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JETS KNOW FOWL PLAY; LIONS, SKINS WILL GET STUFFED

Perhaps it is appropriate that the New York Jets are included on the National Football League’s busy Thanksgiving Thursday schedule.
If any team can relate to fowl play in the Excited States this season, it’s certainly Rex Ryan’s motley crew, which has been stuffed six times in its first 10 games, leaving diehard fans rolling over in their gravys.

The New England Patriots, with a Tom (Brady) at quarterback  -- Tom is a male turkey for those not up on barnyard gobbledygook – hope to feast on the Jets in one of three games dressed up on the NFL menu.

In the day’s early game, 9:30 a.m. in Vancouver and later in Newfoundland, the powerful Houston Texans are in Detroit to face the meat-and-potato Lions, while at 1:15 p.m. RG3’s Washington Redskins visit Dallas to tangle with the Cowboys, who have been known to whip up pumpkin-like performances at their posh Arlington stadium this season.
So, who’s going to win? And why? Drum(sticks) roll, please:

The surging Patriots will ground the Jersey-based Jets in a 5:20 p.m. game, and frustrated fans will start squawking that their team bites so bad Thursday it should be renamed Fangs-giving.

The experts say the Pats will prevail by at least seven points. Despite the all-Sanchez, all-the-time fan club led by my drooling wife (speaking of desperate housewives!) the Jets are going to get tarred and feathered real bad. Yep, they're plucked!

Methinks the Cowboys (5-5) will get it right Thursday and baste the Redskins (4-6), while the Texans (9-1), on a pilgrimage to win the Super Bowl this season, will gobble up the Lions (4-6).

It won’t be the first time this week a Lions team gets whipped, but I digress!

To all our friends in the United States, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving, Mark Sanchez included!
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