Saw this tweet from Tony Barnhart.

@MrCFB First Thanksgiving in my lifetime that Furman Bisher has not been here to do traditional column. This from AJC today.

Furman, who died in March, wrote a Thanksgiving Day column for 57 years. In his honor, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran his first Thanksgiving Day column from 1955. He was a true treasure, and is deeply missed by the sportswriting fraternity.

From Furman:

I’m  thankful for the right to play the game you want to play and back the  team you want to back, though it isn’t necessarily set forth as such in  the constitution.

I’m thankful for a profession that gave us a Grantland Rice and the philosophy that came with him.

I’m thankful for the right to call an umpire a blind bum.

I’m thankful for drivers who dim their lights on the highway without waiting for you to dim yours.

I’m   thankful for guys who hit home runs in the last of the ninth inning  with the bases loaded, especially if they’re on our side.

I’m  thankful for “September Song,” as recorded by Walter Huston. In tones  hoary and uneven, but with a feeling that only he could give it.

And there’s more, much more. Thanks, Furman.