The following things are prohibited from Thanksgiving touch football: spikes, eye black, sticky gloves, Jets jerseys, running with a martini glass and a lit cigar, Norv Turner.

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The day I interviewed Jennifer and Jean, the company was running a Groupon promotion, selling 8, 000 pairs of gloves in hours.

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Mr Griffiths was wearing gloves when he tried to clear the blockage in the potato sorting machine while it was running on 5 December, 2011.

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