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Published September 12, 2007

Issue #112
by Wayne Ellis, Sports America

Head and Should Pads Above the Rest
Why the NFL Enjoys the Ultimate Winner’s Edge

After slogging through another brutally hot, humid, baseball-only summer here in DC, we finally reached the end of the annual sports draught…

Football season kicked off this past weekend for real. Sure, for some of us, football actually started the week before, with many colleges getting things underway.

(Apparently, there was a little scheduling confusion in Michigan, where a game was scheduled but the Wolverines failed to show.)

But for a huge chunk of the sports-viewing population, football season didn’t really get going until the Colts and the Saints kicked off on September 6th, with the rest of the league following suit on the 9th and 10th.

And now, through the glorious bounty of ABC, ESPN, CBS, FOX and the NFL Network, for the next 16 weeks, we have the opportunity to get NFL games on four different days or nights of the week: Sunday, Monday, Thursday and, Saturday (at the end of the college season).

Simply put: the National Football League does it right. If an entire league can possess a winner’s edge over the competition, the NFL does. Here’s why.

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National Selection Tour
The Aflac National Selection Tour is a multi-city tour that travels to the hometowns of the Aflac All-Americans to announce their official selection to the team. At each tour stop an Aflac representative presents the players with an official game jersey and a commemorative Mizuno bat. Aflac concluded the third year of the Tour in 2006, and it again was an incredibly successful initiative that helped generate awareness for the game and honor the nation’s top prep baseball players. Below are some photos from the San Diego tour stop. To see more stops click here.
“Honorary Chairman Ozzie Smith and San Diego Padres' pitcher Kevin Cameron present Isaac Galloway with his 2007 Aflac National Selection Tour Jersey during the Kick-Off Announcement and Press Conference at PETCO Park (San Diego, CA).”
Aflac's Andy Grethel & Tim Turner present a check in honor of the San Diego Padres to Sue Botos, Director of The Cindy Matters Fund; joined by Aflac All-Americans Clark Murphy, Isaac Galloway & Aaron Hicks, San Diego Padres' 2nd Baseman Marcus Giles & Honorary Chairman Ozzie Smith.

 

 
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