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Challenge of the Week CII
Opposites Attract. Choose two opposites, like love & hate, kindness & cruelty, or angels & demons. Your story or writing should include both. Perhaps there are two characters, one good, the other evil. Or perhaps it's a tale of love souring into hatred. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
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Iron Bowl

There are 365 days of the year. On one of those specific days is a football game. A football game intensely played by both sides, a game with vicarious and fanatic fans, who refuse to talk to neighbors, cousins, and even family members who cheer opposite of their team. This particular football game is between the University of Alabama and Auburn. A game is so tough it has been dubbed the “Iron Bowl.” This rivalry is fierce and intense. Despite how much each side wants to, wish’s to, and desires to win. This rivalry wouldn’t matter without each other and its fans.

Although they are opposites, it is obvious they are connected. Each side talk’s with each other during lunch breaks about statistics, the strength of the team, the new recruits, and assistant coaches obtained. They even discuss how much money has been spent on their team's stadium, their head coach, training facility, and uniform contracts.

Economically, t-shirt designing, the selling creative collectables and memorabilia, and more has provided supplemental income for countless fans. Books have been written, movies, and even entire families save all year just to tailgate at the stadium. With each team's zeal for perfection they perform a spring time game to ensure they are on the right path prior to football season. During this game each team’s defense and offense play each other. Even though the teams are basically just practicing, the fan base comes out and actually fills their team's stadium.

But without the loyal fan base, without the rivalry, where would the money for a new stadium come from? Would recruits from various high-schools across the nation even want to go to school in Alabama? Would families actually make supplemental income by selling merchandise? Would fan's save all year just to go to the game? Despite the bitterness toward each team, the team's need each other, and the fans need each other. If opposites didn’t have each other, then this one specific day out of 365 would just be like any other day and like other football game.

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