As his position coach Ken Norton Jr. recently told Sports Illustrated, far from being an afterthought, Matthews "wasn't even a thought!"
But how did it get to be a holiday or even thought about as a holiday or a day of acknowledgement?
There's even a school of thought that asserts that the government can't assert financial privilege if their amendments don't bust the Ministry of Justice's budget, and just move money around within it.
At one point, for a brief period, the CIA even thought that Iran already had a nuclear bomb.
Second, even if we thought a national sales tax was a good idea, this is a silly way to do it.
But Lallement takes this train of thought even a step further.
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Even the thought of a Spain exit would keep investor sentiment sour until the European Union came up with a plausible solution to the ongoing debt crises in the south.
And here it was not even a few weeks ago when we thought our only hope to address crazy loud commercials was a new law and now Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has agreed on a measure that'll solve it with out Congress.
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Some even thought it was a conspiracy to get tickets to a select group of attendees.
Why do bad ideas flourish in policy discourse, even though a few minutes of thought and research would show just how bad they are?
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Before the floods, it was even thought of as a back-stop to the producers in Japan that were damaged by the tsunami in March.
No matter what precautions taken and levels of due diligence applied, nobody can guarantee that things might not go wrong on technically challenging, environmentally difficult areas, drilling at extreme depths for unconventional plays that few thought even possible a couple of decades ago.
Well the fact is of course that a few decades ago they would have done that and not even thought about it and they would have laughed if a burglar had complained that somebody had bumped him for example.
They are not even a single species: there are thought to be about 360 different ones.
"Civilization" franchise creator Sid Meier said developers never even thought about someone taking a "Civ" game this far into the future.
Taylor also testified that he did not commit the atrocities in Sierra Leone of which he is accused, and said he even thought they were "a little strange" when he heard about them at the time.
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Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) went even further, calling any thought of a "plea bargain" unconstitutional.
Even the patient Nelson Mandela thought Inkatha a pain and found visits to KwaZulu-Natal disagreeable.
Even if, as Johnson thought, a child could have written Ossian, children were never meant to read it.
Some PC gamers are so infatuated with mouse and keyboard, even the very thought of playing on a controller is sacrilegious.
Before long, folks were using this to get from Point A to Point B without even giving thought to the brains behind the dotted lines and geofences.
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Indeed one might even be forgiven for thinking a truly radical thought: that Barack Obama, a president who, recall, fought a non-war-war in Libya without Congressional authorization, is vulnerable to criticism because his foreign policies have been too aggressive.
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On the BBC's Inside Politics over the weekend, Brussels-based analyst Nicholas Whyte thought that, even in a future more tightly controlled Euro zone, Dublin will still fight fiercely to retain its low corporation tax rate, although this may mean making budgetary sacrifices elsewhere.
When we visited new Five-Star winner Mandarin Oriental, Boston, for example, everyone from the housekeeper to the bellhop knew our name, and the room service attendant who delivered breakfast suggested we take a house umbrella on a rainy day before we even thought to do so ourselves.
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Many were laid down as packhorse routes by shepherds and traders during the Middle Ages, but a few are thought to be even older.
That means the permanent loss to output, from the crisis is that much higher, and the scope for what we would call a decent recovery is even smaller than we thought.
Guys, if you are deep into watching sports, meat and potatoes, and never having to bother yourself with a new or original thought for the rest of your life, don't even think of marrying a career woman.
During the height of the scandal the thought of just breaking even seemed like a distant dream.
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