Family Background

My family history goes pretty far back.  My great grandfather Marcus Christopher played for the Rochester Jeffersons, a sandlot football team back in 1917 who was actually owned by a guy named Leo Lyons, one of the first fathers to create the nfl.  In about the early 1930's, my great grandfather had changed his last name to Kitt because the last name Christopher is the English name of Kitt and he was the last Christopher in the family tree to had been alive at that time, losing all his brothers, sisters, mom and dad, as well as close relatives to old age and disease.  Starting the new last name of Kitt, he married a woman and gave birth to my grandpa as well as 7 other siblings to her.  Their family had started a tradition of playing a game of football every thanksgiving with the local neighbors.  Ever since then, even though we have many cousins and siblings to play a football game with, we still go out and ask the neighbors to play.  My grandfather is now passed away dying at the age of 98.