Interesting observations. I'm a man and I agree about the football on Thanksgiving. It takes away from the family experience as we men turn into a bunch of zombies. Now they have games from 1PM to almost midnight. As much as I love football, I do not have the TV on at all in the house today. We play some music over the stereo and play board games or cards together. In fact in a few minutes, we are heading out for our traditional Thanksgiving Day after-dinner walk. We go about 3 miles in a loop around our neighborhood with the dogs and all as the sun sets.
Kitchen is already mostly cleaned up with some wines and pies to come back to after the walk.
Sounds like the old days.
Of course, when I was a kid, we didn't even have a TV.