It's Football Season!

I know it's a week late, but I am so excited that football season is finally upon us! Last week sparked the beginning of the Ohio high school football season. Where better to live during football season than in Ohio? Our high school football programs and traditions are among the best in the country, and the same goes for our collegiate programs. We of course have Ohio State, but we also have national power Mount Union amongst us. We are so privileged to live in a state that shows so much passion for the sport.

Football season is special.
It's Autumn, the cloudy skies and colorful leaves laying on the moist ground.
It's the beginning of a new school year, with the whole school getting excited for the Friday night matchups.
It is the whole community gathering at the same place at the same time to root and to critique.
It's the Friday Night Lights.
It's running down the field during opening kickoff.
The turnovers. The highlight reels.
It's high school student-athletes giving their all for a sport they love alongside the friends they love.
It's the memories.
It's graduating the year before, coming back to watch the game, and it turns out to be aspontaneous reunion.
It's having all the Seniors over at someone's house after the game, waking up sore early the next morning and migrating to films, together.
It's grabbing the newspaper as soon as you wake Saturday morning to catch up on all that happened the night before.
It's JV football, a time to nurse your sores (physical or emotional) while you still get to watch the game of football.
It's Friday night. It's Saturday night. It's a whole weekend.
It's going from the local games on Friday night to the big games at big venues on Saturday night.
It's the marquee matchups.
It's the high hopes and the letdowns.
It's the rivalries.
It's The Ohio State University.
It's the Horse Shoe verse the Big House.
It's the scarlet and gray verse the maize and blue.
During this time of year, football is life!

May God continue to bless you.
-Marcum