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Every year for my brother's football team there is a family weekend. The families get custom football jerseys with their members name and number on the back. It is a really cool weekend actually. There is a dinner on Friday night when they have funny stories and everyone gets to mix and mingle and the afterwards there is a bonfire. Then the next day there is a game against the players and their parents. This is always the funniest to watch. The parents get football t-shirts with their names on them and we watch as they play the kids. It is funny to watch for me especially because my dad and brother go against each other but they are basically the same person. They talk the same, look the same, think the same and act the same. It really is an entertaining day. Then afterwards we all go out for pizza. Then finally on Sunday we all go for the last game and then afterwards there is a ceremony for awards and other recognition. This year I got to go to it because it was over our fall break, but last year I didn't get to see it and I was actually pretty disappointed.

I think that it is rare that families get to do things like this together anymore. Everyone is always so busy with school or work or sports or friends that we hardly get to see each other (especially now that my sister and I are away at school). So this weekend really is a great time for us to relax and have fun together as a family. I used to think it was really fun to go to when I was little because my dad was the coach so we would watch other families and sometimes get to play along (we were really young then and my dad didn't want us getting hurt). But it is interesting now even more because my brother is playing and it is fun to see how my dad plays with him and how he did before he had a kid on the team. Now we all get involved and we all play and we get to have a great weekend together. And I also get a really cool custom jersey out of it. I tell people it's mine because the name on the back is our last name ha.