Importance Of Football In My Life

Imagine waking up in an ambulance with no feeling in your legs and people screaming “ARE YOU OKAY”, when the last thing you remember was taking a handoff from the quarterback and running through a lane and players coming at you in almost slow motion. This is a part of my football story and how football forever has changed my life in daily aspects. From growing up my whole life playing football with my friends to recreational football for kids then High school football. After my football career, including rec and high school, I still continue to keep up with college football, and Professional Football every day of my life. I don’t think it would be possible to talk about how I and a simple football could relate without saying how it developed me as a person and a character in life. Playing football with my friends during recess in elementary school was one of my favorite highlights of my life so far. We would pick teams and I would never go first, but I’d always be closer to the front if not in the middle of the picks. This was not a big deal to me as a child, but as I grew up later in life I always wanted to be that kid that was known as the “Number one Pick”, the person everyone would fight for first and that was what drove me to play rec football in middle school. In Rec we would be able to play different teams from different locations and the best part was your friends were on your team and you …show more content…
My coaches also taught me
Many traits like family and school always come before football, no matter what and this is extremely important to me and what I stand for and how I’m looked on from my peers. I’ll remember these moment and friends for the rest of my life and I’m thankful for the chances I got. Also the adversity I faced from my coaches and my injuries which helped fuel me to be the athlete I wanted to