Everyone has their customs and traditions that are tied into the New Year’s celebration but probably 90% of those customs and traditions are centered around New Year’s Eve. The traditional New Year’s Day event has always been to recover from New Year’s Eve but there are a lot of things going on for New Year’s Day events that people can enjoy even while they are pounding aspirins and holding an ice pack to their head. Some of the New Year’s Day events are national and some are just family traditions that get passed around from family to family and people begin to do them every New Year’s Day. No matter how you celebrate your New Year’s Day events it is always a good idea to try and get the new year off to a good start.

What New Year’s Day events would be complete with the swapping of New Year’s Resolutions? Resolutions are those promises that you make to yourself that you swear you are going to stick to this year. They usually center around quitting a nasty habit like smoking, losing weight, or promising to be an all around better person. Of course January and February also happen to be the biggest months for new memberships at health clubs which is no coincidence. Health clubs have even gotten into the act by turning up the advertising heat on television and radio between Christmas and New Year’s. But this New Year's Day event does sometimes change when you get older. As you get more experienced in life you start to realize that even though losing weight would be good for you it is probably just not going to happen. So as you get older you start to make resolutions that you feel like you can stick to like resolving to stop spending so much money on your credit cards or some other attainable goal. It is the wisdom of age that makes people create more realistic New Year’s resolutions.

Some of the more popular New Year’s Day events are centered around football games and parades. The Tournament Of Roses parade is held as a New Year's Day event and it is a spectacular parade that is held just before they play the Rose Bowl college football game. Other college bowl games are played as New Year’s Day events and the list of new bowl games changes all the time. A college football fan could spend all day in front of the television watching college football and many of them do. Some college football fans even make it out to the games and they consider their New Year's Day event to be going to the stadium and cheering on their favorite team. Lately the National Football League has extended its schedule and now some regular season NFL games fall on New Year’s Day. The NFL always claims it is a coincidence that there happens to be regular season NFL games as New Year’s Day events but sometimes it looks a little suspicious. For instance, when the NFL just happens to schedule a couple of games on the last Saturday of the season and that Saturday just happens to be New Year’s Day and those games just happen to be between two of the top teams in the league then things do not look so innocent anymore. Some college bowl games complain that the NFL is taking attention away from the college game but everyone has a chance to get an audience on television if they are playing football as their New Year's Day event.