Written Option Wrote:It’s Halloween season! What’s your player up to? How do they celebrate the holiday season? Does your team have any special traditions for the occasion, or do you stay at home alone watching scary movies in the dark? Try not to fluff it up too much.
So long as Halloween doesn't coincide with team activities like playing games or practices or anything, I like to always make some time to go to a charity fund raiser/costume party. I've always had fun dressing up since I was a kid and being able to take that fun and use it for the benefit of raising funds for charities that I and my teammates believe in is great. Depending on the schedule (and the kind of fund raiser), I try to also either go trick or treating with some of the kids in the community or invite them to the fund raiser to actually be there with me and some of my teammates. It's always hilarious to me to see some of these kids get a huge kick out of me and the other lineman being big - one year I was in a pretty unexciting costume, kinda a generic pirate, and this one kid saw me and went, "Wow, you're so big! Why didn't you dress up as an elephant?" That one got a chuckle out of me for sure. But overall, I think that's a great thing that the team helps me out with to be a part of the community here in Austin and to really help some good causes.
Because of the team activities, I don't really tend to be at home and so I don't do much for the neighborhood or anything. Hopefully I don't have a bad reputation for not giving out candy - I'm not home, so can't do much right?
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