Personal Narrative: My First Football Game Under Lights

Our first football game under lights took place at the Hayward youth football field. It was a very intense game against our rivals. We called it the rivalry game, because they are our rivals. The reason they are our rivals is because they have beat us in the championships prior to the year of this year’s 2016 summer season. When we got to the field, we watched the younger kids play before us. Their specific name are the white knights, or peewee level division. Their age groups are from 10 to 11 years of old, so that means that they are the smaller age group. The white knights are very small, yet they can pack a punch. I saw many good runs on offense, then I also saw many good blocks and defense . About 10 minutes into the white knights halftime, it …show more content…
Before we started, our team captains went up to do a coin toss to determine who was going to start out the game. Unfortunately, we lost the coin toss. But their team captain has chosen to let us start the game as kickoff. So when we did kickoff, we started off the game. When we kicked off, we kicked to 60 yards. They ran it in into about the 50 yard line, a good starting place for us and them. On their first run, they lost about 3 yards. My teammate got a sack on the first play. We started out strong so that we could set the tone. When we set the tone out early, they know that we are ready to come out to the gridiron. After the game was over, it turned out that we lost. We still played our hearts out and left it all on the field. After the game we have decided to go celebrate at Mountain Mikes. When we arrived, we were all bummed out that we have lost. We returned the next tuesday and practiced very hard on our mistakes and flaws. We have viewed our tape of the game to see why our mistakes were made and what penalties have happened. After we watched all our flaws, we ran some plays then got in some reps for our offense and