Python script skip header row in excel file

I wrote a python script that will pull excel files from a folder and write them into a SQL table. I got the code to work, but only if I delete the first line of the excel file which contains the headers. I'm new to Python so this is probably something simple, but I looked at a lot of different techniques and couldn't figure out how to insert it into my code. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! I wrote a python script that will pull excel fi