Turkey + football = Thanksgiving
Every year, millions of families across America do two things on the fourth Thursday in November … gorge themselves and watch football. Yesterday saw six of the biggest teams in the league go at it: New England took on Detroit, New Orleans went head to head with Dallas, and Cincinnati went up against New York.
Takeaway sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin joins us to recap the Turkey Day winners and losers, and preview what’s coming up over the weekend.
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