New Year's day

New year's day falls on the 1st day of January to mark the beginning of the new year.Unlike Christmas day,which is lightly celebrated overseas,the beginning of the new year is marked by a huge celebration.The build-up begins with fireworks preparation taking place at just about everywhere that you look.Kids and teenagers buy fireworks,while states and cities plan their own fireworks celebration on a grand scale.
Times Square in New York is known to have the best New Year's eve celebration.A ball is dropped from the sky with a big timer on it counting down to past midnight which would mark the beginning of the new year.There is a firework celebration going on downtown.Just down I-95,in the Baltimore Inner harbor there is a lot of fireworks going on also.It is great to be in these places,especially New York Times square,but if you can not make it there,do not worry, one of the national network stations will carry the event live for you.At New Year's eve,you can always find a party going on.Just call up one of your friends and you would be directed to one.Booze is in abundance,Heineken,Guinness,Michelob beer,Budwseiser,you name and it is available.The thing I loved most about living in the DC metro area is that,people work very hard and they also party very hard.Choose any of the parties going on and you will be guaranteed a good time.While you drink and chat with friends and family members,the TV set will be on and as the clock counts down to midnight,everybody rushes to the set in order not to miss the beginning to the new year.
New year's day itself is full of college football games.College football's regular season ends around the last week of November each year.Since there is no playoffs in the college football game,the teams with the best regular season records are matched in various bowl games around the nation to determine who becomes college football's national champion.This was before the Bowl Championship Series was introduced in 1998.Throughout the 80's and 90's teams played in different bowls games, then the coaches and football writers get to decide who the national champion was.
There has thus been co-champions in the past,Alabama and Miami in 1978,Colorado and Georgia in 1990,Miami(Fla)and Washington University in 1991 and Michigan and Nebraska in 1997.There is a coaches poll and another poll by UPI(this is the poll by an association of sport writers.
In the 80's one of the bowls that determined the eventual college champions was played on New year's day.Now the championship games could be slated anywhere from the first week of the new year through about the 9 day of the month of January, to avoid a schedule clash with national football league.