GREEN BAY, Wis. — Jordan Love celebrated the Green Bay Packers’ victory on Thanksgiving by taking a bite out of a turkey leg and raising it in the air.

His feast was a long time coming.

Love led the Packers to a Thanksgiving Day triumph in Detroit last year but wasn’t given a turkey leg afterward, as is customary in these televised postgame interviews.

His teammates vowed to make sure Love got a turkey leg this time, and he earned it by throwing two touchdown passes to Jayden Reed in a 30-17 win over the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night.

“To be able to come in here, get the win, get the turkey leg after, it was very delicious,” said Love, who went 21 of 28 for 274 yards. “Just a little something to celebrate.”

Josh Jacobs brought a turkey platter into the locker room as Green Bay (9-3) commemorated a third straight victory.

The Packers, who have won seven of their last eight games, built a 27-3 lead and made a goal-line stand to thwart a comeback attempt.

Miami (5-7) continued its recent history of struggling in cold weather.

The kickoff temperature at Lambeau Field was 27 degrees (-2.7 Celsius) with 10 mph winds, light flurries and a wind chill of 18.

“I would say, from my standpoint and our team’s standpoint, we’re not going to use any of that as an excuse for why we didn’t get the start that we wanted,” said Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who was 37 of 46 for 365 yards with two touchdowns despite getting sacked five times.

The Dolphins have lost their past 12 regular-season or postseason games in which the temperature at kickoff has been below 40 degrees (4.4 Celsius).

The Dolphins’ most recent victory in a game with a kickoff temperature at 40 or lower was a 34-31 overtime triumph at Buffalo on Dec. 24, 2016.

Green Bay is playing three games in a 12-day stretch.

The Packers beat the San Francisco 49ers 38-10 on Sunday and will visit the NFC North-leading Detroit Lions next Thursday night.

“I thought we played well for it being a short week,” Packers safety Xavier McKinney said. “I thought we came out there and had the right mindset. And we started fast, and that was the key to today’s win.”

Love and Reed connected on touchdown completions of 3 and 12 yards, Jacobs scored from 1 yard out and Brandon McManus kicked two field goals as Green Bay led 27-3 midway through the third quarter.

Miami tried to rally.

Tagovailoa’s 14-yard pass to De’Von Achane – and a 2-point conversion pass to Jaylen Waddle – cut Green Bay’s lead to 27-11 with 2:43 left in third. After Miami stopped Jacobs for a 2-yard loss on third-and-1 to force a punt, the Dolphins drove again and had second-and-goal at the 1 early in the fourth quarter.

“We fought hard,” Dolphins defensive lineman Calais Campbell said. “We have no quit in us. I really genuinely believed we were going to give ourselves a chance to win at the end.”

Green Bay’s goal-line defense vanquished those hopes. After Rashan Gary stopped Achane on second down and Tagovailoa couldn’t connect with Jonnu Smith on third down, Quay Walker made a fourth-down sack with 9:33 remaining.

A 49-yard completion from Love to Jacobs then set up McManus’ 33-yard field goal with 5:02 left.

Miami completed the scoring on a deflected 12-yard touchdown pass from Tagovailoa to Tyreek Hill with 3:04 remaining.

Miami’s slow start enabled the Packers to take command.

After forcing a three-and-out on the opening possession, the Dolphins gave Green Bay a first-and-goal opportunity when Malik Washington muffed a punt and Robert Rochell recovered at the 9.

The turnover set up Love’s 3-yard touchdown pass to Reed on third-and-goal.

Green Bay reached the end zone again on its next series as Jacobs’ touchdown capped a 12-play, 76-yard drive that lasted nearly seven minutes.

The Dolphins had first-and-goal at the 9 in the second quarter but settled for Jason Sanders’ 33-yard field goal.

Green Bay then scored 10 points in the final 96 seconds of the half to make it 24-3.

On third-and-2 from the 12, Reed caught a pass around the line of scrimmage and used a downfield block from Dontayvion Wicks to reach the end zone.

After Tagovailoa overthrew Achane on fourth-and-5 from the Green Bay 38 with 22 seconds left, a couple of completions from Love to Tucker Kraft helped the Packers get into position for McManus’ 46-yard field goal as time expired.

From that point on, it was pretty much just a matter of making sure Love didn’t go hungry.

“That was the one thing that was the most important to me, was making sure Jordan got his leg,” Kraft said.

The Miami Dolphins will look to even their record at 6-6 when they face the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Thanksgiving night.

The Dolphins are on a three-game winning streak with victories against the Los Angeles Rams, Las Vegas Raiders and New England Patriots. The Packers are 8-3 and coming off a Week 12 rout of the San Francisco 49ers.

The Dolphins and Packers are meeting for the first time since Christmas Day 2022 when Green Bay left Miami with a 26-20 victory.

Here are the five biggest storylines for this year’s Week 13 matchup.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but the Dolphins haven’t had a lot of success in cold-weather games in recent years. While the conditions in this one won’t be anywhere near as brutal as those in Kansas City in January, it won’t exactly be South Florida weather either. The Dolphins will need to show at some point that conditions don’t matter to the way they operate on offense and defense and this would be a good place to start.

Of course, at the forefront of the weather factor will be quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, even though we’ve already addressed this narrative based solely on his record being a bit overblown. More importantly here is whether Tagovailoa can continue the ridiculously high level of efficiency he’s shown since coming back against a Packers defense infinitely better than what the Dolphins saw against the Raiders and Patriots.

This game will feature an interesting quarterback battle between 2020 first-round picks Tagovailoa and Jordan Love. The latter has had a bit of an up-and-down season, starting with a scary-looking ankle injury in the opener in Brazil. The biggest issue for Love this season has been turnovers, and the Dolphins would make their task of winning a lot easier if they can pick him off once or twice, and a couple of sacks wouldn’t hurt either.

A big key to the Green Bay is the running game, which is led by free agent acquisition Josh Jacobs. The Dolphins had a lot of success stuffing Jacobs last year at Hard Rock Stadium, but he was running then behind the Raiders offensive line and his quarterback was Aidan O’Connell, who the Dolphins didn’t have to worry about nearly as much as they do Jordan Love. Keeping Jacobs in check, at least to a certain degree, is a big key in this game.

We hate to keep harping on the special teams, but that’s just life, especially if we go back to that 2022 meeting at Hard Rock Stadium and remember that Keisean Nixon had a 93-yard kickoff return for Green Bay. He didn’t score on the return and the Dolphins held Green Bay to a field goal, but the point remains. And it won’t be as simple as having Jason Sanders kicking off deep into the end zone to prevent a long return because the ball simply doesn’t travel as well in the cold — and, again, it will be cold.

Just one month after Donald Trump’s re-election as US president, the 22nd edition of Art Basel Miami Beach could prove a microcosm of a politically divided country. “It is an incredibly pivotal moment and an interesting time to be having the fair,” says Bridget Finn, its new director. “I’m sure that artists and gallerists will approach it in unique ways.”

Exhibitor Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle, partner and co-owner of New York gallery Canada, sums up the widely different reactions within the art world. “Lots of artists are feeling downtrodden and are still trying to make sense of [Trump’s re-election], while collectors feel a bit grounded now, more protected in terms of their finances. So they are more open to spending, which should at least support the artists.”

While Floridians voted decisively for the Republican party, there will be plenty of art within the fair that goes against Trump’s politics. These include works that address climate change, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and feminism.

Meridians, the section of the fair for large-scale art, includes a work featured in Peru’s pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale: Roberto Huarcaya’s “Amazogramas” series (2014-24), including a three-metre-long photogram — a process that exposes paper to light without using a camera — highlighting the precarious environment of the rainforest (Rolf Art Gallery, $160,000).

I’ll be looking for Trump-related commentary — though please no images of him’

Elsewhere in this section, PPOW brings Portia Munson’s “Bound Angel” (2021), an installation of bound everyday objects displayed on a wedding dress to present restrictive ideals of femininity ($200,000). The work, “can be immediately understood as a powerful commentary on the rampant misogyny that has resurfaced in the US,” says gallery co-founder Wendy Olsoff.

Boyle describes Canada gallery’s mixed-artist booth in the fair’s main section as a “celebration of a multitude of diverse voices — artists who identify as cis-gender, non-binary, queer, of colour, or a wide combination of these listed identities.” They include Katherine Bradford, Xylor Jane and Joan Snyder.

Previously unseen sculptures and paintings by the late Indonesian artist I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, which confront the autonomy of the female body and female pleasure, will be on display in the Survey sector through Gajah Gallery (S$9,700–S$110,000; £5,731–£64,994). New York’s Kasmin gallery is showing a gestural charcoal by feminist artist Judith Bernstein (“Signature”, 1995–2007, $35,000). 

The good news for galleries is that interest in such works in high among the international and coastal collecting community. “I’ll be looking for Trump-related commentary — though please no images of him — more works that address things like what ‘Maga’ actually means, where are we going?” says New York collector Kim Manocherian.

Italian collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, who runs a private museum in Turin, says that “It isn’t an easy moment, all over the world, and I will absolutely make sure to find work [in Miami] that addresses the current political climate.”

As the US continues its political realignment, the art market has its own issues to address. Art Basel’s Finn, a former gallerist, is acutely aware that her fair comes at the end of a difficult year during which even New York — the most active and largest art trade hub — has experienced gallery closures and disappointing auction results. At the moment, “helping galleries to reach a larger audience is key,” she says. “I’ve tried to listen as much as I could to their feedback and to think about strategies to help them.”

One result is that Art Basel has rolled out the option of smaller booth sizes to its main sector exhibitors. This year’s fair has 34 new entrants among its total of 283, with 13 taking up the smaller booth option. Charles Moffett starts in the Nova section for new work brought by young galleries — where a 36 sq metre booth costs around $24,500. He brings a joint presentation by gallery artist Kim Dacres, who works with discarded rubber tyres (price range $7,000–$35,000), and Melissa Joseph, who uses felt ($10,000–$25,000), including a work they have made together. “They are good friends,” he says, “and we want their work to be in cohesive conversation.”

Ultimately, she says, whatever the political climate, “anything we can do to expedite people making sales is a priority”. Nerves might be jangling more than usual this year, but so far, so good at the leading US fair, says Nicholas Olney, president of Kasmin gallery. “The timing is good — it comes at the end of the year, when lots of collectors have clarity about their finances and just now the fundamentals of the economy are good. Whatever people feel about it, we have got past an election that had sucked up a lot of our headspace and we’ll have to see what the next four years bring. For now, it’s time to get to business.”

Art Basel Miami Beach, December 6 – 8, 2024