Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all enjoy the long weekend, but it is, alas, the final weekend of the regular season. For some, their teams will move on to bigger, better games, e.g., the B1G CCG, CFP, and bowl games, while for others, their teams will head home, lick their wounds, and try to regroup for next year.
In this edition of Where We Be, What We Be Drinking, our “writers” will let you know their Thanksgiving and/or gameday plans. It absolutely will not be watching games.
BoilerUp89:
In Cincinnati. Probably go see a movie with the niece and nephew. Drinking ICEE?
BRT: Thanksgiving in North Carolina, then flying back during the Husker game on Friday (thankfully)… so probably drinking ginger ale.
(Anyone else ONLY drink that on planes?) Saturday is time to decorate for Christmas!!! Perhaps some festive spiked hot chocolate in front of the tree once it’s up.
HoustonBoiler: I usually only have sparkling water on planes unless I have scored an upgrade, which is very, very rare.
deadread: Ginger ale is great at altitude. You know what else? Tomato Juice.
Altitude brings out the best in both.
BuffKomodo: On a bench at the Mason Arena. Checking scores periodically when I can sneak them in or get the kids to give me updates. Drinking water since I’ve been sicker than a dog this last week.
HoustonBoiler: I hope you feel better soon! And by all means, please do not share with the kids or receive from the kids.
lincolnparkwildcat: I’ll be at home in the Chicago suburbs, drinking some Christmas beer.
MNWildcat: THIS TIME I’ll really be in northwestern wisconsin at the cabin. It’ll be a nice, relaxing time with my in-laws and daughters, I’m sure super calm, with lots of time to sit around and enjoy HAT game.
We’ll have some Castle Danger sampler pack stuff, a little Perlick vodka, and perhaps the leftover wine and whiskey from Thanksgiving that my mother-in-law doesn’t know my father-in-law and I have been sneaking.
Update: JUST KIDDING! LittleKit (aka MNWildkit2 aka SmileyKit) has Hand, Foot, and Mouth, which she picked up from visiting our friends in madison. (There’s a lesson in there, kids.)
Anyway, this is the third straight illness-scuttled trip to the cabin for me, but I’m trying to convince the wife to take MNWildkit (aka BigKit aka ScowlKit) so she can see her folks and relax for a day or two.
Regardless, thanks to the festering sore that is wisconsin, I will be spending Saturday at home on the couch, disinfecting everything while hopefully managing a relatively happy child who loves to smile and just started crawling today. With any luck, when she goes down for the night I’ll nip this Czech pils from Luce Line.
BuffKomodo: THAT FUCKIN SUCKS!
MC ClapYoHandz: Fight every instinct and avoid your child at all costs, that shit sucks so hard.
BuffKomodo: The only time I’ve questioned being a parent was when I got hand foot and mouth the first time.
BoilerUp89: That’s a bummer mnw.
misdreavus79: I won’t be home for thanksgiving itself, but should be back by Saturday, where Penn State and Rutgers are in a battle for who gets to go bowling.
This will probably be the highest stakes game these two teams ever play.
AlmaOtter: The location: Northern Virginia.
The food: BBQ ribs for Thanksgiving (your turkey sucks and you should try harder), pulled pork and arancini balls for The Game and The HAT on Saturday.
The hooch: I’ve got a good haul of Equilibrium Brewing, so some of that. Maybe some cheap Italian red wine too?
He was a high school QB: What kind of animal is an arancini and what do their balls taste like?
AlmaOtter: Risotto shaped into a ball with cheese in the center, then fried. The balls, they taste amazing when they hit your mouth.
BRT: ^^^applies only to arancini balls.
Brian: This week? Where else but Ann Arbor.
thumpasaurus: Due to a rare thanksgiving in the Chicago suburbs, I have an opportunity to go to Champaign for the hat game for the first time since I went in 2013 with my dad. Despite the loss, that was a fun memory and I’m glad I went.
This will be different. Thanks to the 6:30 game time, none of my area friends are going to the game. My wife, who will be with me, is seven months pregnant. It’s going to be a cold ass empty Memorial Stadium, especially with how quickly the townies go back into hiding once the football team eats shit against a losing opponent. And they’re right to do so: I have never been more sure that Illinois will lose a football game.
I cannot conceive of a single scenario in which i have any fun going to this thing. so what I’ll do instead is head back home Saturday morning so as to not make this holiday weird for my family with the crash out I’ll inevitably go through. i have about a third of a bottle of Malört and the same amount of barrel aged Malört.
deadread: This reads like the first paragraphs of a Rolling Stone think-piece, tbh.
RockyMountainBlue: Well it’s Thanksgiving weekend, so that means I’ll be…in my basement knocking back some iced tea. I am nothing if not predictable.
deadread: Beautiful Downtown Lincoln is where I’ll be. There will be friends, family, and football fun. It will be a production.
HoustonBoiler: At home, where Mrs. HB and I will be entertaining a friend of ours on Thanksgiving, while drinking wine and champaign.
On Friday, we’ll be cleaning up and decorating. Weather permitting, I may even spread some mulch. In the evening while my team has the snot beat out of it, we will be enjoying more wine, and perhaps more champaign.
Wash, rinse, and repeat for Saturday, when I hope the volleyball team makes up for the football team’s shortcomings.
Now you know where we’ll be and what we’ll be drinking. Please share your Thanksgiving and/or gameday plans in the comments.
