Friday Night Games

but it would of been better having a winning that season. That game I played defense for the second time in a game. I played both ways that game and I thought I was going to die because playing line both ways is hard work and lots of running. I had five tackles that game and that is good for a person who played offense the whole season. I was also the kicker and punter for the team. There was one game where I had the best kicking game ever. My kick offs where averaging 45 yards and I had a…

Friday morning. Alarm clock goes off at 6:30 a.m. Seniors Maya Rigley, Tiger You and Kiana Shirmanesh climb out of bed, ready to face the day. Tedious details await for them to attend to, but they are already too familiar with the weekly cycle for them to mind. It is game day, and the longest day of the week for drums majors has just begun. “Game days are much like normal days,” You said. “I get up at the same time, and go through all six of my classes basically the same.” While it may seem…

My last Friday night under the lights came too soon. I heard the whistle blow for the last time, played my last down, and was given the chance one last time to produce something memorable on the field. It is over now, but my team and I walked away knowing we did everything we could have possibly done. No regrets. Our heads were still held high when we walked off the illuminated field together for the last time. My teammates played their last football game that night but for me another…

December 5 in the championship game. I woke up looking fowler to going to the heat game with Devin Caputo and pastor Victor Carter. So I up at 12:00pm in the afternoon and my mom came and got me from Justin Ray’s house. My mom was coming from a stress reliever spa day. So when I got in the car the first question was did you talk to God and hear from him about which game should go to. Knowing that I am a Normal teenager I lied and said yes he said I should go to the heat game. Right after me…

full effort and commitment with everything that I have done. The most valued experience that I have is football. Football has shaped me into the person I am today and has laid a foundation in which I could build my values on. I started playing the game since I was in grade school. Till this day, the excitement of strapping on my pads and hearing the crack of the helmets has not changed one bit. I am currently on the Holmen High School football team, which is a respectable program that idolizes…

Following six consecutive road games, the Pirates returned home to wrap up non-league play with match ups against Douglas and Siuslaw. On Friday the 16th the boys took on the Douglas Trojans in a tough battle behind a rowdy home crowd. Despite holding a four point lead heading into half, the Pirates ultimately fell with a 52-47 loss. A defensively sluggish third quarter doomed the boys as the Trojans took a five point advantage that they maintained for the rest of the game. Crucial turnovers…

In eighth grade, I managed to tear the labrum in my left shoulder by diving for a ball and jamming the shoulder while landing. Sadly, I had to switch over to golf, but I have never lost my passion for the game. I love baseball because of the history, the statistics, and the memories the game provides me. History is part of the reason why baseball is so special. I can look back at my favorite team, the San Francisco Giants, and see how the team did all the way back in the late 1800’s. In fact…

ways with different views of how they come to be. This can be seen in both Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger and in Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy. Both of these books compare and contrast each other in ideas and principles when it comes to football at different levels. Bissinger and Dungy both examine how football is seen differently by people and how football leads to bigger impacts made in society throughout Friday Night Lights and Quiet Strength. In both respected books the coaches of…

This one day I told him if he could teach me how to play baseball and he said yes, If there was a time of my life that I have to write about it would be when I started to play baseball. The reason why I talk about this period of my life is because it made my life better in many ways. I was only 9 years old when I started getting interested into baseball. The main reason why I got interested in baseball was because a friend called Roberto was always batting balls in the field as far as he…

may not have happened. I suffered with the distaste of my lame karate class that my mother insisted on being trendy. “It’ll be fun...you’ll learn character.” Every kid in the third grade wants that, right? Not exactly. Classes took place on Tuesday nights after school, a smelly, stuffy upstairs space above a gymnastics studio. This was the place where I was when every other normal male that I was friends with was at nothing other than football…