Papa Verlander's pants couldn't make it through the family's Thanksgiving dinner

A few signs your family enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner:

• Your mother won't stop saying how nice it is to have the family all in one place.
• Your uncle is too full of food to yell at the Cowboys game.
• Your father split his pants open.

How you know thanksgiving dinner was good... My dad split his pants!! #happythanksgiving #nofilter

A photo posted by Justin Verlander (@justinverlander) on Nov 11, 2014 at 4:12pm PST

Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander posted photographic evidence of that third sign Thursday evening following his own Thanksgiving dinner, and when you see the before shot, it's not exactly hard to see how this happened:

Happy thanksgiving everybody! Lots to be thankful for. #happythanksgiving

Justin Verlanderさん(@justinverlander)が投稿した写真 - 11月 11, 2014 at 3:31午後 PST

That's a denim-busting bird if we ever saw one. And at least we know Verlander wasn't making a pizza.

Don't worry about Father Verlander's pants, though. He seems to be taking it all in stride, and even has some lofty goals for the long weekend:

"@JustinVerlander: How you know thanksgiving dinner was good My dad split his pantshttp://instagram.com/p/v7D8LMMZGo/" #BreakTheInternet

- Richard Verlander (@Verlanderdad) November 28, 2014

You heard him: Break. The. Internet.