Runway Challenge, Thanksgiving edition

Love to eat turkey........Love to eat tur-hur-key.

It's official. I'm jammed full of turkey. I also have Adam Sandler's "Thanksgiving Song" etched into my brain. Suppose that's better than the songs usually running through my head, like the theme from "Blues Clues" or some other mind-numbing kiddie show my one-year old watches between 6-8 a.m. every morning. Sorry. I'm losing you already with children's television references. Back to business.

Hope everyone out there had a nice holiday. I did the usual. Covered a high school football game in the morning (Foran 44, Law 28), banged out a story and headed to my sister's for an insanely large dinner with the family. The little guy even got to sample his first taste of turkey, along with peas, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and anything else he could get his hands on. The kid can eat. You can't feed him fast enough. He grabs fist fulls of mashed potatoes with both hands to ram into his mouth in the downtime while the spoon is being reloaded. To be honest, I do the same thing at the weekly media luncheons at UConn.

A few more random thoughts:

• There are tons of Christmas movies, but almost no Thanksgiving movies. Perhaps that's because "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" set the bar too high and is impossible to top. John Candy, Steve Martin and director John Hughes all in their primes. A formula for hilarity. "Those aren't pillows!"

• Netflixed "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", another Judd Apatow movie. Aside from the scene with full-frontal male nudity (an Apatow trend even more disturbing and unfunny than the Farrelly Brothers' gross-out "humor"), it was OK. I mean, I wouldn't watch it again. But it provided a few laughs. I think. Maybe I should have been offended by the whole thing. Apparently, I need an absent third party to tell me what's humorous and what's morally reprehensible these days.

• Not crazy about the new skin for the blog? Me neither. Don't fret. We'll get used to it.

• Saved...by....ze-ro. I hate you, Toyota Motor Company.

Enough. There's a turkey sandwich calling my name. Here are the picks.

Game 1: North Carolina (-7.5) over DUKE

Game 2: Maryland (+6.5) over BOSTON COLLEGE

Game 3: VIRGINIA TECH (-7.5) over Virginia

Game 4: Syracuse (+22) over CINCINNATI

Game 5: TEXAS TECH (-21.5) over Baylor

Game 6: Oklahoma (-7) over OKLAHOMA STATE

Game 7: Georgia Tech (+7.5) over GEORGIA

Game 8: ALABAMA (-14.5) over Auburn

Game 9: Florida (-16.5) over FLORIDA STATE

Game 10: Oregon (+3) over OREGON STATE

Game 11: Notre Dame (+32) over SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Last week's results

1. vinny from east haven 11-2

sammy 11-2

3. kevin 10-3

4. caleb 8-5

5. chip 7-6

gary 7-6

den 7-6

dougo 7-6

9. ian 6-7

wil 6-7

uconnhuskies86 6-7

12. JZ 5-8

sean o 5-8

rich 5-8

15. pete 4-9

Standings

1. Dougo 82

Caleb Mandrake 82

3. Vinny from East Haven 81

4. Chip 77

JZ 77

6. Ian 75

Kevin 75

8. Pete 74

9. Rich 73

10. Sammy 68

11. Sean O 64

12. Den of Stupidity 63

13. Wil 60

14. DanO 56

Gary 56

16. uconnhuskies 86 55

17. Big Donny Bertolotti 29

18. Stretch 21

19. HuskyBarker 5

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