Did you ever think something was going to be great, set aside a whole bunch of prime time for it, party too much during it and then realize that it really wasn’t all that spectacular and worth the ensuing fatigue?

Such was the Thanksgiving Day offering from the NFL.

Chairs were rounded up and man-caves were stocked all over this great land in anticipation of exciting football and…and…each game was a blowout. The highly advertised ‘When Birds Attack’ feature (on the NFL Network, for those of you who have ‘that kind’ of relationship with your cable provider) was no exception.

To recap, we had games decided by 37, 25 and 28-point differentials. Yawn. Tryptophan in full effect.

The Girls do feel sorry for Detroit. The Motor City healing needs to begin in this league of parity and soon. It’s not just that they gave up the most points ever in a Thanksgiving loss, which they did, it’s that other teams mock them. And they are helpless to defend themselves - or even to ’send a late-game message’. Forget 3-D and games in London, Roger, you need to perfect the product before you export it. A little ‘ole effort called the EFL might remind you of this.

Seattle gave up with barely a whimper - allowing Hasselbeck to be sacked 7 times and a pinkie-favoring Romo to pass for 330 yards. Seriously, what does Hasselbeck say to his O-line? “WTF??”?? Big kudos to TO for the single-finger tip-grab. He’s Baaaaaa-aaack!

By the way, did we mention that west coast teams are a whopping 0-15 when they play east coast teams? Wondering now what Tupac and Biggie would say about all this. Speaking of west versus east…

Philadelphia creamed Arizona in the City of Brotherly Love. Westbrook said in his post-game presser that they wanted to send a message in this game. And he did send a 4-TD broadcast. Great. But what about the other 15 games? McNabb? Playing for his life? Who knows, it’s just too chick-drama to get all sorted out.

We’ll have to have a few more leftover meals before we get more NFL. Let’s hope it’s worth the wait.

In the meantime, please enjoy the NY (”We made our bed, but prefer Stephon to lay in it”) Knicks and the LeBron (”Free agent Class of 2010″) James over in the NBA. By the way, nice rant on James by Charles Barkely - and visa-versa. Few would have the prunes.

Safe travels back home.

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