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. 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. I was always happy at practice because I had fun playing football and being with the guys, but that day the field was the last place I wanted to be. My friend Ryan knows me better than most and he could tell I was acting weird and I wasn’t with the
Anxiety surged through every portion of my body. Tears streamed down my face almost as fast as thoughts flooded through my head. “It won’t be the same. You’ll be uncomfortable. The coach will hate you. They’ll all make fun of you. You won’t be good enough.” I struggled to push the thoughts from my head.
So, right when I got home I had to get ready, get my Gatorade and go to practice. Meanwhile, when we got there my coach huddled us up again just like last time and told my team and I, “ Here we go boys last practice of the year and the game is tomorrow make your last practice count!” he said. When he said that we should make this last practice count well that didn't go so well neither did my confidence go up. Meanwhile, since we went to hit first yesterday now we have to do the field first and do ground balls.
It was a nice day so I wanted to see if my friends could play, I rode my bike to Alex and Tony’s house. I got to the door and rang the bell.
Later in the day, my wife pointed out to me that there was a picture of me in the newspaper, vomiting. When I saw that picture for the first time my stomach turned. I thought I was going to throw up again. It was incredibly humiliating and I knew I couldn’t let the people who looked up to me the most see me like that. Not my teammates, my peers, my wife, my son, nobody. It was pathetic. With that picture out in the media, I was already focused on tomorrow’s practice. I was determined to come back the next day, playing harder than ever, and proving everyone wrong.
Football wasn’t just a sport for me. It shaped my life in a lot of different ways it helped me become the person I am today. I started playing football when I was twelve years old when I started play it became the best sport ever. I started learning how to do a lot of different stuff on the football field. Football allowed me to take my anger out on the field.
I come from a house where football is the reigning source of pride and entertainment. When I was younger, my family and I would wake up early on Saturday morning and get ready for my little league football game; afterwards, my dad would sit in his chair and watch college football. I had very minute competition for starting positions for all my life, until I reached the high school level. When I reached the end of my freshman year of football, I was one of the lucky ten to move up to the varsity level. It was the first year I had never gotten a chance to play in a game, and it felt as if I had no right to be considered a state champion. The following year, I earned a starting position on the varsity defensive line, and I immediately started to become over-confident of this achievement. Due to not producing on the field, I lost that starting position to stubbly little senior a few weeks into the season. I was soon switched to offensive line where I earned a starting spot on the roster. Later on in the first round of the play offs, I broke my foot and was not able to play the rest of the year. That was a rough year to say the least, for my
It was a casual Friday morning, a little bleaker and laid back and no one was in a rush to get to where they needed to go. I was moving along at my casual pace and the only difference i had felt that i hadn’t encountered throughout the previous mornings of my football games, were the butterflies in my stomach. I was nervous, and I don’t usually get nervous the morning of my football games. But I was, and I couldn’t get this desperate feeling in my stomach to go away. I had tried everything but my body knew, with Michael out a lot more responsibilities would be pointed towards me offensively and defensively. I was worried that I would make a mistake and cost our team an undefeated, hard-fought season we had spent hours getting better 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
My love for football began when I was only in the 5th grade. This was the year I decided to play football for the first time. Sign ups were at the elementary school about two weeks after the end of my 4th grade year. When I signed up I proudly picked the number 81, which I chose after my favorite football player Calvin Johnson. Approximately halfway through that same summer was our youth camp. Youth camp was the very first thing all the Roscommon youth team started with every year. At the youth camp the players and coaches off the varsity team would come down and help with the fundamentals and basics of playing football. The coaches decided that they wanted me to start off playing wide receiver and outside linebacker. Coaches made the youth camp extremely fun and that cemented the fact that I really
In my opinion it is the best sport that I have ever came in contact with. Between Baseball, Basketball, Tennis and Track I believe that Football is the greatest sport ever created. It is my favorite thing in popular culture right now. The game of Football also allowed me to build character and grow as a person, and it taught me how to preserver through adversity. This game has enhanced my perception about commitment and sacrifice. This sport is the reason that I am able to attend the Howard University. This game is also a good stress reliever; I mean who wouldn’t want to hit someone legally without getting in trouble.
One shivery shadowy December night at my football game, my friend and I got into a ferocious fight that I still remember to this day. It was on the football field where my friend Andrew traded words that I would never forget. A ghastly fight that I never thought would happen to me and my friend Andrew.
We jog out to the field after warm ups and a quick water break. It was about 6pm, and I feel a nice breeze over my shoulders and think, this is going to be a good practice. Our coach, Coach Pue, was setting up the 3 cone drill, a drill where one of our running backs run the ball while 3 defenders try to tackle him. We started and I ran a couple of times, feeling good about our
One of the things that makes me the happiest in life is football. I have been fascinated by the game ever since I was a kid. I remember playing catch with my dad every day during the summer. Me, my dad, and my brothers would play catch all day long. Literally from when we woke up until we had to go inside and eat dinner. It was the greatest time of my life.
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.
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.