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Touch football touches off Thanksgiving festivities

Selden residents kick off their annual Thanksgiving Day

Photo credit: Handout | Selden residents kick off their annual Thanksgiving Day touch football game.

People have different ways of working up an appetite for Thanksgiving dinner. For at least two groups of Long Islanders, it involves playing football with relatives and friends instead of watching it on the tube.

The touch football games are longtime community traditions, dating back 30 years in Selden and 25 in Northport. Thursday's Selden game was dedicated to the memory of one of its organizers,...

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