Many viewed this past MLK Day as another holiday.  Students experienced a three day weekend, and a good number of employers did not require their workers to come in.  And while some recuperated with much needed rest and others spent the day on a beachfront, roughly 300 people returned home from an annual event that would have made the late Dr. King, Jr. smile.

Launched five years ago, the Playmaker Bowl, hosted by the Tampa Bay Church, is a mid-January flag football tournament that unites various cities and churches together in a fun and fulfilling weekend.  Co-envisioned by Ronald Michel and Stevan Alvarez and brought to fruition by them and their executive board, the competition has grown from roughly five Floridian metropolitans in 2004 to include representatives from over ten cities throughout Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, and Delaware.