The Importance Of Failure In High School Football

Failure can put things in perspective. While playing football my senior year, failure wasn't on my mind very often. We were the number one ranked team in the state and had cruised throughout the season, winning most of our games by large margins. So that made it more difficult to accept when we lost early on in the playoffs. It was hard to accept for most of us that we would never play football again. The loss at the end of that season made me reminisce on my high school football career. I realized how amiss I was allowing the small things to bother me during practice instead of benefiting from every minute. I began to miss all of the things that once annoyed me so much. Coaches barking at the players for not going hard enough, staying after