The Influence Of American Football

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There was one time when me and my sister left our house to play at the park with the neighborhood kids. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was best game we ever played. It was windy and raining. The ground was wet and muddy everybody got wet and covered in mud. My sister was playing the position of quarterback. We played from sun up to sun down. We came home tired and exhausted, but we had fun. When my aunt saw us she had nothing to say to me, but she reprimanded my sister. She told my sister that she should not play this kind of sports. She did not know much about American football so when we told her how the game was played and how physical it was she forbid my sister from playing with us again. My mother overheard what happen. She did

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