Thirty years ago, Jim Todd showed up at Northgate Park with less than a dozen people for a pickup flag football game the day before Thanksgiving. He never thought that it would grow into a tradition that brings out as many as 500 people every year and draws people from as far away as the Bay Area for a morning of fun, fellowship, and football. On Thursday while most people were prepping their Thanksgiving turkeys, Todd and a crew of more than 100 volunteers were busy making sure that everything for the 30th annual Turkey Bowl – a flag football game at Woodward Park that has morphed into an annual Manteca staple – was in order to ensure that the hundreds of games being played would go off without a hitch.