Not to start tossing spitwads at the competition, but when I picked up the front page of the Los Angeles Times on Thanksgiving Day, a painful juxtaposition jumped out.
At the top of A1, there's a picture of a 3-year-old girl getting a turkey dinner served to her at the Los Angeles Mission. (The story wasn't worthy of putting on the cover; it made B1, but the picture said it all). Then down at the bottom of the page was a story about people whining because they don't get the NFL Network, and couldn't watch last night's Denver-Kansas City contest.
Boo-freakin'-hoo to you.
Anyone who's been caught up in this greed-vs.-greed contest between Time Warner Cable and the NFL is completely missing the point. No one wins. Everyone gets hosed.
The NFL wants you to keep logging on to its website and cry, cry, cry to your cable system to add its channel. The cable system says its looking out for your best interests by not including it on their basic sports tier.
Enough already.
Or as Off Wing Opinion.com says: This isn't a news story, it's a full employment act for flacks and media beat writers. Wake me when it's over.
And when media beat writers are done acting as puppets for either side.
By the way, during that Chiefs' 19-10 victory, here's what you missed: John Fogerty looking goofy during a halftime show.

-- Last year's USC-Notre Dame may still be etched in everyone's minds, but for another look at it, NBCSports.com has put up a replay of it on its Notre Dame site. It's also broken down into quarters so you can skip to the end. The recent Notre Dame win over UCLA is also up on the site.

--Dick Enberg discusses his first NFL radio broadcast in 30 years -- back when he was doing L.A. Rams games -- in Jay Posner's San Diego Union-Tribune column today.

-- FSN Prime Ticket tried to get one of the CIF Southern Section playoff games today to move to a 4 p.m. kickoff so it could be televised live since it has both Kings and USC basketball broadcasts tonight. Even though St. Bonaventure-Hart has a 3:30 p.m. start on KHTS-AM (1220) at College of the Canyons, FSN decided to put the Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks-Long Beach Poly contest on tape delay starting at 10 p.m. Chris McGee, John Jackson and Lindsay Soto report from Long Beach's Veteran Stadium. KTHS also has the Saugus-Moorpark game at 7 p.m., also at College of the Canyons. Both will be called by Dave Caldwell and are streamed on the station's website. Time Warner's Channel 36 will air the St. Bonaventure-Hart game at 4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

-- Don't forget to surf over to NowInLA.com to find the Daily News-sponsored High School Football show from 7-to-10 p.m., hosted by me and Gerry Gittleson. If you're out at a prep football game and want to call or email in, go for it. Or if you're camped out at home rying to find scores, ry it out. This is the first time we're launching this thing to see how it goes.