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It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and we’re feeling pretty appreciative here at For The Win. So while we work through digesting yesterday’s meal, and suspect you are doing the same, we wanted to write a quick note about what we’re thankful for this year.
1. We are thankful that we get to write about sports for a living. Like, what? How is that a job?
2. We are thankful for the stuffing we gorged on last night, and our families, and friends who are family.
3. We are thankful that we are alive to watch Lionel Messi play soccer. It’s cool to watch a genius, a real genius, someone who is better at something than anyone ever has been before. On this same token, we are thankful that we got to see Tiger Woods in his prime, and Simone Biles, and Katie Ledecky and Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams and Roger Federer, and all the other GOATs we have gotten to witness.
4. We are thankful that the Egg Bowl exists, and we got to enjoy a player in that game pretending to pee on a field along with our pumpkin pie.
5. We are thankful for the Dallas Cowboys, because while our families may disagree with on politics, music, movies, and politics again, we can all come together and agree that Jason Garrett may stink, but Jerry Jones is the real problem there.
6. We are thankful for Klay Thompson. Just, him. All of him. Same for Bill Walton.
7. We are thankful for Lamar Jackson, who has taken over the league in the most fun way possible.
8. We are thankful for Stephen A. Austin for upsetting Duke. Well, our editor Nick Schwartz went to Duke, so he might have an issue with it, but the rest of us are very thankful.
9. We are thankful for Alex Trebek, a perfect man.
10. Mostly, we are thankful for you, our readers. Without you all, we’re just a group of people shouting things into the void. (We do that sometimes anyway with our weirder posts, but that’s fine.) Your feedback, humor, and readership is what gives this site life and makes it all worth it for us. So, thank you.
Now go enjoy that holiday weekend. There are sports to watch, and we’ll be watching them with you.