Why Is It Important To Play Football

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Playing football, was one of the best decisions i've ever made. I started football it was in the fourth grade and still have the same dream i’ve had since then (to be in the NFL).

The one thing i’ve learned in football was, hard work and a lot of commitment. I say this because first of all you need to spend a lot of your time into this sport throughout the whole year. As the years go by I realized that football is a lot of hard work if you want to be the best, especially in my high school career of football because it gets way more intense than middle and elementary school. All the training in the offseason lifting, running plays, running sprints, and doing agility drills from the hot summer to the cold days in the winter.

All of the hard work pays off on the field, i learned this because my my freshmen through junior year I made the varsity team, but my junior year was the best so far (still have my senior year to go) because I made first team All Conference and Honorable Mention for All Region.
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As I went through my sophomore season I made sixty seven tackles to end the season. We start our new 2016 season we only won one game but I was a leader on the team and needed the season with eighty six tackles and three interceptions.

Football has helped me become a man. From making me stay in shape, being coachable, and being a leader, which could help me when I'm older. First have a job I need to be able to be able to learn from whom ever will be teaching me at my new job and telling me what to do because I learned this skill at football. When I'm in college football, being a leader could take you a long way in life and on the

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