The Starosta Bowl

Each year for Thanksgiving, we have traveled to Falmouth, Massachusetts to be with my grandparents and cousins. Usually almost everyone (with one or two exceptions) is able to make it annually for the dinner and football game. Most families that do Thanksgiving football play by two-hand touch rules  naturally, but when the Starosta family started playing in 1993 (this year being the 25th anniversary), we decided to be a little extra. Shirts developed into full on jerseys, and there became a silver bowl with engraved names and dates in order to remember the "MVP" of the game each time. Although some years have been more popular in terms of attendance, there has always been enough for two teams to enjoy some friendly competition. The morning after Thanksgiving we always gather at my grandparents, and then walk down the road together to a field to play, and then come back and eat sandwiches from the same shop every year. It's a very basic tradition, but it brings the family together in the last couple hours that we're with each other, and has been one of my favorite parts of the Thanksgiving break for a long time.