“Cracking The First Beer Before 10 A.M.”– Dale Earnhardt Jr. Knows How To Have A Damn Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Hope you are having a wonderful turkey day so far. If you are doing Thanksgiving like how Dale Earnhardt Jr. is, it's hard to have a bad day. The legendary NASCAR driver sent out a post early this morning letting the world know how he was going about his holiday. The note shared on X (formerly Twitter) is one-third recipe, one-third promotional plug, and one-third hype message: "The bird is in the oven. Added herbs, onions, garlic inside. Slices of butter under the skin. A layer of Hellman's mayonnaise on the exterior, covered with some Kinder’s mild BBQ rub. Time for a 4 hour roast. Cracking the first beer before 10am. It’ll be a Budweiser." https://twitter.com/DaleJr/status/1862147489089937564 Only right that the driver of the "Budweiser 8" (it's back, in case you didn't know) car cracks open a Bud on Thanksgiving Day. An ice cold Budweiser hates to see Dale Jr. racing to the fridge before 10 A.M. on Turkey Day. With all the stress that the day can bring - with family coming in and politics almost always coming up (especially during this election year) - it's never a bad idea to have a couple preemptive brewskis. Social media was on board with Dale Jr. and left these comments below his Thanksgiving message:

Yeah buddy that’s what I’m talking about!!! pic.twitter.com/oMCbgxS7eL

— MobCandyJ (@jojoeylolo) November 28, 2024

This is the best update I have seen all morning

— kenneth amspaugh (@ohiokensc) November 28, 2024

pic.twitter.com/QLhakQHKfY

— Florida Dad 🇺🇸🐊 (@Corona3743) November 28, 2024

My wife when I say it’s gonna be. @budweiserusa Thanksgiving before 10am pic.twitter.com/a6XuCSFF5Z

— Patrick Gray (@PatrickLGray) November 28, 2024

4 hours of beer, perfect.

— fred casagni (@racemutt) November 28, 2024

Damn, Talk about a sponsored Thanksgiving dinner. Jr Made a half million bucks before noon and all he did was put the damn turkey in the oven.

— S Hoovz (@srhooven) November 28, 2024

Hey... we'd all plug our sponsors too if we were Dale Earnhardt Jr. There's just something about cracking open a beer and having a turkey roasting in the oven (or smoking, or frying, or whatever cooking method your prefer). If a Turkey is cooking and/or football is on, I consider that a GREEN LIGHT to bust out the beers. It just feels right. And I'd be remiss if I didn't include a response to Dale Jr's post that is now going viral. Someone saw his Thanksgiving message, fed all of the information to AI and asked the technology to create an image portraying Dale Earnhardt Jr's Turkey Day. It came up with this, and it's magnificent. https://twitter.com/landoncassill/status/1862164874224144639 Beautiful. No Notes. Chef's kiss. And peep that Budweiser BBQ sauce/can that AI accidentally invented. I don't want to give too much credit to artificial intelligence, but it might be onto something there...