The Thanksgiving holiday is all about spending time with family and friends and to give thanks for the bounty of blessings we have received during the past year. Which usually takes about 15-20 minutes.

The rest of the day is about enjoying the bountiful blessings of oversized men smashing into each other at high rates of speed. You see, Thanksgiving is really a celebration of football, and there’s no better way to celebrate than to mix it with America’s other favorite pastime, drinking.

So to add further excitement to your football-watching holiday, here is The Bachelor Guy’s Official Thanksgiving Day Football Drinking Game.

Necessary equipment:
1. Working television set.
2. Other people (playing drinking games alone is a bad sign)
3. Plenty of your favorite libations.

Rules:
During the games, everyone takes a drink whenever any of the following happens:

1. CBS and/or their announcers show off their incredibly lame Thanksgiving Game MVP trophy.

2. Any close-ups of celebrity "fans" that are in attendance at the game - who (as coincidence would have it) also happen to star in that network's shows.

3. If announcers plug any of the following shows right as a play is about to develop:
CSI (any version)
60 Minutes
Two and a Half Men
Survivor
House
The Simpsons
Family Guy
The Next Great American Band
American Idol

BONUS: Everyone takes a second drink if the other announcer makes some lame comment designed to make us think he actually watches the show.

4. Whenever there is a shot of a completely unappreciated behind-the-scenes crew member waiving to the camera while mouthing "Happy Thanksgiving" to his family at home celebrating without him, as the announcers say how much they appreciate him and his "efforts" - shout "Here's to you!' and drink in his honor of working during the holiday to put this game on so you don't have to spend the night talking to relatives. (Take a second drink if his kids are mentioned.)

5. Any time there is a gratuitously long close-up shot of the cheerleaders. (Actually do not drink for this, just ogle.)

6. If the animated FOX football-playing robot shown before and after commercial breaks is dressed as a turkey, pilgrim or Indian, take 5 drinks.
BONUS: FOX is running a contest to name this robot. The first guy in your group to actually attempt to come up with a name has to take 3 drinks. If the name he comes up with is something lame like "Robo-Back", hit him with the bottle. ...There's more