For a lot of families, one of the rituals of Thanksgiving is playing a little backyard football. That may be why football injuries at the emergency room spike on Thanksgiving every year. FiveThirtyEight reporter Ben Casselman dug into the numbers.

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Source:: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/24/503279166/emergency-rooms-experience-spike-in-football-injuries-on-thanksgiving?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=sports