For years at Thanksgiving I have been seeing that picture with the fat kid and the turkey. What kind of ball is that supposed to be and is that supposed to be a Rugby shirt he has on?

You're close with the rugby shirt. It's a circa 1900 postcard showing a boy with a football and a turkey, celebrating America's Thanksgiving football tradition.

True + for a Brit that Rugby ball IS a football as well as to all Europeans,but not to we Americans.

I've seen some funny videos of turkeys chasing police and other strange people .It's their nature !