Personal Narrative: My High School Football Brotherhood

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.

Football is a game of passion, a time when nothing else matters and the only thing that matters is going out there having fun and fighting for the guy next to you. Football has always been something that I loved and had a wild passion for. I’ve made friendships and memories to last a life time and I can always be grateful that football did that for me. Now of course I’ve had some bad memories during football as well, I remember walking out of the film room on the last day of spring ball and having Coach Antle grab me and say “Gage, I think I want to try you at a new position, I want to put you at defensive end. We need you more there and we think you can really excel there.” I remember being so furious, I had played linebacker ever since I could remember and now the last day of spring ball my senior year everything was about to change.

Nothing means more to me than spending quality time on Sundays with my family, sitting on the couch and watching football. Even as a young kid, before I knew the names of the teams my Dad would say, “We’re rooting for the blue team!” I had no idea what was going on but I was so interested by the game that I would cheer and yell whenever my Dad would. This natural attention to this great game gave me the desire to prepare myself to eventually join a team. I learned how to motivate myself to workout, study plays and annoy my Dad enough to throw a ball with me in the backyard. I felt it was my purpose in life to become a professional and play football as

Football is not an individual sport because without the other ten players on the field it does not work well. In order for the team to be successful everyone must work together and it gave me a valuable life lesson to work well with others.  The injuries that we see in football is all apart of the game and people know what they are getting into they decide to play the game. The people like Almond that are making all the fuss about this are the same people who have never played. From playing the game I have learned that it is not all about injuries. It’s something that brings out true character in people by forcing them into stressful situations. You learn a lot about a person when they are forced into an uncomfortable

Imagine being member of a football team on the field while the crowd is cheering for their favorite team. You are probably wondering, “WOW, I never thought that I will be part of this team.” Football is not for everyone and being part of a football team does not mean that you are going to be in the spotlight. A person can learn much from playing football. Football teaches strength, discipline, and how to be a team player.

Growing up i was never really a big sports fan. I would watch basketball from time to time. It wasn’t until high school that I attended my first football game. I didn’t really understand the game at first but after a few games i got the hang of it. As i continued to go the games i started to notice the love that the fans and the teammates have for the game.

The environment I grew up in was really involved around spending time with my family and friends and being apart of sports teams and organizations. I love nothing more than being able to hang out with my friends and just having a great time laughing together and being ourselves. I have friends that I have been friends with ever since the first grade that I can truly call my brothers and that will be at my wedding when I get married, be there when I have my first child, and be there when my parents pass. A lot of these unbreakable bonds have come through and started with sports. My family and me are constantly watching sports and talking about new things going on in the sports world. My little brother, Cameron, and I have now won state

But that year it didn’t workout because our season got cut short because we didn’t have enough players anymore. Coakley describes that children desires to develop and display competence so they could gain recognition and respect from others. Even though my team was not the best I saw football as a way to have people accept me because every person loves a football player. I went through the four phase process that coakley explains which are acquireing knowledge about the sport, interactacting with people involved in sport, learning how participation occurs and what people in the sport expect from each other as athletes and becoming recognized and fully accepted as athlete in the sport culture. 7th grade year comes around and I have moved to Alabama.

Do you like football? Because this is my story about how I joined a football team! First, I asked my dad if I could join the school football team. My dad said “yeah I haven't really seen you on the football field so often, last time I did you played for the Heritage Hawks.” I was pretty nervous if they said no. So as I came up to meet the coaches, we talked and they said that they need a Right Tackle, so I was in! The coaches was was really nice, they said “after school tomorrow, show up at practice.”

Playing under the lights each Friday night was unparalleled to any high school experience I have had the honor to be a part of. As a young kid, I just wanted to be out there on the field to wear the brown and gold jerseys—the players at the time were my role models; I wanted to be just like them. It makes you feel part of something bigger than just the school when you have the name on the front of your jersey. Football not only builds character but life-long relationships with the people you would do anything for to reach a common goal. I learned how to trust one another like a family. If a player went down, we had trust in the “next man up”; we were one. The game is a true testament of how practice leads to improvement when dedication and

The decision on whether to play college football has been one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to ponder. Football has been my passion for a very long time, as far back as I can remember in fact. While holding a football for the first time, I knew I had found the love of my life. Following my football passion may require me to leave my hometown, friends and

My relationship with football will soon come to an end, as it will for so many others this year. From the beginning of summer until now is when everything has started to settle in that this is my last year. This year is everything that me and my teammates have worked for my whole high school football career. Everybody has worked to make their mark on the school and the game. Through all of the summer and beginning of the school year we have worked hard to make this season one for the books.

Football (and other high school sport activities) are one the best ways to teach life skills that will help a person in the future. I’ve played football since I was in 4th grade and it has been one of the biggest influences in my life. Football taught me dedication/commitment, leadership, and become mentally tough.

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.

Dating back to my early childhood; football at the time was my only love. I breathed, slept and ate football. It started off as just a friendly hobby around my neighborhood up until my tenth-birthday when I joined a little league football team. Over the years I continued to play, it got even more exciting for me when my friends from the neighborhood start joining the team as well. Things suddenly changed for me moving forward into my high school career. Although this was once a fun stress reliever it was becoming the only thing that stressed me out.