Thanksgiving Dinner
Appalachian State players and staff typically spend Thanksgiving together, in the midst of preparing for a first-round playoff game.
This year is no different. The Mountaineers are in the playoffs for the 17th time.
“It’s a great time for us,” Coach Jerry Moore said. “Fortunately here we’ve done it from the get-go, all the way back to 1989. We have a nice Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving night and the players’ parents that are within travel distance – and some of them come from a good ways and stay Thursday night and Friday night if we’re playing at home. Even when we played at Boise in 1994, parents came here for the Thursday night dinner and we went on to Boise on Friday.
“It’s been a neat deal. We used to bring in speakers – David Jeremiah has spoke, and Franklin Graham speaks – but now of late we’ve used our own players. It’s really been a special night, a special dinner.”