In article >,
The Ranger > wrote:

> Thirty-three years ago, our 1st Annual Turkey Bowl was played on
> Thanksgiving Day. There were fifteen ten-years-olds, full of
> vim-and-vigor, and we all wanted to mimic our favorite players
> (Bradshaw, Jergensson, Kilmer, Harris, Ham, Balitnokoff, Branch)...
>
> During most of those thirty-three years, we kept The Game alive --
> rain or shine, sleet or frost, heat or cold -- because weather just
> wasn't an excuse.

O God, not you, too. WhatsHisName plays every Sunday morning and they
also play on Thanksgiving. "I promise I'll be home by noon." He
wasn't. What's interesting is that several had made the same promise,
he said, but they all decided to stay for whatever called them. Never
mind family obligations. "I have to play football. I just have to,"
SFB, IMO.
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