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As Football Season Comes To A Start

Get ready for another heart pounding season

Nida Javed Ali
Aug 22, 2016
Millennials of San Antonio
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As Football Season Comes To A Start
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"The 2016 NFL season, the 97th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL), is scheduled to begin on Thursday, September 8, 2016, with the annual kickoff game featuring the defending Super Bowl 50 champion Denver Broncos hosting the Carolina Panthers."

Football is the all American sport that everyone watches, even if they might not fully understand it. From age 1 to age 100, everyone can enjoy this nail biting and thrilling sport. I mean, what other sport has it’s own holiday?

Thanksgiving and football have always been associated with each other. Families join together, feast on some good food, watch those men play ball, feast again & repeat. It’s a sport that is part of the American culture; just like how soccer is for Brazil & Rugby for England. Of course there’s the all American baseball and basketball, but those rivalries are no match for football rivalries. Sure you’d like to watch a Yankees vs. Red Sox game while eating a hot dog & cracker jacks, but you have to admit, that’s no match for a Super bowl game between the Bears vs. Packers.

What’s not to like?

You hit the guy on the other team as hard as you can, grab the ball, guard it & run! Each play is it own mini tussle and has its own story. Football gives us a sense of solidarity in our community. It brings us together because it is bonded by a universal hope, a common thread.

I wasn’t much of a football fanatic, but by going to a football crazy university, & watching some friends participate in fantasy football, I’ve come to love it. Movies like “The Blind Side” and shows like “Friday Night Lights” really depict the way football, as a sport, can genuinely change a young man’s life, mostly for the better.

Football is the ultimate pass time that unites people who just want to have great time. We all bust out the unhealthy junk food and pass it around the couch till it’s all gone. Football season doesn’t get any better than this. All the excitement builds up to high school football on Friday nights, colleges on Saturday and NFL Sundays and Mondays.

Football is the impelling, exhilarating, edge of your seat game of America which will always be cherished.

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