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Hey, it's your Thanksgiving too.

You know, instead of watching football, you could help.

We know.

Rachel, you wanna put the marshmallows in concentric circles.

No, you want to put them in concentric circles.

I want to do this.

Every year.

To the 10, to the 5. Touchdown, Giants!

You know, for once, I am gonna try to watch one of these things.

Halftime.

Who wants to, uh, throw the ball around? Get a little 3-on-3 going?

- Oh, that would be so much fun! - Can I play too?

I've never played football, ever.

Great! You can cover Chandler.

I don't... I don't really want to play.

You never do anything since you and Janice broke up.

Not true.

I wanted to wear my bathrobe and eat peanut clusters all day.

And start drinking in the morning. Don't say I don't have goals!

You have to start getting over her, all right?

If you play, maybe it'll take your mind off Janice.

If you don't, everyone will be mad at you because the teams won't be even.

All right, I'll play.

- Yay! - Yay! Let's do it! Ross?

- What? Wanna play football?

Um...

Monica and I aren't supposed to play football.

Says who? Your mom? Ha-ha-ha.

Yes.

Ahem. Every Thanksgiving, um, we used to have a touch football game...

...called The Geller Bowl.

No, no, no. You say that proudly!

Anyway, Ross and I were always captains, and, um...

It got kind of competitive. And one year, Geller Bowl VI...

...I accidentally broke Ross' nose.

It was so not an accident.

She saw I was about to tag her, so she threw...

...her big fat grandma-arm elbow in my face...

...and just kept running.

To score the winning touchdown, by the way.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Heh.

Uh, you did not win the game. The touchdown didn't count...

...because of the spectacularly illegal, and savage, nose-breaking.

I won the game.

Yeah? Then how come you didn't get the Geller Cup?

Ahem, there was a Geller Cup?

Yes, the trophy you got if you won the game.

But Dad said nobody won, and he was sick of our fighting.

So he took the trophy...

...threw it in the lake.

And was the curse lifted?

Anyway...

...Mom said we weren't allowed to play football again.

You know what? I think we should play a game.

I mean, come on. It's been 12 years.

Can I see you for a second?

Wuss!

All right, we're gonna play.

Wait. How we gonna get there? My mom won't let me cross the street.

Here you go.

All right.

- Let's bring it in. Wait.

Honey, throw it to me!

- Here you go. - Aah!

That almost hit me in the face!

We have to pick captains.

And then "Tennilles."

So how do we decide that?

- Why don't we just bunny up? What?

- Bunny! - Bunny!

Looks like Ross and I are captains.

Okay, so, um, I bunnied first, so I get to pick first. Joey.

- Thank you. - Monica.

I'm your best friend.

Sweetie, don't worry, you'll get picked.

Chandler.

- Ross? - Phoebe.

Sweetie, now I pick you.

You don't pick me. You're stuck with me!

Okay. All right. So let's see.

Let's play from the, uh, trash can to the light post, right?

Two-hand touch. We'll kick off.

People, listen. I've got 28 minutes...

...before I have to baste again.

Wow, just like in the pros.

- Okay, huddle up! Whoo! - Woo-hoo.

- Huddle up over here! Wait for me! Wait for me!

Oh, cool! My first huddle.

- Okay. - Ha, ha. Okay.

So what do you guys really think of Chandler?

- You know what you're doing, right? - Yeah.

Okay. Joey will catch it. We'll block.

What's "block"?

- I thought you knew what you were doing. - I thought you meant in life!

Break!

The ball is Janice. The ball is Janice.

Ow! Son of a...! Ow!

- Come on! - I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

You know what? We're just gonna throw it.

I got it!

Go, go, go!

Score! Seven to nothing!

Honey, you okay?

Come on, let's go.

Whoo. Losers walk.

Yeah? Losers talk.

No, no, actually, losers rhyme.

Forty-three...

...74...

- You wanna go shotgun? - Yeah.

Hike.

One Mississippi... Over here! Over here! Unh.

Ha! I almost caught that one!

Great. Now the score's seven to almost seven.

Okay, on this play, I want you to do a down-and-out to the right, okay?

- Break! - Wait. What am I gonna do?

You?

You go long.

How long?

Until we start to look very small.

- Okay. Break! - Break!

Set, hike! One Mississippi...

Switch! Switch! Switch!

No, no, no, no!

Huhh...

Hey. Thanks for stopping our ball.

You are playing American football?

Yeah.

Wow, you're, like, from a whole other country!

- I'm Dutch. - Hi, I'm Joey.

I am Margha.

- Sorry, Dutch, I didn't get that last little bit. - Ha-ha-ha.

You wanna play football or...? Hi, I'm Chandler.

Hello, Chandler.

Her name is Dutch and also "Margham."

- Margha. - Margha.

Margha.

Mahan.

Come on, guys! Let's go! Second down!

- Uh, hello? It's third down. - No, it's not. It's second.

- Wow. - "Wow" what?

It just amazes me that you're still pulling stuff like this. Heh.

- Pulling what? It's second down. - Okay, it's second down.

Take all the second downs you need.

- I heard that. - Well, I said it loud.

It is okay if I stay and watch?

- Just sit right there. - Yeah, why don't you stick around?

- That went well. - I think so.

I was thinking about, uh, asking her for her number.

Thanks, man, but it makes a stronger statement if I ask for it myself.

I was thinking about for me, as part of that getting-over-Janice thing.

Oh, yeah. That.

If it means that much, I'll let you have her.

Thanks.

Wh...? "Let me have her"?

You mean if you didn't, I wouldn't have a shot?

I don't like to say it out loud...

...but yeah!

We all have our strengths. You're better with numbers and stuff.

Math? You're giving me math?

All right, you know what? Forget about it.

You go for the girl. We'll see who gets her.

I want you to run a post-pattern to the left. And, sweetie...

Yeah, I know. Go long.

All I'm doing is running back and forth from the huddle.

Well, uh, you wanna just stay out there?

- Can I see that for a second? - Yeah.

- Okay. - Okay, let's go.

I got Chandler - Hike!

One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi.

Fumble!

What's the matter with you? This is my favorite jersey.

Well, now you have two.

Hey, I am good at math!

That's it. I was still gonna let you have her.

But now, prepare to feel bad about yourself.

I've been preparing for that my entire life!

Or something about you that's mean!

Come on, guys. Let's go.

Tie score. We're running out of time.

Forty-two, 38, hike!

I got it! Ooh! Ugh!

Broken boobs! Ow.

Pheebs, run! Run, Phoebe! Run!

- God! Touchdown! Touchdown! Yes! Touchdown! Hey, oh!

No, no, no.

Uh, the buzzer buzzed. It doesn't count.

- After the snap. - Before the snap.

- After. - Before.

- Does it really matter? Yes!

But I made a touchdown. It was my first touchdown.

Pheebs, that's great. Doesn't count.

- Does so count. - Cheater, cheater, compulsive eater.

Oh, my God!