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The Packers haven’t forgotten about Jordan Love’s turkey leg
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The Packers haven’t forgotten about Jordan Love’s turkey leg

This Thursday, the Green Bay Packers will welcome the Miami Dolphins to Lambeau Field for a Thanksgiving evening show on NBC. This will be the second straight year the Packers will play on Thanksgiving after beating the Detroit Lions 29-22 last season. While it was a great win for the Packers, it will also be remembered as the day Jordan Love was denied his turkey leg.

The turkey leg has become an NFL Thanksgiving tradition over the years thanks to the late John Madden and his Turkey Leg Award that was established in 1989. The turkey leg has been renamed over the years and is now known as the Madden Player of the Game and is awarded to the MVPs of the winning teams of the Thanksgiving games. The players will receive a $10,000 donation in their names to a youth or high school football program of their choice and will be offered a turkey feast after the game to enjoy their spoils… Jordan Love last Thanksgiving.

Love, who was named Madden Player of the Game, was denied a turkey leg after the win. Instead, FOX sideline reporter Erin Andrews noted in the post-game interview that he would only receive the donation on his behalf. The other teams that won last Thanksgiving, the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers, were given turkeys after the game, leaving the Packers as the odd ones out. And no one really seems to know why.

Fans immediately noticed and it sparked memes and conspiracy theories, and Packers running back AJ Dillon even started selling “Turkey Gate” t-shirts. There was such an outcry that former NFL tight end and current FOX analyst Greg Olsen defended himself on Twitter after people accused him of ripping Jordan Love’s turducken earlier in the game.

A year later, it seems players haven’t forgotten Turkey Gate. According to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic, Tucker Kraft had some words about the drama after Tuesday’s practice. He called out Olsen for tearing apart the turducken before declaring, “We’ll make sure Jordan gets it this year.”

Kraft wasn’t the only teammate to talk about Turkey Gate this week. While chatting on 97.3 The Game in Milwaukee, AJ brought up Dillon, saying that FOX still owes Love for the oversight and that NBC needs to “get it right” this week. “We won’t forget,” he added.

While it’s still unclear why FOX didn’t have a turkey ready, one can only hope that NBC can fix the turkey leg-shaped hole left in the team’s collective stomach. But before that can happen, the Packers have to take care of business against a surging Dolphins team under the lights on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field.