Thanksgiving Football Thread

I don't see a TV in this picture

A slow day in East Blogistan, a great big get together at my in laws' in Charlottesville with my parents and a huge cast of characters. I have football, a fridge full of beer and a bottle of Knob Creek, let the day begin.

0130: stagger home drunk on bourbon from neighbors house after playing Guitar Hero III on Xbox 360 for five hours. Quiver in bed with eyes closed for six hours.

0730: awakened by children, fall into shower, pack for trip. We will be leaving the kids with the in laws and staying in a hotel grown up style.

0845: depart for Charlottesville, one cup of coffee in me.

1045: arrive Charlottesville, child does not poop his pants.

1100: push children in rope swing at Camp Grammie until dehydration headache sets in.

1130: dart to gas station, fill up tank, buy beer and ice for party, sneak a bag pork rinds and a Fanta Strawberry.

1230: parents arrive Charlottesville, discuss Redskins season chances with original Redskins fan named Ben Folsom. Consensus is that it will be a tough road.

1245: start to riot, call for TV to be turned on.

1800: party's over, heading to hotel.

1830: vege.

2020: leave hotel for a bar with NFL Network because the fucking Hampton Inn does not have NFL Network.

2025: check movies playing at theater adjacent to hotel. Fred Claus, This Christmas, Bee Movie and American Gangster, nothing we can agree on, move on.

2040: arrive Corner, go to Orbit, the billiards bar where we watched the NFL Network game last year. Notice the Arizona State - USC game is on the big screen, relegating the IND-ATL NFL game to a small TV over bar. Despite near emptiness of bar on Thanksgiving night get ignored at both upstairs and downstairs bars. Leave without buying a drink.

2100: arrive Downtown Mall, walk length of Mall, note Hardware Store restaurant is now closed. Too bad, this is where my brother bribed the place so he could have graduation dinner in 1994 which he would not have had to do if he had planned ahead.

2115: enter Rapture, have one Stella Artois, see one of wife's Hollywood friend in town, he is worried about the writer's strike impacting his ability to work. Leave after one drink.

2200: enter Miller's, voted Charlottesville's most tobacco friendly bar for 2007 by Cville Weekly. Have one Baker's bourbon and send text messages out to all Wahoo friends re: UVA-VT football game Saturday, this game will determine which team from the Coastal division represents in the ACC Championship Game. Text of message is as follows: Lol i can has cavs win beeg juan? Depart bar after one drink.

2215: no other places on Downtown Mall are open. Depart for hotel, we are both sober.

2230: arrive hotel, watch inane TV, post evening activities to blog.

2243: set alarm for NO KIDS and sleep. Happy Thanksgiving!


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