Personal Narrative: Football

I enjoyed playing on Friday nights, as the hometown crowd would be cheering us on, I played both offensive and defensive lineman. Not to brag, I was pretty good at my position. . I would be all over the field. As I was running, my chest began to hurt because of my choices in the past. The more I ran

September 20, 2011 was the day that everything changed. Practice that day was long and excruciatingly hot. My coach did not let me take a rest as I was the only full back we had at the time. Hit after hit, it started to add up and my world was spinning but coach told me to keep going, so I did. The very next snap my world got wrecked. My form became lazy because I was beyond exhausted and dehydrated, my head lead my attempt to break the tackle and the kid making the tackle lead with his head as well. Just like that my body went numb, everything was dark, my eyes were open but I could not see. I had no sense of where I was and where I was going. My name left me. At this point I did not know if I was dead or alive. This was the last time I was ever able to strap up and play the game of football. This is what happens to the millions of kids who play football on a daily basis. Somebody was there telling them to go back in even when they were showing early signs of a concussion. The athlete takes one more hit straight to the head out of poor form or exhaustion and then everything goes from bad to worse. These events take place at such a young age that the long term side effects can be fatal.

Football is back as the first preseason game was played last Thursday. With football coming back, so does fantasy football. Like a lot of people (myself included), you’re scouring the internet for rankings. There’s plenty of rankings out there, but none of them tell you where to take a defense. I am going to present my strategy.

I could hear it, the bell, signaling a touchdown. Except this time it wasn’t one of my teammates, it was me. Oh how I had dreamt about hearing that bell it was the ultimate sensory experience. I knew at that moment that there was a reason you never stopped believing you could do something.

I never expected my life to turn out this way!! 2020 Darren Clayton enters the NFL draft to contend against top players most teams wanted. I was surprised that I had made it that far.Now imam take you back to my childhood. I was only 10 years old in 2010 I wasn’t really a football lover, I was mostly a basketball fan. I mainly played basketball and watched it more than football. I never played football in my life the only sports I played was basketball and baseball but I never pursued it to the fullest it was just something I would do in the mean time to kill sometime in elementary school and middle school. In middle school I got curious about football so I joined the flag football team and played at an tournament against other people. At the tournament we played three teams, we only won

Do you ever wonder how to play a sport called American football. Well if so, then you've come to the right person. On a football team you must give it all and then some, you can never give up/quit. On a team you don't say that they are your team you call them your brothers. You give them your best they’ll give you their absolute best. This is where the quote “ I got your number I got your back” comes in.

I could say that football was the best way of getting rid of my stress in school and other personal stresses than any other ways. It also made a stable relationship with my friends in school not verbally but physically from football. When I got closer to the students in school, some friends of mine informed and demonstrated me ways to defend and rush in many different styles. Due to learning many different styles of defending and rushing, I was able to recognize naturally what kind of movement should made by all positions in order to make a successful play like in baseball when the catcher gives the signal to the pitcher. Even though we weren’t the champions at the state's level or the best players in the school history, the importance was that my team and I have enjoyed and ardented playing football. I learned that football is a sport; you have to try your best and never give up with your team, even in hard trainings and number of loses of games. Personally, I would express football as a fight against 2 castles of an country, the defensive line is the wall of the castle that is defending and offensive line is also a wall but it is full of army of soldiers who is trying break through

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 had prepared for weeks on end for this day, every week trying to better myself for this day, hoping that when this day came the hard work would pay off. It was the day of my trials to get into the Scotland under fifteen squad that would go to Sweden to compete in one of Europe’s biggest basketball tournaments. I and a few others made the trip down to the Peak in Stirling to compete for a place in the squad. The whole journey down I was tense thinking about what would come from today, I prayed that I would make the cut.

I believe that most of my professors would look at me and think that I am active, but I think that they would be surprised to know about my football career. Having the chance to play professionally for the Canadian Football League, while taking 19 credit hours, would be something that they would probably be surprised to know about. In terms of traits, I think that they would find it somewhat surprising that I am naturally a shy person. In class, I like to stay active in conversation and participation because we may potentially be graded upon this. Outside of the classroom, I am typically more reserved. I am usually more focused on things that I need to get done in order to succeed, as opposed to joining a group of people for coffee and chatting.

Football is a great sport. I also did football myself. When I was nine years old I joined the Tri County Hurricanes. When I first joined the team I was trash. I did not know how to hold the ball, throw the ball, nor catch the ball. When I was practicing at home and on the field I got better and better every day . So I got back on the field the next month and I out ran people, caught the ball, and I made the QB( Quarterback ) spot and wants we got done all you done all you can smell is the wet grass and all you can hear is the football players hitting each other back to back to back.

“Boom, pow, crack”, this is what you will hear every weekday in august, whether it's 85 and sunny or 65 and rainy on the football practice field. You can witness players hitting each other, while practicing our offensive plays until perfection and running sprints for what feels like hours on end. Best of all you can smell all the hard work the guys next to you have put in, measured by the raunchy body odors they left behind. All of this hard work is done for the sweet taste victory every friday night. Although there is so much more to football than wins and losses, or touchdowns and tackles. Football changes lives in so many amazing ways, something it has personally done to me.

Football is a sport where you find who you are on the inside; it is more than just a sport it is a battle of trust and self-defiance with others and yourself. You push yourself to your very wits, while finding the strength to lift your teammates, knowing that you are only as strong as your weakest link. You struggle to build a trusting relationship with your teammates, yet this relationship grows and before you know it they become your brothers, and a family forms. Through the struggles I realize we may fall, but we still rise to face another week, because you are built a fighter and you are fighting for something bigger than yourself. I start to realize that football and life go hand in hand; and the hardships we face in football come in

I love playing football. I have been playing since the day I cannot remember. I used to play for my school in my country. Almost everyone in my country loves football. Well Americans call it soccer but I am going call it football since that is what they teach me to call it.

Freshman year of football was an eye-opener for me, and the rest of the team. It was our first year in highschool and all the big changes distracted a lot of us. Us, as players, learned new plays and new techniques that we would use all throughout our years at West Delaware. I remember feeling swamped in all the new information that was thrown my way. Coach Morris, and Worden did an outstanding job of letting us process the new material and made us comfortable with what we were learning. Practices were very fun and laid back, but our performance on the field showed that. Yielding a 2-6 record that year, I recall my thoughts walking off the field for the last time after getting . I was thinking, “Is football for me? Should I really play next year?”. The question stayed in the back of my mind all through the winter. Eventually spring rolled around and I was forced to make my decision.