Feeding a Hungry Football Team is Like Feeding an Entire Army
In many towns, especially towns in areas that are big on football, there exists a die-hard tradition of the pre-game football dinner. These dinners are usually hosted by the parents of a player on the team, generally a player at the varsity level who is normally a senior. These pre-game football dinners, which are held the night before each gameday, are a way for the team to bond together and to make sure that everyone gets proper nutrition the night before a big game. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Approach your team's coach during the off-season and let them know you'd like to host a pre-game football dinner for the team. It's best to do this well in advance because there may be a lot of competition to host the team dinners.
2. Decide what you want to serve. Since you'll be serving a minimum of 30 or so people, with some football teams ranging up into the 70s, 80s or even 90s, pick something that you can afford and that won't be too terribly difficult to produce.
3. Plan large portion sizes. Remember, teenage boys can often eat two to three times as much in one meal what a grown man would eat in a day. Combine that with the fact that football players are exercising each day for three to five hours and you've got a recipe for some hungry teens. Make sure that you plan to have more food than you expect to require.
4. Set up the logistics of the pre-game dinner well in advance and think them out thoroughly. The easiest thing to do when you're hosting such a large-scale event is to forget something simple like seating, silverware, napkins or the chance of inclement weather. Such mistakes will only be worsened and exacerbated if you wait until the last minute to set the dinner up.
5. Host the dinner with a relaxed attitude. Remember, if you have 30 to 90 teenage boys running around in your house or backyard, there's a good chance that something may get broken, stained or generally dirty. This all comes with the territory. As long as things aren't getting out of hand, just relax. Since the coaches of the football team are present, the players should all remain respectful and relatively calm.
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