WU-TANG CLAN IS PLAYING THANKSGIVING HALFTIME AT 1 P.M. ON CBS... GOOD LUCK TO THE CENSOR

Wu-Tang Clan is headlining the Detroit Lions' Thanksgiving halftime show. The Lions host the Bears at Ford Field on November 26 in the 87th annual Thanksgiving Day Classic, kickoff 1 p.m. ET on CBS, which means a Staten Island rap collective gets a national broadcast slot at the exact hour your aunt is carving a bird. Eminem and Shady Records president Paul Rosenberg picked them. It's year two of their deal as executive producers of the show. Last year they went with Jack White plus a surprise Eminem cameo, a seven-and-a-half-minute set the Lions turned around into a mini-album called "Live from Ford Field" the next day. Split seven and a half minutes evenly across Wu-Tang and everybody's getting under a minute, so one of these men is coming out for a single bar and a wave. The booking lands in a loud year for the group. They're wrapping the farewell tour, "Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber," and they get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on November 14, twelve days before they have to perform between a punt and a Ford commercial. Michigan native Antonio Cipriano sings the anthem. The Bears, who actually lead Detroit 11-9 in Thanksgiving meetings, will spend the whole thing in the tunnel hearing it through concrete.

Why you should give a shit: Thanksgiving halftime used to be the window where you went and got more pie, and now it's a Rock Hall victory lap on free TV with a censor sweating through his shirt.