Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, which means it’ll be a light day at With Leather. Burnsy will be enjoying a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, and I’ll be driving an hour south to San Antonio to eat mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and something called “glazed wham”. We’re very different people, but we love you the same.

If you’re like a lot of Americans, Thanksgiving means football. At UPROXX, Kissing Suzy Kolber means football, so here’s my best contribution to the vibe: a clip of Jimmy Junior, Wild Turkey Bourbon spoketurkey, choosing Thursday’s NFL match-ups. He picks the Houston/Detroit, Dallas/Washington and New England/New York games by eating feed out of a particular helmet, and hey, it’s not rocket science, but it’s as statistically valid as anything you’re gonna read at Bleacher Report.

Check out Jimmy’s picks below. “That turkey belongs on my plate” jokes not appreciated. Well, by half of us.

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I don’t know what it is about NBA players that makes them so much more fun to criticize and make fun of than other pro sports stars. Maybe it’s the holier than thou mentality or the rock star “swag” and godlike baller image, but people just tend to either love or hate NBA stars more than other athletes, and that’s typically fine because they seem to like it. And even though a lot of the league’s stars are as transparent as invisible glass, we’re still pretty big suckers for when they break character and the villain becomes the good guy or the good guy becomes the great guy by helping a good cause.

Before heading to Los Angeles for tonight’s game against the Clippers, the Oklahoma City Thunder, which you could argue is a team of good guys and Kendrick Perkins, hit up the City Rescue Mission in downtown OKC to serve food to more than 400 homeless people on Monday. Even if you absolutely loathe the Thunder, you have to admit that this was rather swell of them.

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Rebecca Grant’s Wikipedia disambiguation refers to her as “Sports Reporter, Maxim / FHM Model”. TMZ, being the Worldwide Leader In Kim Kardashian Excuses and Justin Bieber Baby Mama Drama, turns a five second interview with her about what she’s doing for Thanksgiving into a minute-and-a-half piece that simultaneously starts some sh*t with Erin Andrews and tries to get them to have sex with each other. It’s the kind of thing they’d give an award to, if the Emmys wasn’t an institution built on payola and gave awards to catty pricks in indoor wool beanies.

If we’re picking sides, though, I’m going with Erin. Sure, Rebecca is pretty hot, but she’s hot in a way that makes you think you could win her by throwing balls at milk jugs at a carnival. She looks like she should be Megan Fox’s stage mom. Also, Erin Andrews is a sideline reporter who just happens to be pretty. Rebecca’s resume says “former co-host of ‘NFL Under the Helmet’”, but right under it it says “Juggy – ‘Man Show’”. You can watch the FIRE STARTING video after the jump, but be warned, it might make you hate women and men.

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Former “American Idol” contestant Lauren Alaina became the show’s latest singer to be shoe-horned into a NFL broadcast for the sake of synergy, as she sang the National Anthem before yesterday’s game between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers. And as we have come to expect from today’s pop singers, she screwed it up.

Granted, Alaina didn’t complete botch it like some of the other derps we’ve seen in recent history, but she did pause and hesitate for a few seconds before finally remembering the words to the song that we all learned in elementary school. And much like today’s stars, Alaina took to Twitter to clear it all up.

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If I had 1 million complaints about this planet, “too many dog shows” would not be one of them. In fact, there’s a pretty good chance that “not enough dog shows” would be near the top of my list. But at the risk of sounding spoiled in this Thanksgiving season, I can simply be gracious that we not only have the annual Westminster Dog Show and the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship, but also the National Dog Show, which took place last Saturday in Philadelphia. Complaint No. 2 would be that it takes NBC almost an entire week to air this thing.

This year’s big winner was GCH CH Steele Your Heart, a wire fox terrier that took the title of Best in Show. Other group winners included a Dalmation, Whippet, Bernese Mountain Dog, and Australian Shepherd, as well as my dog, who won the coveted title of Grand Eater of Mashed Potatoes Dropped on the Floor.

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On Tuesday, Sonya “Black Widow” Thomas won the Wild Turkey 81 Eating World Championship with a world record 5.25 pounds of turkey downed in ten minutes. The next day — the very same day most blogs with nothing better to write about were getting ready for Thanksgiving and reporting the world record — barred and disgraced “bad boy of competitive eating” Takeru Kobayashi was posting live, streaming video of himself destroying Sonya’s world record by more than two pounds.

Two problems.

First, if you haven’t been keeping up with Takeru Kobayashi, here’s the SparkNotes version … Kobayashi is sort-of the Hulk Hogan of competitive eating, both in that he spent years on top as the only marketable star of his profession and that his name is well known outside of the sport, at least to folks who don’t know about esoteric benchwarmers like “Crazy Legs” Conti.

Kobayashi won six consecutive victories in the Nathan’s Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Competition, but Major League Eating began insisting he sign an exclusive contract (I’m not making any of this up) that would bar him from competing in non-sanctioned events and sever Takeru from his precious hot dog intake. In 2010, while wearing a black t-shirt with “Free Kobi” across the front, Kobayashi stormed the Nathan’s stage to demand his “freedom” from the dispute. He was handcuffed, arrested and taken to jail. They took him off their “wall of fame” and everything.

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