Thanksgiving Day is a hallowed tradition in this country, and time is a key piece of that equation. The same prayer prayed on the first Thanksgiving Day, in 1863, could be prayed over largely the same meal in 2018. Or, for instance, a certain prayer prayed back in 1962.
In 1962, the Dallas Cowboys were a young organization. They were not yet America's Team by then. In fact, they weren't even really Dallas's team yet, as the 2-year-old Cowboys shared the city with the AFL's Dallas Texans, who would not become the Kansas City Chiefs until the following year.
With the team's tradition of playing on Thanksgiving Day still years away, the club's 38-year-old head coach Tom Landry offered this simple message, as applicable in 1962 as it is in 2018.
"Thanksgiving Day to me is a time which I'm most grateful for all the abundance which is ours, something that I think that most of us so often take for granted. It's a time which we can spend with our families and reflect back on the past year for all the things we should be most grateful for," Landry says. "I think most of all it's a time in which we should give thanks to God, for through His love and His grace, all these things have been made possible."
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.