Thanksgiving is a fun-filled day of family, friends, food, and football.

Your friends and family come over to your house, make themselves at home and help in the ultimate goal of preparing a delicious Thanksgiving meal.

And whether you’re a part of a family that eats its annual Thanksgiving dinner before noon or even more around five o’ clock; football is amongst us.

Well, sort of.

It’s hard to call blowouts like Packers-Lions and Cowboys-Raiders a football game. More like a scrimmage where fantasy points still count. Thank you Donald Driver and Miles Austin, by the way.

Honestly, nobody wants to see games where twenty-point leads aren’t surprising; nor do people want to see Lions play. Ever.

Sure, it’s a tradition for the Lions and Cowboys to split the Thanksgiving Day games, but this isn’t the – awful yet exciting – Barry Sanders led Lions. This is a team that was unexciting and winless last season, and are staring another NFC North last-place season in the eyes.

As for the Raiders, why were they even chosen to play in this game against the Cowboys on national TV? Yeah, they’re better than the Lions, but not by much. It’s almost like that ugly sister of your uglier friend. I mean, I guess she’s better, but only because it can’t get any worse.

I will even go as far to say that even though Mark Mangino might send me back to Oakland with a paper bag, I’d rather prepare a Thanksgiving dinner for him – even in this bad economy – than watch the Lions and Raiders play back-to-back games.

Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke on the topic and unsurprisingly he said there are no plans to take away the Lions Thanksgiving Day game in the future, according to NBC Sports.

Hey, it’s Goodell’s ratings, not mine. If only the NFL implemented a plan where only talented teams play on Thanksgiving. There should be no more Lions or Raiders games on Thanksgiving.

If the NFL wanted to make fans happy – and heighten ratings – they’d play the two top teams from last season in both the AFC and NFC.

However, with all this unlikely; it looks like Mangino will be coming to my house next year for Thanksgiving dinner.