Ashley Ridge: A Short Story

August 19th, 2016 was the day. The day that i spent virtually 7 years of my life in the weight room and on the field preparing for. The day i was going to play in my first varsity football game. I woke up that morning with one thing on my mind, Ashley Ridge. I had to wake up as the sun was rising to arrive at the elementary school in time to greet the kids. As the season went on that became a game day tradition for me. After i left i was on my way to school. The atmosphere was so thick, so exciting. When i walked in it was almost like one of those 90’s TV shows where the football players were like the most popular guys in school. Everyone kept coming up to me telling me good luck and that they’ll be there tonight even though it was all the …show more content…
Silent. Once we arrived, everyone was ready, up talking to each other and getting dressed. The first group of skill players went out onto the field early to warm up, i was apart of that. All of the TV cameras were out there and the stands were filling by the minute, they was some clouds overhead that had caused us to have to go back to the locker room and the stands to be cleared because of a lightning warning. That happened twice. after that was cleared everybody was ready to play. As we stretched it almost felt like a college game day, i was dripping sweat from adrenaline. After we split into our position groups we headed to the locker room for a speech and to pray.. Once we came back, it was game time our fans and cheerleaders made us a tunnel and the star spangled banner was sung. Our captains came back from the coin toss and told us that defense was up first. Which means… kickoff… my first varsity snap. After i heard that everything was a blur,the tunnel run to the sideline, coach talking, the fans, everything was zoned out. We lined up for the kickoff.. I was the 2nd guy away from the kicker, he teed the ball up and we were