Thanksgiving Tradition Means High School Football Playoffs

While the Thanksgiving tradition weekend may mean eating all day on Thanksgiving Day and planning your Black Friday shopping, it is also high school football playoffs time. High school football is a big community event and has grown in popularity in the past several years. The high school football playoffs are the must attend event for many high school football fans.

Early Friday morning, following Thanksgiving Day, cars and buses hit the roadways for the trek to Detroit, Michigan and the Ford Field to root for there favorite high school football team. Teams from all over the state converge here. Some teams travel a few miles while others have to travel hundreds to make it here. The energy and excitement is so electrifying nobody minds the trip to Detroit.

For the high school football teams this is the big event they have worked towards all season. This is the super bowl for high school football. For some schools this is their first time there and for others it is a repeat from previous years. But for many football players this is their first time on the big field at Ford Field.

The trip to Detroit will be filled with buses and cars waving banners and writings displaying their favorite team logos and team spirit. Stopping along the way, you will see team colors galore. People are all painted in some sort of way and hair is seen in shades unrecognizable. It is football frenzy at its peak.

Michigan high school sports are the third ranked in the nation for active participation from its fans. High school football is has the biggest following. We may have a hard time being loyal to the Detroit Lions, but not to our high school football teams. Whether it is your child's team or the high school in which you graduated from, there is a lot to root for.

It is great when you can go home as state champs. It is also an honor to be able to play in the high school football playoffs, no one team should go home felling defeated. One game does not make a team a winner or a loser. The effort of these high school football players is a whole season of hard work. Everyone who gets the opportunity to go to the Ford Field is a winner.