One sports memory that I have from Thanksgiving is the annual "Turkey Bowl" that is held in my neighborhood every year on Thanksgiving morning. Every year the teenagers play the adults in a flag football game and whoever wins gets bragging rights for the entire year and a trophy which is housed in the clubhouse. The first year that I played in this game stands out in my mind. I was thirteen years old, and had many friends around the same age as myself who were also going to play in the game with me. My friends and I were excited and thought that we would easily defeat the "old men." My friends and I arrived at the field early on Thanksgiving morning to practice plays and to warm up, we were taking this game seriously, it was out Super Bowl.
The game ended up being a dog fight, coming down to the last play, and it was also extremely violent for a flag football game. The game was close, my team would score, and then the adults would score, it went back and forth like this until the end of the game. I was playing wide receiver and had a few key receptions, which was even sweeter because my Dad was the one covering me. To my team's surprise the adults were pretty good, and they were taking this game more serious than us. On the final drive of the game, the adults had the ball and needed to score in order to win, but if we held them and did not let them score the teenagers would win. The adults drove down the field quickly, and everyone on my team quickly began to lose hope. But, on the final play, about five yards from their end zone, they ran a pass play I intercepted the ball. We won the game! It felt great to win the game for my team and to have bragging rights over the adults, especially my dad.
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