The Influence Of Being On The Football Team

My freshmen year, it took me a while to start talking to new people because I was super shy. However, due to my performance in my races, people started to learn my name and actually reached out to me to get to know me. Therefore, I began to become familiar and more comfortable with the members on my team. I decided that I needed to do the same and connect with others my sophomore year. To do so, I started to join various school clubs and attend my church’s youth services, where I met new people. Now my peers see me as a “social butterfly”.

The UNR football team is divided amongst a variety of demographics and characters. After close review and analysis of my observation of the UNR football team, I could not depict a certain demographic that stood out because everyone is particularly different in their own way. Meaning that there is no dominant race, religion, or social class in regards to the players or coaching staff. Furthermore, there is also an abundance of different types of characters on the football team. Upon observing the UNR football team, I found that many players and coaches act differently. Some players/coaches are loud and tend to be the “clowns” on the

Football isn’t just about going on the field and playing 4 quarters against another team every week. It’s not just those Friday nights going to watch your high school team play. Football is a brotherhood, it’s your second family. It’s making memories that you will have with you for the rest of your life. It’s the hours of preparation, sweat, tears, blood, bumps and bruises and going back out everyday just to give it your all. Football isn’t just a game that i’ve played it’s something that has shaped me into the person I am today.

Having that many players on your football team is overwhelming at first, but you get used to it after a while. Being an athlete, you always want to be the best on the field at all times. That is just a college football players mentality. When they are put into a situation where everyone is better than them; that makes them work harder to be better. When that all comes together it makes the team better on both sides of the ball. With everyone coming together, that creates competition and grudges towards the players. Having that grudge make a college player jealous about the starting position. They tend to start doing more and more everyday to earn that starting spot and to get on the travel squad. In high school, there was not that much competition, so it was pretty much set in stone that the starters were going to start the whole season. That also creates competition. Although there is competition in high school football, some players quit caring about the sport and end up not coming out for the team in the future. In college that does not happen, because the players are on a scholarship to be their and they do not want to lose that scholarship. That makes everyone work hard and that is why college football practices are so intense; because everyone is there for a reason.

There is nobody who knows more about football at the age of twelve than Charlie Gaines. Charlie is a very smart kid about football he knows the ins and outs of football. He is already a fantasy football mastermind everybody wants his insights about the latest week fantasy picks. Also, to add his best friend's grandfather owns a NFL team called the L.A Bulldogs, so he gets to go to all the games in L.A. Charlie is a very interesting character.

Football at Dewitt High School is probably the biggest thing at our school. Friday nights, the town closes down and everyone is at the stadium. Being on varsity as a sophomore was a cool experience even tho I wasn't on at the beginning of the season. In my eyes football is the hardest sport for men athletes, the fear that someone is always behind you and that there is the constant fear that you wont be on your game for the scouts that are there. To get a D1 scholarship you must be a freak. The kids coming out of high school and into college are unreal. So many kids that have some talent, and their parents run with that idea of them getting a scholarship. I have seen with my own eyes kids break under the pressure of either their parents or other

I believe that qualities such as work ethic and leadership are not innate but are developed. Starting from middle school to high school, football has helped me strengthen my resilience and work ethic. From waking up at 5:45 in the morning every day for workouts to giving my all during games, football has showed me that only hard work and perseverance can accomplish your goals. My goals are to be the first in my family to attend college and to have a successful future career. Both of these can only be accomplished by hard work and football has instilled in me a strong work ethic to help me achieve my goals. There are many aspects that make up leadership, aspects like being accountable, open-minded, and resourceful. Starting the Interact Club

As a freshman walk-on to the Football team, I had no idea what an impact it would have on my future. The skills I learned through football at NAU, such as perseverance, teamwork, the pursuit of excellence and the wisdom to overcome both physical and mental challenges, led me to find what I’m passionate about. Football at the college level is somewhat robotic, everyone hits the same, breaks the same, and even runs the same. There is zero personality in it. What I found through NAU though, is that I’m not identified as just an athlete.

When you think about football, what do you think about? Do you think about sportsmanship? Team building? Or Friendship? Well that’s great and all, but the fact is high school football has long lasting negative effects on the mind and body, as well as many short term effects on the mind and body. There are three main type of mental/physical effects that are consequences of playing football. First there’s the external physical effects, these are more along the lines of short term effects because they go away. Second, there’s internal physical effects, these affect the internal setup of the body, such as broken bones and torn ligaments/muscles. Finally, there’s mental effects, because injuries happen they can sometimes confuse the player, and make him afraid of what might happen. Most of the time this is the reason why those players get hurt again.

I've always been the type of puzzle piece to the wrong puzzle that never fits in. Trial and error with many cliches has left me without friends, but only acquaintances that I'm worthless to. Being shy and quiet in public has definitely shaped my life; my social anxiety was taking over more and more every day.

This particular game has such a big impact on my football career because it made me, it made me want to play football cause the game was so intensive. I loved how when the person who got the ball he would have to find an opening to run to but if he wasn't quick enough a guy is coming full speed ahead trying to knock his head off i also love How after every big play on defensive the tackler would jump up and celebrate. I loved how the quarterbacks and their receivers had good connection on boths side of the ball. Although i really didn't understand football well i liked how everything was full speed.

I would have a positive influence on the team I would be working with because I am genuinely committed to my legal career, thus I would be committed to Lindsays and the team. I would be willing to take on more responsibility and extra initiative. I would create positive work relations with everyone in the team. I would work hard and produce work of a high quality. Furthermore, I have a confident approach to all tasks and I am approachable. Therefore, I would ensure team members can approach me if they needed me a hand or wanted to provide me with some feedback. I am a positive person, so I believe I would bring positivity to the team.

Coaching a football team can be and become very stressful. Coaches normally strategize and research other teams that they previously played or have not played, but becoming aware of their many technigues used on the field. The coach can also make the wrong call that would interfer with the plan that they originally set out to accomplish. The coaching staff have to be on one accord when drafting players for their team, if the coach put the wrong group of players together, it could destroy the team as a whole.

Without a group of my own I floated. I would go from group to group trying to find one that would fit with me, or that I would fit with. It never happened. At one point, I annoyed two girls in my class, who, like me had no other friends but had attached to each other. I was the third wheel. I was too weird. Why didn’t I go find Shelly Miller, they asked. I had no idea who this was, being as she was from another elementary school and not in my school classroom grouping. Helpfully, she was described to me and the general location of where she usually was

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.