The Massapequa Boys

Read Corey Kilgannon's story: But on the field Saturday, the trappings of their current lives fell away, from the opening kickoff until the game was called when another group of Turkey Bowlers wanted the field.

"Twenty-one years we've been doing this, and we'll be doing it till we can't walk onto the field anymore," said Eric Dell, 38, who organizes the games.

Most of them spent their teenage years valiantly vying on playing fields for the Berner Bisons, but most could not make it around the Berner Junior High School track today without an oxygen tank. Still, there they were, some clad in their old, faded, frayed high school-issue uniforms, gutting it out as kids again. Bodies were softer and bones more brittle, but the old spirit and taunts and nicknames were trotted out for two halves of football.