If you didn?t stay until the final 19 seconds of the game, you missed Lynn Classical?s Devin Crayton barreling into the end zone for the go-ahead touchdown and two-point conversion for the Ram?s 22-14 win over Lynn English at Manning Field on Thanksgiving Day.?It was a little scary right up until the end,” said Gerry LeBrasseur. “But I?m glad we pulled it out at the end. Now, it?ll be a good Thanksgiving.”The win improved Classical?s record to 4-7, while English finished the season at 3-8.It was the 101st Thanksgiving Day game between the two schools, one of the oldest high school rivalries in the state. Only Malden-Medford with 127, Beverly-Salem (116), Winchester-Woburn (110), and Marblehead-Swampscott (106) have longer Thanksgiving Day rivalries.Classical holds the advantage over English, 54-38-9, in a rivalry that has been played since 1911 (the game was not played in 1913 or 1914, and the two schools combined in 1961 as the Lynn Lions).But it?s not always about the final score for those at the game, who showed up this year despite the temperature that hovered just above freezing, the gray sky and bracing wind, and the several inches of snow and sleet and freezing rain dumped on the area the day before.LeBrasseur graduated from Classical in 1953. There?s no place else he would have been on this Thanksgiving morning.?Oh, I can?t miss a game,” he said. “I have a streak of 71 straight Thanksgiving Day games as a player, as a coach and as a fan. I?m 79 and I?ve gone to 71 straight games.”LeBrasseur was at the game with his son Marc, who graduated in 1988. Both played football for Classical. The elder LeBrasseur likes to sit as close to the 50-yard line as he can. On the Classical side, of course.He planned to meet up with a friend – a former teammate – at halftime for coffee. Somehow, a former Ram was sitting on the English side of the field.?Well, that?s where his kids went to school,” LeBrasseur said. “So, he sits with them, and then we?ll meet up.And, like he reminds to remind me, ?Don?t forget: there?s not too many of us around anymore.?”Which is what makes these games and these get-togethers special.?Oh, absolutely,” LeBrasseur said. “Because when you?re young and playing, you?re at that phase in your life when there?s nothing else to think about except (playing football). Now you can think about a whole lot of things and you think about the days you played, all the different games, the crowds, your friends. It was just special, and as an older person it?s really special.”Ed Turmenne, 71, graduated from English in 1959.?I go with a couple of friends of mine who graduated from English,” he said. “We hang out for a while, and you always see so many people, who talk about this play or that play, but not just football. We talk about everything else.”Turmenne played baseball and basketball at English. He didn?t play football while he was in school. But he has become a regular at the Bulldogs? games over the years.?Well, I missed a few Thanksgiving Day games when the kids were young,” he said. “But over the last 10 years, I?ve made all of them. But even when I couldn?t get there I?d listen on the radio.?The game is always exciting because no matter what the records are, emotions on both sides of the ball are always so high that you almost always see a pretty good game. Like last year, if you didn?t stay for the whole game, you missed the best part.”But now, it?s about the camaraderie as much as the rivalry.?(My friends and I) follow them on the road, too,” Turmenne. “I don?t get to every game but a lot of the games. And I got with friends, too, so that makes it nice.”