3 Memorable Thanksgiving Day Football Plays
Thanksgiving is all about good food, family, and football. Each year, football fans look forward to sitting down and watching the game with their family, regardless of whether or not their team is playing. While many games have been played over the years, some stand out more than others because of some major players and their quick actions. Here are three individuals who made their Thanksgiving Day games ones to remember. Lawrence Taylor New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor was said to have “single-handedly” beat the Detroit Lions in this memorable 1982
Thanksgiving Day matchup. The game was only the fourth of the season for Taylor, who had just recovered from a sprained knee injury suffered in a previous game. With the score tied at 6-6 in the fourth quarter, Taylor intercepted the ball from the Lions quarterback, Gary Danielson, and ran it 97 yards for a touchdown. Leon Lett The Miami Dolphins were up against the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day in 1993. This game was marked by its strange weather: Snow covered the field in Dallas, and temperatures reached only 26 degrees F. But
that wasn’t what made the game memorable. In the last 15 seconds of the game, the Cowboys blocked the Dolphins’ last 40-yard field goal attempt. As the ball was rolling on the ground, Cowboys defensive tackle Leon Lett dove for it but slipped and missed. The Dolphins recovered the ball and were given the chance to kick another field goal at the 1-yard line. The attempt was successful, and they won the game. Phil Luckett One of the most memorable moments during a Thanksgiving game took place in 1998, when the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Detroit Lions entered overtime in a 16-16 tie. Referee Phil Luckett oversaw the coin toss, and that’s when things became tense. Steelers running back Jerome Bettis appeared to call tails, but Luckett said, “Heads is the call.” Upon review later, officials discovered that Bettis changed his mind mid-toss and had indeed called heads first. The Lions got first possession and scored a field goal to win the game.
Lessons Learned From Bizarre Property Legal Cases
Just because a case is very unusual doesn’t mean there aren’t lessons to be learned from it! Here are just a few legal cases that caught our eye. Hollywood Silver Fox Farm v. Emmett Can your neighbor get in trouble for playing loud music intentionally to irritate you? Yes — because the Hollywood Silver Fox Farm got in trouble for a similar issue, except it was about foxes. Silver foxes are very jittery creatures and are likely to miscarry when disturbed during pregnancy — and after the fox farm had a falling out with Emmett, their neighbor, he got his son to fire a gun repeatedly along the border of their land to upset the foxes and disrupt the Hollywood Silver Fox Farm business. In court, Emmett tried to defend himself by saying that foxes were “unusually sensitive,” and he had the right to use his land in any manner he pleased.
However, the court ruled that nobody has “the absolute right to create noises upon his own land, because any right which the law gives him is qualified by the condition that it must not be exercised to the nuisance of his neighbors.” Whew! Presho v. Doohan Imagine finding out that your house has disappeared. That’s exactly what happened to filmmaker and engineer Neville Presho after buying a 150-year-old home from an island off the northern Ireland coast. He planned to film the life of locals on the island and purchased the home in 1982, but settled in New Zealand instead. Still, he kept the house. Then, in 1992, he received an offer for the home for nearly 1/7 of what he wanted to sell it for. Presho refused. Suddenly, in 1994, he received a letter saying that the home was in
terrible shape. This struck Presho as highly unusual, since he knew the structure of the home was sound against any threat of storms. When he flew back to the island, he found out that his home had vanished, and a parking lot for a hotel replaced it. It turned out that the home suffered a fire and was slowly removed as the hotel expanded. He then hired an attorney to help him. Thankfully, the court favored Presho and said that the owner of the hotel, Patrick Doohan, was responsible for trespassing and interfering with Presho’s property, although it was never confirmed if he was the arsonist. Have an interesting real estate story? Share it with us at StevenBrooks@ BrooksAndCrowley.com and maybe we’ll publish it for you in our newsletter!
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