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• T&F - All Good Things -  For The Glory 

• S&F - Imagine Dragons - Believer 

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Trivia

College Note of the Week - Lots of college coaches are getting the axe this week (Texas A&M is paying $77 million to get rid of theirs), but Bosie St is also firing their coach, who is in the middle of a 5-5 season.  If they do end with a losing season, it will be Boise State's sixth losing season since 1947, when it was a junior college and first since 1997.

Good luck “Chase” ing him - Ja’Marr Chase got behind the Texans defense on second-and-12 at the end of the third quarter, making a 64-yard house call to get the Bengals their first touchdown since the opening drive of the game.  That score was the seventh of Chase's career to go for at least 60 yards.  Chase has the second-most receiving touchdowns of 60-plus yards by a player age 23 or younger, trailing only fellow LSU prodigy Odell Beckham Jr.  Beckham had eight receiving touchdowns of at least 60 yards before he turned 24 years old.

T.J. Watt surpasses his brother - T.J. Watt notched his 88th career sack in his 96th career appearance, surpassing J.J. Watt for the second-most sacks in a player's first 100 career games (since individual sacks were first officially tracked in 1982).  The only player with more sacks than either of the Watt Bros. in his first 100 career games was the Minister of Defense himself, Reggie White (105.0).

NFL Trivia - Hall of Famer Jim Brown won not only MVP but also Rookie of the Year and All-Pro his first year out of Syracuse.  Leading the league in rushing, he beat YA Tittle of SF and Johnny Unites (Colts) for the AP MVP.  That year, 2 MVP awards were given, and Tittle won the UPI award.  Neither Brown nor Tittle won the title, with the Detroit Lions winning their last (so far) NFL title that year.

Brown would go on to win two more MVP trophies in a nine-year career that saw him finish as the all-time leading rusher in NFL history.  Brown never missed a game during his career.  He is still 11th all-time in rushing, with 12, 312.  That number was so dominant that when he retired, the next-highest career rushing total was nearly 3000 yards behind him, and he is also known for being maybe the best Lacrosse player in history and an actor with movies like the “Dirty Dozen.” 

Pop-Culture Trivia Answer - So there are a few answers…in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln officially made Thanksgiving a national holiday. This was primarily due to the efforts of Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote dozens of letters to the President and other officials asking for an official holiday.  Hale was also famous as an author, her most famous work being “Mary Had a Little Lamb”!  But, despite the proclamation, it wasn't really celebrated until the 1870s due to the Civil War and its aftermath, and then generally on the 30th of November until FDR came along.   

Franklin D Roosevelt signed a presidential proclamation on Oct 31, 1939, that set the date to the last Thursday in November, primarily to provide an extra seven days of Christmas shopping!  The new date was controversial; many states observed the 30th and the new date in protest.  This ended when FDR got Congress to pass a joint resolution to force the new date starting in 1942. 

“Black Friday” was first used in 1951 or 52 when the journal Factory Management and Maintenance coined the term, initially for workers calling in sick to get a four-day weekend!  Using the term for shopping started in the 70s but didn't take off as a cultural touch-point until the mid to late 80s!