Personal Narrative: My Passion For Football

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My entire back half of my life has been dedicated to football. I started football when was in fifth grade, I did four years of flag football and several tackle camps. I went to both St. Francis’s and Bellarmine’s football camps twice. Football is my favorite pastime and sport. I believe that football called to me and I want to respond to it. I believe that my passion for football will be integrated into community, pride, and excellence. It will be smoothly accepted and integrated into community because football brings players together and teaches teamwork. My eighth grade year of football, my team worked together like none other before, and we went undefeated and got the league championship. The point is, football brings people together to achieve a common goal. …show more content…
I will help any team I’m on to be the best they can. I will never give up so we can show pride when we a win a game, or win a competition.
Finally, excellence, football will fit nicely into excellence because of the same reason as pride. I will do my best to get to the goal the team sets. My passion for football will keep me up and motivated because I love football, and I promise that if I get into a team, I will make sure that all the other teams have to get ready to go against Saint Francis Football. The other teams will know it’s coming, and they won’t be

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