Paul's Perspective
Thanksgiving Memories Filled (Mostly) With Football
My Thanksgiving memories seem to all correlate with football for some reason.
November 28, 1991 was not one of those mild, calm Thanksgiving Days that happen on rare occasions in the Chicago area. No, that was one of the wicked, freezing, snowing, when-did-January-get-here kind of Thanksgiving Days. And as a 15-year-old growing up in the north suburbs of Chicago, Mundelein to be exact, all I could care about was the fact that the Bears were playing Detroit on national television that day. As the final preparations for the Thanksgiving feast are being handled that morning, let's face it; I'm not much help. The Bears and Lions are in a rare playoff battle. In fact, the Lions won the division at 12-4 that year, with the 11-5 Bears taking a wild card spot in what turned out to be Mike Ditka's final playoff appearance as…
