Personal Narrative: Football

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Do you want to know how I grew up from a small town in Iowa to the best football player and coach? When I was about 8 I started playing football. I was the best linebacker in high school and college football. I was the 1st, 1st round pick in the NFL draft. Retired and became the best football coach in history.

When I was a kid, I grew up in Dubuque, Iowa. When I went to elementary school, I started playing football for the Dubuque Colts. I was the class clown in elementary school. I was funny and always made my friends laugh.

I went to Jefferson middle school. When I was there I made a lot of new friends. I was really excited to be the starter in school basketball and school football. Everyone was my friend. Then I found out I had to move when I was in high school.
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I played football and was the best high school player at the time. At one of my football games there where scouts from every college there watching me play. When my game was over they all came up to me and asked me if I wanted to go to their college. But when Kirk Ferentz came up to me and asked if I wanted to play football for the Hawkeyes I said yes.

When I went to college at the University Of Iowa I was really happy because I’ve always wanted to go there. I played football there and I was the best there too. Everybody on the team was my friend. One day after my game I went to give people my autographs and the line was like a mile long. It took 5 hours to give all the people my

autographs. My number was 41. When I was done with college I sold my practice jersey at an auction and it went for 3 million

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