Hapless Bills Fan Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 So here's a question regarding maintenance of winning Game Day rituals. We're now 2-0 in Bills games where I consume that bottle of Josh Cellers 2017 Cab Sauv wine, starting before kickoff and usually finishing in the 2nd half of the game. Obviously the ritual must continue. We will have 12 family members here for Thanksgiving. Eating early (1 pm-ish) so that some of them can make a 4 hr drive home after the meal. Most of the family are teetotallers - strict Southern Baptists - and my SIL no longer drinks alcohol. I guess about 4 of us who would partake of wine at dinner. Do I wait until most of the family leaves to open and drink the Josh, which might extend the opening until after kickoff, or even into the game? Or do I serve the bottle with dinner and likely have it consumed well before kickoff? Dinner will be the traditional Thanksgiving lasagna (red tomato sauce) and garlic bread with veg sides, so it would be suitable. Dessert will be pumpkin pie, the traditional cheesecake my MIL made, and brownies, so a bit heavy to consume the full bottle after dessert. I'm leaning towards "serve with dinner", that as long as it's all consumed before the end of the game it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaw66 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Dinner's at 2 instead of 5. Pie at half time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 My wife and I are leaving Wed. a.m. to drive down to Georgia to see her dad and sister, but we are staying in an AirBNB. Thursday a.m. we will head to her sister's house, where dinner will be at around 1 p.m. (thankfully these Southerners think that is a reasonable dinner time and for once, I don't disagree). Between 3:30 and 4 we will take our leave and head back to our AirBNB where I will watch the game in blissful post-turkey splendor. I am EXCITED for football on Thanksgiving for the first time in 15 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnycage46 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 (edited) My aunt is hosting and they said dinner is at 3ish...not thrilled about that start time as I don't want to be too full for kick-off considering I need to get a buzz on. I think 2 PM would have been the sweet spot for the 4:30 kickoff. Edited November 25, 2019 by Johnnycage46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills fan since 87 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I'll be driving up to my folks place in the ADKs wed night. Let's them and my sister's family know on multiple occasions we will need to eat at 3pm this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoboTronic Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 (edited) We eat at 1:00 PM, people are either passed out or on to their in-laws' parties by the start of the second game. Edited November 25, 2019 by RoboTronic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 On 11/24/2019 at 7:26 PM, Gray Beard said: No football for me. Family coming in from out of town. Four generations in one room. No way I’m going to be able to get free. I am happy to spend my day with my daughter, SIL, and granddaughter. It’s the MIL and FIL I can do without. Did I mention that they are Fox News junkies? Since game is on FIX maybe you can do the picture in picture thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 20 minutes ago, Limeaid said: Since game is on FIX maybe you can do the picture in picture thing? I’ll watch it on my iPad. I don’t know if my tv has the capability to do picture in picture. I will also DVR if I decide I want to see it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 10 hours ago, LBSeeBallLBGetBall said: Just me and my dad this year. Dinner at 2 and then Bills football and... randers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLTbills Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 On 11/24/2019 at 5:18 PM, YoloinOhio said: We will likely eat before the game. Usually a mid day meal around 3. Need time to be able to break out the turkey sammiches around 7. Same here. We are shooting for about three. My wife's family understands how important the Bills game is. We normally eat a little later but... Bills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 My wife knows not to schedule anything or expect me to do anything when the Bills are playing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy10 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 4 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: My wife knows not to schedule anything or expect me to do anything when the Bills are playing. Mine either, because she cares about the game as much as I do. We elected to do Turkey Day alone this year, just us and the kiddos. Time the bird for about 60-90 minutes before kickoff, we'll be good to go. Hope to making celebratory turkey sammitches around 7:30. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F.W. Cyclone Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 (edited) On 11/25/2019 at 9:06 AM, Gordio said: That sounds great. I would love to do that. We go over my sisters every year. When the schedule came out I told my wife my son & I are staying home this Thanksgiving as I hate watching the game with 20 people all talking. My wife said "fine my daughter & I will go over my cousins this year." So everything was set until my cousins decided to come in from Vegas for Thanksgiving this year. So now, I can't stiff my sisters because my mom will be very upset so we are going over my sisters. My BIL does have a pretty sweet setup in his basement so I will go down there when the game starts & hopefully everybody else will stay upstairs. My sister had originally invited the whole family over to her house but had to cancel out on it. Her father in-law is in very poor health so my sister and her husband decided to go there instead. But under them circumstances it is reasonable for her to cancel it. Edited November 27, 2019 by Blackkat19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfanmiami(oh) Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 3-3:30 pm dinner. Hosting about 15. One roasted turkey, one fried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLTbills Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 On 11/24/2019 at 5:21 PM, JR in Pittsburgh said: Very tricky. Not hosting this year for first time in a long time, so I am at the mercy of the in-laws (not football fans). The start time for eating is ambiguous “afternoon.” My in-laws understand my passion for the Bills and texted me a week ago... "so I guess we need to start dinner early, around 3, right?" Love my in-laws. Haha. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 I'm in California & my family rotates the houses. We usually eat around 2-3 PM. I found out yesterday that while we're going to be eating during the game, this year's house will be one that the TV is visible from the dinner table & they already know to seat me where I can watch the game during Thanksgiving dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franco_92 Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 I'm gonna miss a lot of the game it looks like. My family is full of bills fans but they're the kind that mostly just insult the team and turn the game off when they go down 10-0 in the first quarter with a "typical Bills, they'll never be good" exclamation 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCOrange Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 I’m like 80% sure I won’t be able to watch the game at all. Might be able to watch the first few minutes and maybe catch the end if I’m lucky but I’m a guest this year and dinner is at 5:00 and these families generally stretch dinner out over the course of many hours. Wrong year for Buffalo to have a Thanksgiving game haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 On 11/25/2019 at 7:39 PM, Limeaid said: Since game is on FIX maybe you can do the picture in picture thing? What a Freudian slip! Do you know something about Jones bribing the refs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokinES3 Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 On 11/24/2019 at 6:19 PM, Joe in Winslow said: Eating at 3 or maybe even 2, so should be no issue 2:30PM knife to turkey was a prerequisite or I said I wasn't showing up to the in-laws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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