You may be at home completing your common app, homework for your 3-5 AP’S, or just writing a couple of essays because they are due Monday but one thing is for certain, and that is one of the best fall activities in American history. The best thing since sliced white bread, George Washington crossed the Delaware, Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, Abraham Lincoln commenced the Gettysburg address, Lewis and Clark explored the United States, Nickelback stopped making music, the creation of Instagram, and that is good ole Sunday American Football.

Every Sunday families get together, to cheer on their favorite football team, eat numerous dips of every flavor, eat pizza, pretzels, chips, and potentially knock over drinks when Gronk spikes the ball in the end zone. Football is more than just a game, it’s a tradition shared by most American families that brings grandparents, cousins, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, and parents closer together. It’s a day where disputes, arguments, stress, work, and homework from earlier that week are forgotten about and settled in a game of backyard football. Where your uncle always complains about pass interference and your grandpa could never convert with a completion on a 3rd and long.

For my family Sunday football is a time where my mom, dad, and I get together to watch the Patriots. Although my mom doesn’t know what an interception is or what happens when the yellow flag is thrown we make the most of every Sunday with laughs and spikes everywhere when the Patriot’s score. The house is always engulfed in the fumes of chocolate chip cookies, pizza dip, and beef stew cooking in the crock pot. Sunday is a day where my family and I spend quality time eating food, laughing, maybe crying, and cheering for the Patriot’s. Every Sunday football game is a tradition that will be carried out when I’m moved out to college and even when I’m officially moved out. It’s a tradition that will never die and that I will pass on to my kids as well. Sunday is a day where families get together and celebrate what truly matters, the Patriots winning.