How Football Affected My Life

Football started at a early stage for me, my grandpa was a huge fan of the San Francisco 49'ERS. Ever since I was little I would always walk down the street and watch all the Sunday, Monday, and Thursday football games with him. After watching

I always wanted to be in the National Football League (NFL). I wanted people to come to every game and say hey this kid has been through a lot to get here. I love playing football because I love being aggressive and physical always something to do and work on. My dad is the one who got me into football and inspired me to join a tackle football team.

Sports have been a huge part of my life ever since I was about five years old. It has impacted my life so much. The biggest challenge that I faced was with my injuries during basketball and soccer season. I recently had to quit soccer and basketball, which was difficult for me.

Nevertheless I worked hard and through training and top-notch coaching, opportunities to play football in college came. The Narrator from the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson relates to my story. First of all he grew up in a small Georgia town and moved to Connecticut for better schooling and life. His family valued education highly like mine, his mother wanted him to go to an Ivy league school and he had the abilities to go to one. He “escaped” the small town like me and ended up doing astounding things. The narrator headed off to college and he partook in many careers to get regain enough money to attend

“You will never be good enough. You are not trying your hardest. Why can you not do anything right?” These are common phrases from parents who put too much emphasis on sports. The parents from the documentary, Trophy Kids, push their children as if they were professional athletes, yet they’re only high school age or younger. As these parents push their children they are doing more harm than good. These parents may believe that they are using positive reinforcement, in reality, they are just tearing their child down. They tell the child everything they are doing wrong rather than helping them understand what they can do improved. In America today, AAU sport involvement is at an all-time high. Club sports are so large no one knows quite

Jeff Scurran is the head football coach at Carolina Foothills High School in Tucson, Arizona and he wrote an article on why football is a necessity that society can’t get rid of. “We are teaching kids traits desired by many professions, including the military. I took my team on a trip to West Point a few years ago. I wasn’t surprised to find out that every freshman cadet was required to play on an intramural football team. Because in football, we are teaching kids hustle, determination, teamwork, effort, discipline, intelligence, and that hard work pays off.” High school football is one of the only sports that teaches so many traits that are proven to improve your academics, and could eventually assist you in life in general. “Look at the ones who stay, learn, put in the work to develop their technique- and put in the classroom to remain academically eligible. Other sports promote this but the combination of teamwork and toughness in football is second to none,” Scurran says in his article, “These are essential qualities to being successful in life; the intangibles are

the reason I played football is because i wanted to try it out. Im really glad I did because the year the I play football had to be the best year ever. It was so much fun. The team was fun to because i meet lot of new people and like i said made a second family. the coaches where nice and so was the team.

The mindset that society thrusts upon most high school athletes can take away from academics and other opportunities they may have for their future. For many high school football athletes, they are primarily focused on one thing throughout their high school years: sports. Evidence 1: In towns such as Odessa in Friday Night Lights, players are swallowed up by the glamour of football and neglect most things not related to football, rather than balance sports with academics. “It was a phenomenon that Trapper had seen dozens of times before, a kid so caught up in it all that there was no room for anything else, another kid for whom nothing in life would ever be so glorious, so fulfilling as playing high school football. Trapper didn’t see the

I was an incoming freshman, two weeks prior to my first day of high school, and I was terrified. I knew that I loved the sport of football, however I had heard stories from my brother about how tough Stepinac’s freshman football coach was. Everything that I was told was true. One of the coaches great lessons that he taught me was that a hardworking disciplined team is typically more successful than a team that has all of the talent in the world, but is not disciplined and does not work hard. That summer was the hardest that I had ever worked up to that point to start in a football game. The hard work never paid off, and I left at the end of that season defeated. I wasn’t good enough, I wasn’t fast enough, and I wasn’t strong enough. I had only played in two of the games, one, for a snap when

Even though it was a struggle for me to even go to practice everyday, I still pushed through and I made the best of every single situation. When game day came, and it was time to play, all I could think about was the feeling I would get when the ball hit my hand. Many people don’t understand what it feels like. It feels like you found a missing puzzle from your life, which you didn't even know was missing. It’s like every worry you ever had, big or small, is gone. For that split second that the ball touches your hand, nothing else matters. It’s just you, the ball, and the court.

Ken Tilley stated that “School performance is very important. It opens the doors to many opportunities, such as college and better jobs.” This is saying that if you do good in school, then you will do good in your future. Plus, Eddie Griffin stated, ” every year, many talented players miss out on the chance to top-level football because of their failure to meet academic requirements.” This is saying the sport is a privileged because everyone can try out and not make it, but people can’t make it because of their academics. Even, though it can give better chances sports can still be better than so much hard work and school for the kids. Well, even if you think that how would they get to the pros without good grades. If a child has horrible grades, then colleges might not want that on the field to make people have poor influence. But, People can’t take school sports for granted or else they will take life for granted. Then school sports won’t become an enormous

Sports are not for everybody, not only because of talent level, but because a certain mindset is to be had to be successful at any sport. A commitment is made. Forty hours of practice a week, the average amount of time spent practicing for football players, all for a one hour game, the average time of one game of college football, takes dedication. That is not even counting the time spent icing, resting, and studying the playbook or film, not to mention the school work to be kept up with for college and high school students. Most athletes have become used to the grind and juggling three or four time consuming activities all at one time while being successful at each. Waking up at the break of dawn, following a schedule, and suffering consequences when a bad choice is made creates character and discipline that is often needed for many little league, high school, and college athletes. The most important non tangible thing sports teach anyone is how to get back up after falling, how to get knocked down but get right back up and keep going, how to move on from failure and overcome it, focusing on the next important part of life. These skills of determination and courage taught through sports are essential for being successful in any part of life and are hard to come by anywhere

Imagine sitting at the table of Clemson university, Coach Dabo Swinney is explaining the whole offer for you to play football for his school. He lists off a starting spot, and the school paying for a quarter of your tuition as now he states the classes you must take at that school. The thought process would flow through your head. You sign the papers and a month later you are in practice and training gyms working out and working your tail off to be the best in the nation. You work six hours a day, five days a week. A few months later the season ends and it ends in your favor, national champions. Later on, when you are lying in bed it hits you, all that work and all you get is a feeling and a football made of glass. Thinking to yourself should

Football started for me when I was three years old. My best friend’s dad was the defensive coordinator for our local high-school team. Football players were always at his house and we were always watching

For as long as I can remember football has been a part of my life in some way, shape, or form. When I was first born my grandfather said that I was solid and built to play football. I used to throw the football with my mother when I was a toddler and she always told me that when I tried to tackle her I hit really hard. My first organized football experience was when I was five. I had just moved to Manassas, VA from Washington, D.C. in 1994. It was around fall and that was right at the beginning of football season in the area. I remember telling my mother that I wanted to play, so she looked for a local organization for children. She came across the Greater Manassas Football League (GMFL) and that is where I began to play the game I