| Maybe you started playing football when you | | | | opportunity to get back in the game and |
| were 8 years old and never quite lost your | | | | recapture the energy and excitement of their |
| love of the game. Perhaps you even went on to | | | | playing years. |
| play college ball. Whatever level you played, | | | | |
| it's a good bet that your passion for the | | | | While some alumni organizations currently |
| game didn't stop when the last whistle blew | | | | exist, AFA's organizers say there is still a |
| and the last play ended. | | | | great need for an alumni community that will |
| | | | allow interaction among football players and |
| So how would you like to rub elbows with NFL | | | | coaches on both a personal and professional |
| Hall of Fame inductee Sam Huff, who played | | | | level. |
| for the New York Giants when they won the | | | | |
| championship in 1956? Or, if you're drawn | | | | Recent surveys conducted by AFA reveal that |
| more to the art of coaching, how would you | | | | 70 percent of former football players would |
| like to talk shop with Barry Switzer, head | | | | be interested in joining an alumni |
| coach of the Dallas Cowboys when they won the | | | | association with high school and college |
| Super Bowl in 1995, or Willie Wood, the first | | | | players. Seventy-nine percent are interested |
| black head coach in professional football? | | | | in reunions with former teammates and 55 |
| | | | percent said they'd be interested in |
| You can be a part of it all -whether you're | | | | purchasing their old school football jerseys, |
| still in the game or watching from the | | | | especially if their names were included. |
| sidelines -by becoming a member of American | | | | |
| Football Alumni, an organization of current | | | | AFA has numerous member benefits, including |
| and former football players, coaches and | | | | special pricing for Football Fest 2006 and |
| others who actively support the sport. Its | | | | other AFA conferences and conventions, |
| advisory board of directors includes some of | | | | discounts on AFA merchandise and voting in |
| football's most storied players and coaches. | | | | local and national alumni polls. |
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| AFA was created as a social and networking | | | | The group plans on sponsoring annual |
| organization to give its members the | | | | conventions beginning in Las Vegas in 2006. |