Watching Steve Harvey’s Reaction To Turkey-Gobbling Champion On ‘Family Feud’ Is A Thanksgiving Tradition

Ladies and gentlemen, let me officially welcome you to the holiday season. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, which unfairly tends to get overlooked (certainly by my wife) by the impending storm of Christmas shopping that begins less than 12 hours after we all sit down and say thank you for the blessings in our lives. Sure, it's not a season like Christmas is, but why would you want to brush past a day filled with an outstanding amount of food, plenty of drinks, and football from noon til night? It's anti-American! But I digress... Everyone has their own traditions for Thanksgiving. There's the meal staples like turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie, but some people toss in a ham or roast beef and sides can be as confusing as Jell-O and cottage cheese (a constant presence at all of my mom's-side family gatherings) and as unappetizing as eel (I love sushi but count me out on this "traditionalist" dish) and everything in between. Maybe you're a backyard football family, a paper plate family, a Fireball toast family, maybe you do something so off the wall that I can't even think of it, but odds are you've got something that you all do to denote the day as something more than a big dinner. I'm a huge tradition guy. Love doing the same exact thing in the same exact place every year, but I also like to toss in a bit of spice every now and again, which is why I've began rolling out a few traditions of my own, most of them revolving around videos that I thoroughly enjoy watching this time of year. We can go with Creed's iconic Thanksgiving Day performance or the "I got greens, beans, potatoes, tomatoes" lady, but I like going back to this deep-cut of sorts involving Family Feud host and all around hilarious dude Steve Harvey. In an episode from years back, a woman named Tami (who honestly looks a bit like Beth Dutton) was up to answer (I believe) what people should do if they don't feel good, but before she gave her best guess, she completely derailed the game by offering to show Steve her special hidden talent. Okay, she didn't exactly offer to show it... It was going to happen one way or another. "Well, before we do that, I have a special talent I want to share with you. Is that okay?" Steve barely eked out a "Well" before Tami burst out with her special talent, which happened to be making turkey sounds. Hunters have long paid good money for turkey calls that sound like the real thing but there's always been a select type of person that can mouth-call, and I don't exactly know if she'd ever field tested her abilities but she certainly wasn't lacking in the confidence department and bared it all to give the world this now iconic (if only in small circles) moment. The fact that she followed it up with a lackadaisical "I'm a turkey calling champion" is enough to send me rolling each and every year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfFgWlsve-w&t=32s How is this not the biggest video on the internet?! Sure, she forced it too happen but that's part of the magic! Maybe she was trying to be the first Hawk-Tua girl, maybe she wanted to get invited to this year's national championships, or maybe she's just a funny lady who wanted the world to know she can make turkey gobbles, but regardless, it's just fantastic. Plus you add in Steve Harvey's cringeworthy attempt? It's just too good. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there. I hope you enjoy all of your traditions and join me in rewatching this video every year from here on out.