Middle School Football Narrative

Fall in Oxford Michigan is all about high school football. Unless you happen to be in middle school which I was, then it’s about middle school football. I had never had much interest in the sport, didn’t even know half the rules, but Luke had been bugging me to join the football team that year, which was our 8th grade year. Middle school football in our county was divided into Heavy-weight and Light-weight. Heavies are anyone over 130lbs, the Lights are anyone under, and I weighed about 95lbs with sand in my shoes. I would be in Light-weight and Luke was going for Heavy-weight. Even though we wouldn’t be on the same team Luke and I would still practice together half the time so I decided to join. Nowadays I am about average height and pretty skinny. Back then the kindest way to describe me would have been tall and scrawny. So when the guys at my school heard that I was going to join the football team this year I got challenged a bit. It was a bit bothersome so when I learned that I could choose to be on the …show more content…
I had been hoping to watch some others go through first so I didn 't mess up. So I step up and my buddy Luke pushes to the front of the offensive lineman, 'good I 'll at least some good blocking '. Everything is set to go so coach hands me a ball, steps back and blows the whistle. Next thing I know I 'm stepping on Casey 's head and tripping over the goal line. I was surprised, Luke was surprised, and Casey was half unconscious. Coach just said “Huh! Line it up!” So Luke and I lined up again and won again. After another five or so wins coach started picking the pairs we were up against. The best guys on the team. After all he can 't have us get out of running. I can 't remember who knocked us out but we won three more after coach started picking our opponents. We ran the drill for another 20 minutes, I ran again at the end and won a couple and lost after