Football

             There is only one thing that entertains me when the fall season comes around. Any gridiron enthusiast knows exactly what I am referring too. I love everything about professional football. From the great end zone catches to the bone crunching hits. When I sit down for the twelve o'clock pre-game you may not see me again until supper time. I love watching all professional sports, but I believe in the last ten years football has overcome major league baseball as "America's Pastime."
             Growing up ten miles outside of Philadelphia you can probably already take a pretty good guess on which my favorite team is. I've been an avid eagles fan my entire life. I can vividly remember the first time I visited Veteran's stadium. It was a cold, blustery December day. Luckily my father had received press box tickets from his boss at work. To make a long story short the Eagles ended up losing that day by three points to the New York Giants-but I was hooked.
             A couple years ago I started working at a restaurant called Wings to Go. The guy who runs this place has a lot of good ties with the Eagles organization. So one day he asked me if I would like to hand out eagles towels to the fans entering the stadium. For ten bucks an hour it seemed like an alright gig. What he had failed to tell me was that after the game started we could go out on the field and watch the game from the sidelines.
             Every time I get to do this it gets better and better. It's definitely one of the single best experiences of my entire life. First I get to stand at the player's entrance and greet them all when they come into the building. Then I get to walk out on the field through the locker room entrance. Thousands of people screaming so intensely you can't hear yourself think as you're walking on the turf of the field. Since I started doing this a couple years back I've developed a whole new resp...

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