My Experience with Football Essay

Starting 8th grade football, being one of the older kids, felt awesome. I knew I had advantage over most of the kids on the team. My job being one of the older one’s was to teach the younger ones their place. It was the first day of practice I was really excited to be playing the sports again. I was confident that I would be the running back because I played that position

I was only a sophomore at the time, so I was still new to high school football and I wasn’t the greatest athlete either. I am on my second year of highschool football, and now is when football got very intense for me because the coaches were getting us ready for Varsity football. Early in the season our starting center on the team got injured with a very severe concussion that kept him out the whole season. I was playing Junior Varsity as a left tackle so I never thought I would have to play center. However a few weeks and games went by and one day our backup center got hurt in practice. The next day my coach called me into his office and said, “you are the backup center now so i’m going to need you to be ready for the game this week if we need you.” My heart sunk into my chest because I was so nervous and scared at the thought of playing

So it was during my 6th grade year. I realized that I wanted to start playing football for a team and talked to my mom about playing for the high school. My mom took me to get a physical so I would be able to participate in the summer workouts. It finally became the summer before the 7th grade, the first year I would be trying out for a team. My mom took me to the school, and I gave my physical to a coach, then i went with the other players that were here to lift. We lifted that whole summer, and the season was finally upon us. The first few games, sat on the side line with zero play time. The next game I was the ball boy. It was at Summerville High school. It was raining that day, the other teammates, coaches, and I were completely soaked.

Since it was my very first varsity game I was extremely nervous and scared to let my team down. On the first drive I was called out to punt from the back of our end zone. I prepared myself for the worst because our starting long snapper was injured, so my long snapper was a tight end who had never snapped before in his life. The ball ended up being snapped 3 ft over my head and about 10 ft to my left, so I sprinted to get under the ball, jumped

I was pushed around, yelled and cursed at by some of the biggest dads I have ever seen, but I kept my spirits high in order to pursue greatness. I wasn’t used to wearing a helmet and pads, so catching a football was a challenge. A few weeks down the road, after many hours of observation, the coaches put me on defense in the position of Defensive End. I had no idea what this position was and what my job was. I learned that the Defensive End (DE), plays on the very end of the defensive line and the job of the DE is to rush the Quarterback and to stop any run plays in my direction. I wasn’t very good at doing my job and my coach sought me out and reminded me of that every

I played football in high school for all 4 years. My freshmen and sophomore year I wasn't very good. I was a backup and never played. Then came along my junior year, I was still undersized and didn't start but I improved my skill greatly and I started to increase my work ethic. The off-season before my junior year I went hard in the weight room and became strong. I also lost some weight and gained some height. That's hard work in the offseason is what lead to me having a great senior year. My senior year was full of emotion, I felt tired, determined, and at the end of the season I felt sadness with no regret and the love for my brothers. The first thing we had to do to become a great team was build a brotherhood with kids who wanted to try.

The first time I played football was in AYA. I was not good at all execpt at MLB(middle line backer) it was also my first year so i didnt know much. We lost about every game execpt for one time we actully won. But i got a concussion that game because a kid from my on team hit me in the back of my head. Our record that year was 2-7. When i got to 7th grade football it was way diffrent from AYA so at tryouts i went to the running back and quaterback position and i got the position . The next week we got our teams i made b-team i was so mad.But i got over it and the first game was aginst south our rivrly game. Forte vs south our biggest game of the year. Sadly we lost 14-12 but it was the closest frte has ever got to beating them. We

The summer of seventh grade changed my life drastically waking up at 6:30 AM to go to football camp in the morning was completely new to me. But i knew from the very beginning that i wanted to have this sport in my life as long as i could, something about putting on football pads and running for a touchdown or tackling someone i just absolutely loved. And while football practice to

I never played any sports but when I got to high school I played football. It was so fun. I was a wide receiver on offense and on defense I was an outside linebacker. A couple days past and we won our first game 21-7. After that game I was so exhausted so the next day I was really tired. I wasn't doing that well in classes. So because of practice and all of my games I was beginning to fail some of my classes. I talked to

I started playing tackle football in second grade in a town called Anthem,Arizona.There I tried to play quarterback and got shut down immediately and was relocated to Tight End.I played at that position for the next three years.Our team was good and we went to nationals in Florida and we placed fourth there.

Once when I was in 4th grade, I decided I wanted to play football. By that time the season was already over, so I joined the team the next year. It was my first year and my coach said that I had a lot of potential. He said I had more than he’s seen in a long time of coaching.

My freshman year flew by as I stood on the sideline game after game, not even caring that I wasn't playing. I was so intimidated by other better players on the team that I did not even want to try and get playing time. Just like that, my freshman year of football went to waste, and I wanted change. I started sophomore year with a new plan. I was going to work harder than everyone no matter who they were. The off-season started and I was introduced to our new JV coach, Coach Mike. The intensity of his practices left me to question every day if that practice was more exhausting than the last. Despite the difficulty, I worked as hard as possible every day, and it paid off. I did not know it at the time but I was not just growing physically, but also mentally. Football taught me leadership, sacrifice, discipline, bravery, selflessness, and most importantly, it taught me resilience. Playing football was and still is one of the most difficult things I've experienced, but football brings out one's true character, and for that very reason, I am glad that I was influenced that day into

The next season I started to play indoor during the off season, I became really connected to this team called the bears. At the end of the indoor season my parents asked if I could be on their regular season team. I made the team so all I had to do was wait.

I had always been told my entire life that I should play football. Always the biggest kid in all of my classes. People would ask me all the time what position I played, I had no idea what they were talking about and they were always surprised when I told them that I had never played football, and that I had never planned to. But the older, bigger, and stronger I got and the more encouragement I got, finally I decided to play my sophomore year of highschool. There was one game I will always remember that really kick started my love and passion for the game.

Growing up I use to see my two big brothers playing football so I decided to give it a try. I saw football on TV and on video games. Kids at school used to talk about it so much that I got interested in it. I also saw football as an opportunity because I wanted to go to the NFL and playing football was the best way to make it.