Thanksgiving Proclamation: Hope, Healing, Unity, Acceptance…and Football

November 24, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

We've been here before, America. We've arrived at many Thanksgivings of the past divided, confused, anxious, depressed, frightened and disillusioned.
Thanksgiving has been with us since the end of the Revolution, through terrorist attacks, segregation, two world wars, a Great Depression, the Civil War, slavery and the burning of the White House to the ground.
Football has been part of Thanksgiving longer than you think. High schools and Ivy League colleges played Thanksgiving football in the 19th century, when the South was still occupied by Union forces. The NFL has played on Thanksgiving through Prohibition, soup kitchen lines, the McCarthy hearings, civil rights marches, Watergate and more, only pausing for a few years during World War II.
We go through our rituals this year of prayers, turkey and pigskin, hoping to feel better. It isn't just the bitterly divisive election that has left us feeling fragile. It has been a year of shootings in the streets, shootings in n...

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