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this Email   small textmedium textlarge text   John Doyle:
Turkey day games need a reboot  Saturday, November 24, 2012  You
can go to a Mardi Gras parade in Baton Rouge, but it's not the
same as seeing one in New Orleans. You can attend Oktoberfest in
Berlin, but it's nothing like the real one in Munich.  That's
sort of how it feels to watch high school football in New
Hampshire on Thanksgiving morning. Sure, it's a lot of fun, but
Massachusetts is where they do it right.  New Hampshire has
neither the precedent nor the season structure that
Massachusetts has, which would make it nearly impossible to
duplicate the scope of the Thanksgiving Day football tradition
our neighbors to the south enjoy every year.  In most cases,
Massachusetts schools play the last game of the regular season
on Thanksgiving. A majority of schools play on that morning,
many in long-standing rivalry games that have a century of
tradition behind them. Even if a team isn't in