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SportsNation: Happy Festivus!

Thursday, December 23, 2004

We can trace the origins of the holiday of Festivus all the way back to ... well, roughly the mid-1990s. The creation of the warped minds behind Seinfeld, Festivus celebrates pretty much everything not normally associated with the traditional winter holidays. But a centerpiece of the tradition is the "Airing of Grievances," wherein celebrants ease their burdened souls by unloading on anything and everything that bothers them. Dan Shanoff celebrated in style in Thursday's Daily Quickie, offering ...

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