Community Foundation and donating $1 million to help with recovery and eventual rebuild of these communities.”
    • Rodgers added his long-time partner, Erin Olivia Danica State Farm, will donate $1 up to $1 million through the State Farm Neighborhood of Good program.
  • The donation is conditional on the firefighters letting his parents’ place burn to the ground.
  • FYI – I typed this post at 11:00AM PT, and an hour later Deadspin tells me it somehow escalated beyond the hyperbole I’d already gone with.

https://twitter.com/JRodgers11/status/1065302831656329217

• Adrian Peterson is in trouble for talking about beating hitting spanking his kids again.
  • He told Bleacher Report in an extended piece on his rejuvenated season that he spanked his son with a belt “the other day”.
  • It’s a problem for the NFL because, even though he served his probation from the original incident, his reinstatement to the NFL after that was dependent upon his agreeing to go through counseling and be a better father to his children.
    • From the League’s suspension letter in 2014: You must commit yourself to your counseling and rehabilitative effort, properly care for your children, and have no further violations of law or league policy.
    • Such an admission might violate Roger Goodell’s vaunted personal-conduct policy.

• Derek Carr is openly trying to get out of Oakland.
  • How else can you explain his statement that “I want to mess up the draft. I don’t want the first pick.”
    • In the same interview, he said his top priority is to get the team to a place where they both don’t end up with the first pick and get accused of tanking.
  • Meanwhile, at a Supercuts in Sacramento, CA, a homely man in a white track suit laments to the hair technician that the angry red man who babysits him yelled at him and his dad’s ghost won’t do anything about it.

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • Leafs at Hurricanes – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
  • Habs at Devils – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
  • Flyers at Sabres – 7:30PM | NBCSN
  • Sens at Wild – 8:00PM | Sportsnet360
  • Jets at Flames – 10:00PM | Sportsnet
  • Canucks at Ducks – 10:00PM | Sportsnet1
• NBA:
  • Raptors at Hawks – 7:30PM | TSN
  • Lakers at Cavaliers – 8:00PM | ESPN
  • Thunder at Warriors – 10:30PM | ESPN / TSN
• NCAA:
  • Basketball:
    • Marquette vs. Kansas – 7:00PM | ESPN2
    • Maui Invitational – Seventh-place game 9:00PM | ESPNU
    • Middle Tennessee State vs. Virginia – 9:30PM | ESPN2

Enjoy your turkey tomorrow, you gluttons. I’ll be at work, listening to the games on the radio & teaching teenagers what the phrase “going from left-to-right across your radio dial” means.

OLD SCHOOL!