My Favorite Sport: Football

My very first Varsity high school football game was the best experience of my life. It was the first week of school and I had practice every day. The practices were heavy we practiced for four hours every day after school. Everyone on the team felt we were being overworked but, that was just the beginning of our season. Our first game was a Friday night all that time practicing made us ready for that night. Two hours before the game we had loud music playing and we were all yelling to get ready for the game. I remember getting on the field and hearing all the fans screaming. Now it was time for kickoff I lined up on the 50-yard line then the whistle was blown, and I sprinted to go tackle the ball carrier. I made lots of hits but also took some

The first year I paid attention to football, I was eight years old. It was 2008 - the infamous winless year for the Detroit Lions. I watched them lose every game; and yet, when football season came around the next year, I watched every game, this time, while I participated in fantasy football. I’ve played fantasy football every year since, and in the meantime, I’ve seen my family both brought together and torn apart by something that appears to be just a game. We’ve had our hearts broken, and we’ve been so excited we couldn’t contain ourselves. Sports have done so much in my life, and as a result, I would love the opportunity to turn my passion of sports into a career. Michigan athletics have played a role in turning me into a sports fanatic,

Playing football was probably one of the most valuable experiences I’ve had in my lifetime. It taught me a lot of things and I learned a lot of lessons. In this writing you will learn what I went through when I was on the football team.

Football remains the most popular sport in America and the ninth most popular sport in the world for a reason. Since its creation in 1869, football has played a fundamental part of American society. Every Sunday, my family along with millions of other Americans turn the television to CBS, NBC or FOX to watch their favorite football team go to battle. My family and I bleed burgundy and gold and root for the home team the Washington Redskins. Americans including myself display great intensity and passion for the game of football and the result of the game often changes my attitude for the better or worse. Watching the game on television may come as exhilarating and entertaining, but playing the game creates the best times. Overall football has made a severe impact on many people’s lives. Football teaches unique lessons in a hands on manner which helps athletes like myself sustain a much more adventurous life. Football has made an immeasurably positive influence upon my life, but the sport has its dangers. Football changes lives.

For a lot of kids, it’s not until it’s all said and done, and they look back on it several years later, that they realize the difference the sport made in their lives. They are proud of playing the game. Have you ever met anybody who accomplished playing four years of high school football, and at the end of that run said, ‘Man, I wish I wouldn’t have played’? It doesn’t get said. Football players aren’t perfect. Nobody is. But millions of former players, one by one, can recount the life-altering principles they learned from football. They know the value of football is the values in football.That’s why high school football – and particularly high school coaches – play such a vital role in our society. Our football coaches are on the front lines of the battle for the hearts and minds of the boys in our society.

The most important game of the year was coming up and I was ready. Everything was going perfect for me, because I was the starting QB as a freshmen at Englert High School. We were playing Joston High School the number 1 team in the nation since 1960, it was going to be a tough game because they had the number 1 ranked defense, but we had the best offense. The day before the game was just a normal day I went to school and had football practice after school. A couple weeks ago one of the other teams that we had played earlier in the year wanted another game so we decided to play them. They had been the hardest team we had played all year, we had only beat them by a last efforts field goal it hardly went in as it bounced in off the crossbar.

grader when football caught my interest, football was always a huge part of my family. Football impacted both my Mom and Dad’s side of the family, everyone was connected to football, whether they played the sport, cheered , or was their soon to be husband’s biggest fan. I come from a small city in the Rio Grande Valley. My city isn’t the largest there is but, this city made me the person I am today and I’ve made so many memories here so this city means the world to me. Growing up here, sports was a major part of my life. A majority of kids always slept in most weekends, but I always had practice or games on Saturdays. Sundays I was up early to attend church with my family.

Nine years ago I watched my very first football game, and I was fascinated by the quote from Vince Lombardi, “Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”So the succeeding year, I requested if I could do football and my grandpa said to me “Son if you want to play football, play on the line, and play on defense it is going to take dedication and determination, and you have to practice every day, do calisthenics every day, and most of all learn about how to play on the line of scrimmage.”

I first began my football experience at the age of six playing city league flag football. I’ve come a long way since then and the sport has greatly helped mold me into the person I am today. It’s taught me to keep pushing through adversity and showed me the utmost importance of communication and teamwork. Through football, I have learned that I am a dedicated, passionate individual with an above average work ethic and a vigorous motor. This sport has affected my life greatly and I love it because of that. This is why I hope to find a perfect academic, athletic, and social fit to continue playing football at the collegiate

My experiences with my high school’s football team had begun some four years earlier, as an eighth grader. I was approached one day at lunch by a high schooler interested in knowing whether or not I wanted to try out for the freshman team in high school. Although I had no knowledge or previous interest in football, I was big, and thus a desirable candidate for the team. I decided to join out of curiosity.

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.

Football is one of my favorite sports. I love anything competitive. I was introduced to football at a young age when my father used to take me to my hometown high school team, Central High School (Bridgeport), football games. As I got older, he would take me to Division 1 college football games, and from their, NFL games at Metlife Stadium. I love the Green Bay Packers, and people often recognize me as always wearing Green Bay's apparel. I would never miss a game, always laying on my couch, with my jersey chanting at the inatimate television screen at the top of my lungs like a deranged person. When football wasn't on the big screen, I was playing the sport outside with my neighbors, who would always bring out my competivie side and challenge me. Some day I hope of playing for atleast a high school team, which will be challenging due

Growing up on the East Coast, football has always been one of the most popular sports around. I developed a pure passion for the game when I was a young boy and constantly yearned for the day I could finally put the pads on and play the game I loved. However, no pep talk from my parents could prepare me for the intensity of playing in such a competitive local division.

With the opening my interception play had given my team a moral boost to a point I’ve never seen my teammates play before. The game was electrifying the parents and all enjoyed watching. You could tell from all the noise it was exciting to watch us play. I was proud of myself that day. To be the weakest link on the team to becoming a leader a positive influence, from that day forward I knew football was what I loved to do and play.

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.