I want to get in the spirit of Thanksgiving. I really do. But there is something bugging the heck out me as I try to digest the endless amounts of blatant Turkey Day propaganda floating around the media outlets. The biggest is all the fuss being made over a protein that apparently has been linked to causing throngs of turkey eaters to drop into deep slumbers shortly following Thanksgiving dinner.

Let me take you back to the scene of the crime. It was about 1 p.m. on an random weekday afternoon last week, and I had just finished a test. A brother was hungry. Walking along the catwalk outside of the fine arts center, I glanced at Garrett Food Court as an obvious and nearby choice to satisfy my midday hunger beast.

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He never sits still. He never stands still. I even wonder if first-year Hilltopper football head coach David Elson can be still enough to go to the dentist. Even when he’s sitting he’s moving his hands or something. Elson’s energy level is what drives him.