Narrative Essay About My First Game

The game. The first game of the year. My first game,as a player, as a high schooler. So I knew, for better or worse, it was going to be special. My team and I have been practicing together for the past 4 months. We were all ready to compete. But for us to be able to compete, we needed to be able all individually be able to perform our best at our given positions. And for me that would being able to catch the ball, by all means necessary. But considering it was my first game, there was doubt that I could do it, from my coaches, to my teammates, and even from me.

The game was scheduled for 9 am, at Roxbury High School. Yet being players we had to be there by 7:30 to prepare, and catch the bus to Roxbury. I woke up by six, without …show more content…
No motion, no conversation, and not even an order. All you could sense where the nerves, which were so strong it was all you could hear, feel, taste, and smell. It affected the was were interacted with one another. We were usually jumping around, greeting one another, while we all were yelling, even if there was nothing to talk about. But today was not just different, but polar opposite of our regular behavior. All we could do was put on our gear, helmet and all, in silence, and marched out to the field. The other team was already on the field. And this is where something clicked for us. We saw this other team comfortable on our own home turf. Yet we were the ones nervous. This is where we regained our fire. We ran on to our half of the field. The did our stretches, and came in for the all important morristown jumping jacks. Morristown jumping jacks are an exercise that, as a team, we do jumping jacks, and with every jumping jack, we say a letter or morristown, until we have fully spelled out Morristown. Then the second we get to that last etter. We run towards the center clapping. This is when we finally felt like we were okay. That whether we win or lose, that we will be able to handle this setting again. Then the fun began. My highlight of the day, my first catch of my football …show more content…
And I was off. I took 3 steps to cover 3 yards. And on the 3rd step, I faked leftwards, and then ran to the right on the 4th step. Then suddenly. Everything slowed down I saw jackson release the ball, and it was going for slightly in front of me. So I ran so quickly, and the rest came naturally. The ball almost felt as if it had came and formed to my hands. Almost as if I had done this a million times. The ball rested into my arms, and I began to ran towards our endzone. I may have been tackled, but I was not just able to get a first down for my team, but I completed the first pass of the freshmen season, and had a 20 yard completion. Which was all the amazing productions of this one