How Football Changed My Life
How Football has Changed my Life
What event changed your understanding of yourself, or that of someone you know?
I was five years old when I started. It was early august and it was my first time ever playing an organized sport. I could tell I was about a few weeks late for the practices because everyone else had a football helmet and I didn’t. It was nerve wracking to see all the kids playing and me not knowing what to do. At the time I was really short (well of course I was five) but some of the kids were twice my size. Ok maybe I exaggerated a little bit but still some of those kids were big. After a few minutes of looking like a deer in headlights one of the coaches finally gave me helmet I could use to practice with and, I went straight to practice. There was different stations because it wasn’t practice in full pads it was only conditioning. At that moment that was when my Journey began to …show more content…
I believed that wasn’t right but I never came back to football for a long time. Then one day I realized I want to play football again because it is what I loved. So, in August in the year of 2014 that’s when I began to play again. I hadn’t played football since first grade and I had very little experience so I really had to work hard. I remember the first hitting drill I did with that team I got layed out. Its funny to me now because I was one of the new kids and they put me against the hardest hitter on the team. Before I went against the kid I was somewhat nervous because the kid was pretty big. From that moment I learned to never stop moving when you go head up with somebody because chances are that that you are going to get ran over. But thing that benefited me most was the coaching staff. Yes sometimes they were mean but they did not only teach us how to play football they taught us life lessons, and to learn from our
What event changed your understanding of yourself, or that of someone you know?
I was five years old when I started. It was early august and it was my first time ever playing an organized sport. I could tell I was about a few weeks late for the practices because everyone else had a football helmet and I didn’t. It was nerve wracking to see all the kids playing and me not knowing what to do. At the time I was really short (well of course I was five) but some of the kids were twice my size. Ok maybe I exaggerated a little bit but still some of those kids were big. After a few minutes of looking like a deer in headlights one of the coaches finally gave me helmet I could use to practice with and, I went straight to practice. There was different stations because it wasn’t practice in full pads it was only conditioning. At that moment that was when my Journey began to …show more content…
I believed that wasn’t right but I never came back to football for a long time. Then one day I realized I want to play football again because it is what I loved. So, in August in the year of 2014 that’s when I began to play again. I hadn’t played football since first grade and I had very little experience so I really had to work hard. I remember the first hitting drill I did with that team I got layed out. Its funny to me now because I was one of the new kids and they put me against the hardest hitter on the team. Before I went against the kid I was somewhat nervous because the kid was pretty big. From that moment I learned to never stop moving when you go head up with somebody because chances are that that you are going to get ran over. But thing that benefited me most was the coaching staff. Yes sometimes they were mean but they did not only teach us how to play football they taught us life lessons, and to learn from our