SPITBALL PICKS: A THANKSGIVING DAY SPECIAL

Surprise, the Spitballers are at it again!  If you think we didn’t have something up our sleeve for Thanksgiving you were wrong.  It’s a holiday special so we will be having some fun with it.  You are getting two picks and a prop from each of us today.  Sit back, enjoy the food, watch football, win some money, and Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

This was Tommy’s idea, and might I add a brilliant one so we will let him kick us off. 

Ahh Thanksgiving day, the football fans Nirvana. There is nothing like getting up out of bed droopy eyed and cotton mouthed from drinking the night before just to watch the Lions play at noon. If you are dumb enough maybe you even think you still “got it” and go out and play pickup football with the buds. Now you get to watch the lions with two pulled hammys and a sore back. It’s ok because when you stuff your face later with food it will all be forgotten! Over here at spitball we have a special thanksgiving day pick where we will serve ya two picks and add on some gravy with a nice prop pick. So here goes nothing…I hope everyone has a great holiday!

Pick 1 “Appetizer”

Bears -3 at Lions

In the last 20 years the Lions are 5-20 on turkey day. In the last 3 months the Lions are 0-9-1. They just came off a close game and covered as double digit dogs against the browns and now they are dogs at home against a much weaker opponent in the Bears. I would have guessed this would be more of a pickem, but as it stands the line favors the bears so, so do I. Get that bet in and then go back to sleep to get some rest for the real games that come later on. Oh wait! Don’t forget to catch Santa at the end of the Macy’s Parade! 

Pick 2 “Main course”

Cowboys vs raiders over 51 

Not much research has been done on this pick. I don’t like the spread because of that damn .5 pt. One would think this would be a closer game with all the injuries to the Cowboys and both teams coming off losses needing a win in this spot. I hate taking Cowboys because I always think the public influences the spread. Also, what better to cheer for than points on thanksgiving afternoon! While we are stuffing our faces with turkey let’s hope they are stuffing the end zone. That was horrible haha. Gobble gobble!

Pick 3 “The Gravy”

Prop pick: Cowboys player goes in Salvation Army pot (YES)

This probably isn’t actually play (if it is let me know) but it’s a holiday so let’s have some fun. Nothing gets the juices flowing like Zeke sitting in the salvation pot eating…EATTTTT

Brian’s Picks

There’s many things one can do to damaging excess on Thanksgiving.  Drinking to the point where you indulge your slightly-off uncle a bit too deeply into his obsession with QAnon.  Smoking yourself into a hole to the point where it’s taking Grandma 18 minutes to pass the potatoes.  Spending time with friends and loved ones, it can all leaving you holding onto the abandoned downstairs couch for dear life.  Gambling is no different. Anyone with a hint of degeneration flowing through their veins can’t help but put on a show for the extended family.  You pace around the playroom lamenting how much the fucking Bills are costing you this year, cursing the pumpkin pie in your clutches for somehow burying the under.  I’ve been there, if our eyes meet through the star-crossed crowd, just know that I understand.  What you need is a plan, a go-big or go-home statement akin to tea bagging the turkey (once it’s cooled, safety first).  Three teams, one total, I present to you the Thanksgiving Parlay of the Year, no, the Century.  Get your beauty rest, I’ve been up since 4:45 this morning breaking the board open.  Skip the Bears-Lions, don’t touch it, don’t even fucking look at it.  May I suggest The Last Waltz?  45 years ago today, The Band put on one of the best concerts you’ve ever seen.  Marty Scorsese turned it into a hell of a documentary.  It’s a triumphant love letter to rock music and late 70s recreational cocaine use that is truly fun for the whole family. Quite simply, everything the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears are not.  

 Our Thanksgiving Parlay of the Century includes not three, not two, but ONE NFL game.  The Vegas Raiders are gripping to their playoff lives, and the Dallas Cowboys injury report is filled with names few would be surprised to see on an All-Pro team.  Raiders +7.5 is by far and away the most appealing number on the board.  Get your NFL fix with the silver and black, and to get under the skin of that one guy in the family decided to be a bandwagon Dallas fan in 1992.  Combine Raiders +7.5 with San Jose State +7.5, Mississippi State -2.5 and MST/Ole Miss Under 64.5.  We went 4-1 last Sunday, today we go 4-0.  Take the load off Fanny, take the load for free.  Take the load off Fanny and put the load right on me.

Four-Team Parlay:  

San Jose State Spartans +7.5 vs. Fresno State Bulldogs (3:30 PM)

Las Vegas Raiders +7.5 @ Dallas Cowboys (4:30 PM)

Mississippi State Bulldogs -2.5 vs. Mississippi Rebels (7:30 PM)

Miss St vs. Ole Miss UNDER 64.5

Nick’s Picks 

There is nothing I love more than getting to Thanksgiving with the fam and explaining to everyone that I still gamble.  My uncle’s will then call me an idiot and my cousins will laugh when my picks lose.  But that is one of the many beautiful things about this top-tier holiday.  Yes, I still gamble, I will yell at the TV in front of everyone, and I will make money. 

Lions +3

First pick is the Lions.  The Lions and Thanksgiving day are a knot that will never untie.  I am going to bite right into this turkey leg.  The Bears are on the cusps of blowing up the whole operation.  It is a tradition like no other.  Bet the Lions on Thanksgiving day.  The Bears stink, the Lions win outright, sprinkle that money line but hammer these 3 points.

Cowboys -7.5

Might be the sucker pick of the year, but this is where we ban together and all beat Vegas as one.  The Raiders stink, and the Cowboys are good.  They had a rough game last week but they had a tough matchup. The Cowboys are absolutely going to blowout the Raiders today.  They are going to pull away in the NFC East, and everyone is going to hate it.  How ‘bout them Cowboys?

Prop: Lions score first, +100/Even

We are winning money early.  The Lions are going to score on the first drive of the game.  Text/DM/Message me letting me know you won money by 12:45.

Dan got called into work and when OT calls you go, especially as a dad!

Dan likes the Bills -6.5 and the Cowboys -7.5.

Thanks to all of you for tuning in on the holiday.  From the whole Spitball Crew, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!