Football Fever Monologue

They both cried and he said it will be okay. “Win the championship this year for me buddy,” said his dad, “I will, I promise,” said James. After two months, football season started and they were facing the Florida Pirates. It was close, but the Rams managed to pull it off with a winning field goal. The rest of season was tough, the toughest season yet for James. In the last game they faced the Hawks again. If they win, they will be in the playoffs and face Alabama. This was James’ best game yet. He scored three touchdowns and ran for over two hundred yards. The Rams got their revenge and defeated the Hawks 35-21. They are going to the

When they focus too much on football or whatever sport they are playing, than their grades falter, and they lose their chance to get a solid degree. One student that broke the trap that high school athletes fall into is Brian Chavez, a student at Permian High School in Friday Night Lights. “As the number-one student in his class, his aspirations extended far beyond the glimmer of expectation that a Texas school, any Texas school, might be willing to give him a football scholarship. He had set his sights differently, zeroing in on a target that seemed incomprehensible to his family, his friends, just about everyone. He wanted to go to Harvard” (Bissinger 13). Chavez is essentially the antithesis of all his peers and classmates; instead of making football the high point of his entire life, he values his future and education over the present glory of football. Despite being pressured into setting aside his future dreams in order to better the team, he does not fall into the trap his society had set for him. Chavez ended up enjoying Permien football as well as going to Harvard, so he is the prime example of how high school athletes should carry themselves. But unfortunately, it is extremely tough for most athletes in towns such as Odessa or Winthrop to do so. High school football encapsulates their entire lives, and the pressure put

Nate Brodie has a dream to meet Tom Brady and to win a million dollars. The only way he can accomplish this goal is with hard work and determination. So he starts by practicing everyday, all day he throws a football through a tire. He does this to work on his accuracy and so he knows he can do it. He also practices by being on the high school football team. There is so much on the line for him at the time. His parents are in financial trouble and his best friend is going to go blind if they don't get a surgery soon.

“All I was thinking was anything in the outfield I was going home.” Townsend said, “I got a good secondary lead and I put my head down and ran as fast as I could, because I knew it was going to be close.”

Hearing him say that to me made me want to drop my things and walk out of the room, I wanted to turn away from football and never look back. Instead I went with it, that whole practice I was mad and everyone could tell. Many times, that day players would come up and ask “hey man is everything okay?” The only thing I could even say back was “I’m fine,” but they all knew I was anything but fine.

Kalen Ballage's decision to return to school probably was due to the amount of talent he would be behind in the 2017 NFL Draft. The current running back class has Fournette (LSU), Dalvin Cook (FSU), Christian McCaffery (Stanford), D'Onta Foreman (Texas)

De’Shaun Buzzwell was born on October 13th, 1989 in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was always really fast and had a lot of energy. Because of this, his mother put him into sports. He played baseball, football, and basketball. His favorite sport was football. He played on an elite traveling football team that he was the star of. His dream was to play college football for Oklahoma State University. He worked day in and day out. Because of his hard work and effort, not only did he get his dream of playing for OSU, it also gave him a first round draft pick with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That didn’t automatically mean that he was the best player on the team though. He had a very rough first season, only playing in five games and having the worst average rushing yards for rookie W.R., and only scored one touchdown in the season In the off-season, he didn’t expect to get anywhere. But, his friend worked with him every day in the off-season. They worked every other day on speed, agility, endurance, and strength. He never quit. His hard work in the off-season paid off, as he played in fourteen out of his team’s sixteen games for the season and averaged the best rushing yards for a wide receiver for the entire NFL, and had eight touchdowns. The

Miles was the star of his team, until the head coach got cancer and had to resign.Then, coach Stahl took over, but he didn't like Miles. After the first game of Stahl being coach Miles was put on the bench. For the rest of the season Miles got no play time(in the games). Until, on the last game a lot of people on his team got hurt or taken out and miles got to play. He was the star of the game by tackling the other team huge half back

“I just came out to play football,” Pead said. “It’s another preseason game. I’ve been having a good camp, and I just wanted to put something on film.”

It all began on a Saturday during his sixth grade year for Anselem Umeh. He was watching his older brother play football and quickly was inspired by the game and amazed by the crowd reaction and engagement. “I want to do that too,” was his first thought after watching it, and that’s exactly what he did. The following year he joined a Pop Warner football team where he quickly discovered his love for the game on top of the fact that he excelled in the sport. He would soon find out that that Saturday watching his older brother play would be the beginning of an impressive football career to come.

"Well, they have a couple guys who are over 300 pounds," Crook said. "They got a couple guys who come really fast off the edge. It is what college football is today. You see great athletes lined up at defensive end that are fast, that are long, explosive and can come around the corner really quick. You are going to see guys inside that are hard to move. They anchor against the run game. You have a 300 pounder pushing into you trying to push back towards the quarterback, it's hard for a certain guard to anchor in there and stop it. Everything they do is hard to control, hard to block."

“I've grown a lot as a player, as a person, and in everything else since the spring game,” Sills said. “I think we had a great summer. I think we really got good timing in together, all the receivers really. We worked really hard in the weight room, on the field. I think the summer was great. Coach Carrier helped me with a lot over the summer and during fall camp with technique and how to become a better receiver. It's really transferred over. We've done a lot of film study, just watching one-on-one's and stuff like that. We've looked at different ways to make your game better and I think that's transferred over onto the field. So, I'm happy with

“Don’t ever try to stiff arm me again boy.” With that, he returned to the field as his

After I hurried out and jumped in his Chevrolet Malibu, a old one, but still a classic. We drove quickly over to the practice field and heard Mr. Tighe yell already, “you guys need to hustle! Warm Ups starts in 5 minutes” with not even knowing how long it takes to put the gear

During the team huddle at the end of their time, the coaches gave the team feedback from practice. Coach Collinsworth stated, “we worked hard and had a successful practice.”