THANKSGIVING WEEKEND FOOTBALL PICKS (No Woman No Cry Edition.....see below)
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Our best bet is our own Fins, away -10 (ouch) against the J..E..T...S Jets Jets Jets starting a new QB and in disarray. But we like Miami with no back-door cover here as the Fins run up the score.
Our best bet is the over 44 in the Seattle/49ers showdown. Geno is back and both teams will be scoring.
If you have to, and we do not like these games at all betting wise, but we like Green Bay +8 in Detroit. The Lions are hot, but the Pack is kinda back and we think they keep it close if not win outright.
Hold your nose and lay the 13.5 with the Cowpokes at home. We got burned saying they would not cover last week, so Dak is back blah blah blah. Just remember this- we CANNOT wait until Dallas makes the playoffs so we can bet our monthly mortgage (not an insubstantial number including the European hideaways) against the Cowboys. But until then, let them run it up in the regular games so they can be a 8 or 9 point favorite and have Detroit blow them out. Losers.
And finally, while we do not often mention college football, we have ridden Meeeeechigan to a very nice winning streak bet wise this season and we are not done yet. Take Big Blue -3.5 at home over Ohio State (and jump on that line right now before the Turkey and Stuffing). No Harbaugh? No problem. No Woman No Cry. It won't be close.
REMINDER: Rumpole Public Service Announcement: Please do not send out Happy Thanksgiving emails. No one cares. It is not as if people are sitting around their Thanksgiving table and just before carving the turkey someone says "Wait we cannot eat until we all read the happy thanksgiving email from Dewey Cheetum & Howe". So just stop it. It clogs our email inbox and is just a rude egotistical act as if people really want to read your email over the holiday when there's the Target email announcing BOGO for Tums or Head & Shoulders as their Black Friday special.
First, you can thank us for giving you that best bet over 22 for the first half of Monday night football. True it didn't hit until 2 seconds left in the half, but it paid, along with the Eagles winning. It's the difference between Opus One at your thanksgiving table and a White Claw.
THANKSGIVING
MAIN COURSE: What is your addition to the turkey? Choose one:
1) Ham; 2) Duck; 3) Prime Rib; 4) Steamed Stripped Bass (H/T Everyone Loves Raymond).
SIDES What are your additions to the stuffing? Choose two:
1) Mashed Potatoes; 2) Sweet Potatoes; 3) Potatoes Au Gratin; 4) Green Beans with mushroom gravy; 5) Red Beans and rice; 6) Black Beans and rice; 7) Maduros;
DESSSERT: What are your additions to Pumpkin Pie? Choose two:
1) Apple Pie; 2) Peach Pie; 3 Blueberry pie; 4) Ice cream; 5) Bread Pudding; 5) Flan;
Rumpole chooses Prime Rib (we have the duck at New Years); Potatoes Au Gratin and Red Beans and Rice; Peach Pie and Bread Pudding. Yum. It was a tough call to choose the rice and beans over the green beans.
The Greatest Thanksgiving TV Episode Ever.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Before you go, a word about the crisis in Israel and Gaza. We've gotten enough grief for daring to speak up for innocent Palestinian civilians, who like innocent Israelis. are being killed because of the unrelenting hate between Israelis and Palestinians.
It might be a nice idea to donate to a charity or two. We've vetted several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who are providing aid to the affected people in the region. You can donate feeling assured these charities do what they say they do.
IsraAID IsraAid is an NGO that is helping with the housing crisis in Israel because 125,000 people have been displaced at the Gaza and Lebanon borders.
Charity Organization for Children | Save the Children Save the children is an NGO formed in WWI whose mission is to save children affected by war. Save the Children is on the ground in Gaza and Israel fulfilling its mission. It is a very worthy charity.
International Committee of the Red Cross (icrc.org). The International Committee of the Red Cross supports the local Red Cross and Red Crescent charities. Formed out of the Geneva Convention after WWII, this NGO has told the leaders in Gaza that all children must be protected and all hostages must be released.
We in the US have a lot to be thankful for in a world where right now there is great suffering.
Enjoy your holiday.
13 comments:
What ever happened to Millennial Me?
Happy Thanksgiving RUMPOLE. Thank you for our beloved blog. You work so hard. Anonymously. We are grateful for your interesting posts and keeping us apprised.
And your stock advice has been spot on for years. Although I think that you missed NVIDIA. Go COTY.
The Red Cross has a history of Jew hating.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/how-the-red-cross-failed-europe-s-jews-and-american-pow-s
I was just wondering the same thing.
Yes, thank you for the Eagles bet. I was able to recoup some of my losses from your 0-5 Sunday day game losers. I followed your advice and bet the Fins minus 13.5 and lost; The Steelers plus 2 and lost; The Texans minus 6.5 and lost; and the Carolina Panthers plus 10.5 and straight up over the Cowpokes, lost and lost. Ouch.
I will not wish you a Happy Thanksgiving because you asked us not to, no one cares (certainly not you), and I would never want to be accused of being egotistical. Instead, I have decided to stand in line beginning at midnight outside Brandsmart so I can purchase an 85-inch TV for $299.
On an entirely separate note, how about that dagger of a loss by Alex Díaz de la Portilla losing his bid for Re-Election in the Miami Commission race. Can you say Karma! Hopefully, somewhere on a beach in the Carribean, retired Judge Fred Seraphin is sipping a cold one and smiling.
Rumpy I am a gringo but I love the black beans and rice and maduros with Thanksgiving. We didn't have that where I grew up in New Hampshire or Wisconsin where I went to college.
I can skip the flan for dessert- not a big fan. Love peach pie with ice cream.
Thanks for a great post
My day. One slice of bacon for breakfast. Cup of black coffee.
Half and apple and one slice of cheddar cheese for lunch and five almonds.
Dinner One slice of turkey -dark meat, tablespoon of stuffing and same for mashed potatos and four green beans. No bread.
Thank you Ozempic!
Down 55
Rump I am a westerner born and raised in Colorado. Came here for a state job in criminal out of law school. Had my head turned by a hot latina and this is my second Thanksgiving with her and her family. No one at their house in Hialeah eats turkey. They all eat the pig they roast in the back in something called a cochina box (??) tons of rice and beans, NO STUFFING, the fried sweet bananas and the other non-sweet bananas also fried in slices, and a whole table of these like fried breaded cigar looking things stuffed with chicken, ham, cheese, and a round potato one with meat inside which I have to admit is decent.
I can handle Thanksgiving- but being a Jew, when last Christmas eve her Mom brought out a birthday cake and the whole family sang Happy Birthday Jessus (in Spanish no less) I quickly chugged the rest of my beer and opened another.
It's been a cultural shock to say the least. Why don't I go home for the holidays? Truthfully, the sex is off the charts great.
I may just make Miami my home- but the hurricanes freak me out (the storms not the team). It was hard enough getting her to leave her efficiency behind her parent's home to my south beach condo, I doubt I can get her to move with me back to Boulder, where we can get like five acres a mile out of town for about a million with a view of the Rockies.
I got a couple of more years to change her mind. Trying for Christmas in Beaver Creek- promised her she could wear a bikini in a hot tub outside when it is snowing and drink a beer.
Thanks for your blog and happy Turkey day mi amigo (I'm learning Spanish slowly)
Prime rib; sweet potato and green beans, Blueberry pie and ice cream.
Miss the Ren a Venue Thanksgiving eve private party. Truthfully, they had a home brewed Root Beer (no alcohol) that was just so foamy and not too sweet. The fried turkey was of course amazing as was the truffle-Uni croquette's which were unique. The ice cream they churned in the back- fresh strawberry with the berries from Homestead, along with the vanilla and organic mint and the Brazilian chocolate nut was the best- and of course all the cool people hanging out. Never got the full story from Shumie why he closed such a hit place.
The REN (a venue) failed because the partners got greedy. They charged $80 as a door fee and those "home made" sodas (which I am pretty sure were not brewed on premises as they said ) cost like twelve bucks a glass. And the food, while decent, especially when Juanky was the chef (before he sold out to a conglomerate in Austin), the prices were outragous. $35 for a plate of turkey and stuffing? I'll pass. Amanda hustling $20 microbrewed beers in her tight shirt and micro shorts was not worth the price (despite her hotness) and the infamous organic cherry cheesecake which they said was flown in weekly from a cherry orchid bakery in upstate New York was most likely a Publix cake. Basically, the Ren was all menu hype - tell some dopey boomer that the bread was baked from a rare yeast and triple the price when it was a Winn Dixie frozen roll and they would pay 15 bucks for a basket of four. Same for the drinks and desserts. Like were there really organically free range turkeys from Wisconsin that were rare and only were sold a year and the Ren got 50 of them? I doubt it.
Go to Chilis. Same food-better price.
Thanks for the Pack over Lions Rump. On to the Cowboys which I stayed away from but I’m rolling the 500 on the Lions on to the over on San Fran / Seahawks. Would be nice to make a thousand that I can give my GF Black Friday.
Yea sounds super unhealthy
Colorado Buffalo: I hope you save that submission for your diary and later memoirs. It was funny, as it wryly and correctly assessed the "cost" of being a non-Cuban and marrying into a deeply cultural Cuban-American family. (LOL for the happy birthday to Jesus part)
I have enjoyed Cuban Thanksgivings, as well as many other and varied ones, and I love the sheer knowledge that Thanksgiving is really the only really American holiday (despite the wonderfulness of 4th of July, it is not a "food event" the way Thanksgiving is), and the varied ways families celebrate simply enriches the wonderfulness of the occasion.
Thanks for sharing.
Rumpole: My favorite item for this meal is the gravy! What mashed potatoes were created to provide a container for!
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