How Football Changed My Life Essay

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IT’s amazing how playing one sport can change where mind about going to college. It all started as a normal day, I was outside playing when my friend came came out of nowhere and forced me to got tell my mom to take us to the middle school to join football. At first I thought about it and said I might not join because I never played in a school team before. And I still went but we got there late because I just told me mom and she was making food so we waited and we were late.
When we got there we were 3 minutes late. We started to go down the hall where we were supposed to meet we told only hear the long deep voice of Mr.T. Last was nervous but when we sat down we didn’t get in trouble. We listened to him talk about what they were going do to make us stronger and better in football. After a couple of days of practice I got use to running and warming up for drills. When our first game came, our whole team was excited. Also I was excited because I would have been one of the first people to hit someone. When I was in the line I thought I would have trouble to hit him down to the ground. But when i went in for the hit I was surprised how easy it was to hit to the ground. Also I can see that he was having trouble to hit me to the ground. I was happy that i was stronger the my opponent and that he was scared the i can hurt
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Finally I was able to hit the running back almost all the play that I was on the line for defensive. It was difficult to be able to do that but my coaches helped me a lot to get faster, stronger and smart to get the right tackle. And it was because of them I wouldn’t be able to be that good. Then I thought about how much fun I had and that i wouldn’t be able to play forever. Then I thought about college and that it would give me 4 more years to play. I stop though because I need to keep me thoughts on football and practice because our last game was

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