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Black Friday Football! Week 13
Four months ago, Amazon sold the last commercial spot they had for today’s Black Friday game.
Brands are paying $650,000–$750,000 for 30-second spots.
Last year the Black Friday game had 9.61 million viewers (that’s about 2.2 million viewers fewer than the TNF average), but Black Friday viewers are 78% more likely to search for advertised products compared to other NFL broadcasts.
Cyber Week online spending is expected to hit $40.6 billion. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is expected drive up to $18.5 billion in 2024 online spending, up 11.4% from the previous year.
More than 15 million unwanted clothes are shipped to Ghana every week. Beaches in Ghana are covered with discarded clothes, showcasing the tangible impact of global waste.
Globally, approximately 13 million phones are discarded daily.
Could you go a year without shopping?
In the Opinion essay “My Year of No Shopping,” Ann Patchett writes about her 2017 New Year’s resolution, which she has kept:
I came up with my own arbitrary set of rules for the year. I wanted a plan that was serious but not so draconian that I would bail out in February, so while I couldn’t buy clothing or speakers, I could buy anything in the grocery store, including flowers. I could buy shampoo and printer cartridges and batteries but only after I’d run out of what I had. I could buy plane tickets and eat out in restaurants. I could buy books because I write books and I co-own a bookstore and books are my business. Could I have made it a full year without buying books? Absolutely. I could have used the library or read the books that were already in my house, but I didn’t; I bought books.
... My first few months of no shopping were full of gleeful discoveries. I ran out of lip balm early on and before making a decision about whether lip balm constituted a need, I looked in my desk drawers and coat pockets. I found five lip balms. Once I started digging around under the bathroom sink I realized I could probably run this experiment for three more years before using up all the lotion, soap and dental floss. It turns out I hadn’t thrown away the hair products and face creams I’d bought over the years and didn’t like; I’d just tossed them all under the sink.
I’m using them now, and they’re fine.
... If you stop thinking about what you might want, it’s a whole lot easier to see what other people don’t have. There’s a reason that just about every religion regards material belongings as an impediment to peace. This is why Siddhartha had to leave his palace to become the Buddha. This is why Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor.” It’s why my friend Sister Nena, an 85-year-old Catholic nun, took a vow of poverty when she entered the convent at 18.
The things we buy and buy and buy are like a thick coat of Vaseline smeared on glass: We can see some shapes out there, light and dark, but in our constant craving for what we may still want, we miss life’s details. It’s not as if I kept a ledger and took the money I didn’t spend on perfume and gave that money to the poor, but I came to a better understanding of money as something we earn and spend and save for the things we want and need. Once I was able to get past the want and be honest about the need, it was easier to give more of my money to people who could really use it.
Numbers with Bet Openly
9: The NFC North is the first division in NFL history to have 3 teams with 9+ wins by the end of Thanksgiving Day.
3: Jordan Love last night: 21 of 28 for 274 yards, 2 TDs and 129.2 passer rating. His third consecutive game with passer rating of 100+.
1: Penei Sewell has now been sacked more times (1) than he's allowed a sack all season (0).
221 [TRIVIA]: 221 coaches have had 20+ career games decided by 7 points or fewer. Which coach has a .227 win percentage in those games (5-17) and ranks 221st?
Quotes
“I will take this W and I’m not going to lose sleep over it.”
“In that situation, I’m living with the call and letting coaches make that decision…maybe in the later years of my career (he may call a timeout himself), right now I get the call and I’m trying to lead my team to a win.”
"I don't know why we ain't call a timeout."
Bears WR DJ Moore
“I appreciate his contributions and him being out there for his teammates.”
Robert Rochell, who recovered the muffed point early in the first quarter for the Packers, was playing with a heavy heart tonight after suffering a tragedy in his personal life, Matt LaFleur says.
Picks
Friday, November 29 at 3:00pm 🛍️
Raiders (+13.5) at Chiefs
This game qualifies as a Luck Rankings matchup:
The Raiders are the "unlucky" team, with a Luck Difference of 29 and a Luck Gap of 36%.
From Week 13 onward, unlucky teams with a Luck Gap of at least 30% are 25-4-1 (85%) against the spread.
If the unlucky team is on the road, as the Raiders are, the record improves to 15-1-0 ATS.
Unlucky teams in this scenario are 4-0 ATS when facing Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, and the Chiefs.
Record
ATS: 29-38-2 (-11.61u)
OU: 32-29-1 (+0.12u)
Highlights
David Montgomery was just happy to have his carrot
Jameson draws an unsportsmanlike conduct for throwing the ball at Stevenson’s face
McDuffie lays the boom to force an incompletion. The Dolphins went for it on 4th down and failed to convert
Before watching the whole video, guess what Xavier Legette was looking forward to eating for Thanksgiving today.