Dice Marchioni: My Football Experience Of Football

In 2015, I played flag football. I had a really good team. We never lost a game. It was a streak of like 20. The people on my team were Ashton, Jackson, Cortland, me, and someone else i can’t remember. On the last play of the last game, I scored. We were at the far back Touchdown. It was a handoff to me. I ran so fast I thought I was a cheetah, when i scored, the crowed cheered. My dad was the loudest one there.

I began playing football when I was eight years old. From the moment, I first stepped on the field for practice I knew that I loved this game. I was a little

My philosophy for football is to be a fundamentalist. Fundamentals should be worked on every day, and should never be overlooked. Besides the individual fundamental techniques of the different positions, I believe the game holds fundamental truths.

Kennedy, Kostya. "Weighing The Cost." Sports Illustrated 125.8 (2016): 48. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

Earlier that year in my seventh grade class, my teacher challenged each of us to write a news article about a topic that interested us. The decision was easy. Football. There was nothing that I loved more in the world. And there

Being a scrawny exceedingly short fifth grader, I was surrounded by other fifth graders that seemed to tower over me like skyscrapers. It was a Scorching, sunny, beautiful Monday: but more specifically it was the first day of the football season. The nerves in my body started to take over and almost felt out of place because small skinny kids don't play football, but my love for football exceeded beyond my fear and allowed me to give it a shot.

It was February 3, 2008, one of the most anticipated days of the year in sports. I was 10 years old, and looking forward to the Super Bowl; the New England Patriots vs. the New York Giants. The game started out as usual, with some great snacks, comedic commercials, and big plays. Now watching the game made me start to miss playing football. It being February in Colorado, there was ice and snow outside, so I contemplated if I really wanted to go play football. I sat through the entire first half with a football in my hand, tossing it up and down. Once the halftime show came on, I no longer had the desire to stay and watch so I put on my jacket on and went outside.

My Second reason for loving football and just like the first is a personal reason as well. It was one of the few times I could actually spend time with my dad. I remember when me him a lot of my friends and family on his side of the family used to have this big family game with trophies and other prizes on Thanksgiving. We would all eat at about noon and then everyone would be outside. By everyone I meant everyone that stayed in my neighborhood man and women would go outside and head to the old football field at the old middle school that was around the block from our house. So you have like a hundred or more people at this school playing football men playing and women cheerleading. It would last all the way up until the about the four-o-clock

Swimming is the hardest sport there is. Something that I’m good at are swimming, pitching, softball, and football. I have been swimming since I was 4, because I took lessons at the YMCA. I am really good at pitching,because over summer I was supposed to be on a team so I constantly was outside pitching, one time when I was really good I pitched it at a tree, and it broke some bark off.

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I have participated in football since elementary school. My love for football stems from the sport being a game in which you cannot win unless everyone on the team contributes and does their job. Football prepares men for life; it teaches skills such as teamwork, the ability to come back from a loss, and leadership. Additionally, I love football due to the promotion of competition and a strive for greatness that isn’t present in many other aspects of my life. This sport also enables me to increase my personal athletic ability, and to maintain a healthy lifestyle. However, football only makes up half of my passion for sports.

As a child and throughout my high school career, I have had an obsession with sports. Along with the sports I played came numerous injuries; in my eighth grade football season I suffered my worst. During the first kickoff of a game, an opposing player and I collided helmet to helmet; hitting the ground I realized something was wrong. After the play I was rushed to the hospital and informed by the doctor that my vertebrae had been fractured in two areas. I would not be able to finish my football season and miss the basketball season as well. Spending the next two and a half months in physical therapy; I learned countless things about the profession and what it entails. Not only does the human body fascinate me, but so does the idea of having

It all started when I was about three years old when my good friend Anthony Williams and I became friends when he ran his bike into my sand box. Football has been an event in my life since I was three years old and it still is today. “The key to life is not what life gives to you but what you take from life. It’s not how life treats you but how you treat life. You have a choice in life. You can either thrive or survive.”_ Coach London. Football has made me into the person I am today, hard working, and determined.

My father is a big football fan and even wrote in my baby book that he hoped I would grow up loving the game as much as he does. Well his dream came true as I am a self proclaimed football junkie. A few months prior to my Freshman year of High School I announced I would be

I can remember two plays vividly. The first was when I played fullback. It was third and long which is more times than not a passing situation, but this time the coach put his faith in me to make the first down. I remember getting the hand off and was running to the left. I got through the hole and saw a defender. I lowered my shoulder and ran over him, but I wasn’t to the first down yet. All of a sudden there were four people on me and I had my mind made up that I wasn’t going to let my team down, so I kept my legs driving carrying people and finally made it to the first down. Right there I knew that I could be a great player. The second play was a defensive play. The opposing team was up by three points and time was running out. The coach yelled from the sideline “We need a play,” so I took it upon myself to be the playmaker. The ball was snapped, it was a toss to my left. I saw the running back sprinting out and I took my pursuit angle. I met him head up and he started to go down and in the back of my mind I heard my coach’s voice and that made me do something I had never done. I stripped the ball out of his hand and ran for a touchdown. My team won. The next phase of my football career was about to begin now, middle school.