‘Game Over When the Ambulance Arrives.’ 21 Rules for Thanksgiving Family Touch Football

When I wrote my inaugural list of Rules for Thanksgiving Family Touch Football, my motive was simple: A quick holiday weekend column to avoid writing about the Michigan-Ohio State football game. 

Fifteen editions later, I’m still at it: A touch football column to avoid Saturday’s Buckeyes-vs.-Fancy Weasels grudge match. I’m grateful to everyone who reads and shares this tradition, through all your family games, neighborhood feuds, sprained ankles, surgically-repaired shoulders, weddings, graduations, funerals, babies and at least three confused Aaron Rodgers franchises.