Are you ready for some FOOTBALL!!!??
Well surprise! American Football is available for ages 7-Adult, and open to all nationalities. It is pretty amazing to see Emirates, Americans, British, Australian, South Americans, and so many other nationalities cheering and running down the sidelines in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)!
All three of our boys decided that they wanted to play football. We greatly missed our Friday Night Lights! So this was the next best thing available…. Games are not on Friday nights but they are under the brightest light of them all….the SUN! The season, thankfully, is during the cooler time of the year here. October through March, the temperature and weather is AWESOME! Sunny and clear….nice breeze…. with temperatures in the 70's.
The concept of American football is still in the beginning stages in the UAE. Just three years ago, the only football talked about here was soccer…. Now multiple nationalities are on the same field playing together an American past-time! Helmets are clashing, sweat is flying, and cheers are echoing across the field! Just recently the EAFL (Emirates American Football League) was featured by CNN in a report aired on the same day as the SuperBowl about American Football and the UAE. Clay, Joshua, Clint, and I can be seen a few times throughout the report. If you didn't catch it on my Facebook feed (or maybe we aren't Facebook friends), this is the link to the video and the story…. http://wwlp.com/2015/02/01/american-football-touches-down-in-the-uae/
We have had great coaches, great teammates and great parents to share the American Football experience with. I even ordered shirts for the moms through my personal t-shirt guru lady, Becky Sparks, all the way back in East Texas! She did an awesome job, as always!
Well surprise! American Football is available for ages 7-Adult, and open to all nationalities. It is pretty amazing to see Emirates, Americans, British, Australian, South Americans, and so many other nationalities cheering and running down the sidelines in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)!
All three of our boys decided that they wanted to play football. We greatly missed our Friday Night Lights! So this was the next best thing available…. Games are not on Friday nights but they are under the brightest light of them all….the SUN! The season, thankfully, is during the cooler time of the year here. October through March, the temperature and weather is AWESOME! Sunny and clear….nice breeze…. with temperatures in the 70's. The concept of American football is still in the beginning stages in the UAE. Just three years ago, the only football talked about here was soccer…. Now multiple nationalities are on the same field playing together an American past-time! Helmets are clashing, sweat is flying, and cheers are echoing across the field! Just recently the EAFL (Emirates American Football League) was featured by CNN in a report aired on the same day as the SuperBowl about American Football and the UAE. Clay, Joshua, Clint, and I can be seen a few times throughout the report. If you didn't catch it on my Facebook feed (or maybe we aren't Facebook friends), this is the link to the video and the story…. http://wwlp.com/2015/02/01/american-football-touches-down-in-the-uae/We have had great coaches, great teammates and great parents to share the American Football experience with. I even ordered shirts for the moms through my personal t-shirt guru lady, Becky Sparks, all the way back in East Texas! She did an awesome job, as always!
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