Many people attend these Friday Night football games because they see it as a tradition. I was never quite able to understand this until after I graduated high school and had been attending the games every fall Friday night for four years as a part of the marching band. Now as a recent graduate of Cambria Heights, I have come to understand the meaning of these Friday night football games like everyone else does. These games are not just a time to come and see an entertaining football game or the marching band performance (although those are perfectly great reasons to go!), but it is a time to catch up with friends, both those who we see often and those who we do not see so much anymore. These Friday night games serve as a time where people …show more content…
At the Friday Night Football Games, you see several groups of people. First, there are the ones that I already discussed, which are the football fans and the band fans. Then, you have the group of moms who may or may not have kids on the team or in the band but are only interested in each other's company and getting to talk with each other. You also have the students. While some of them are there to watch the football game, you look around and see several students standing in groups not paying attention to the game, but instead eating popcorn, snapping selfies, and talking and laughing with each other. No matter what group you are a part of whenever you come to the football games and no matter what the reason is that you are at the game, it all comes down to one underlying reason, and that is because it is a tradition. A tradition that has been adopted many years before you began going to the games and will continue many years after you stop going with generations before and after you. No matter what time, the location, or the whether, pretty much the same people (give or take a few) will be at every game to carry on the tradition of these Friday night games and maintain a certain standard within the Cambria Heights