High school football

fans, announcers checking mics, slight chill in the air. The Burlington Edison High School football team runs onto the field. My cheer team and I prepare for a stunt as we are pumping up the crowd. Moments later I am thrown into the air, staring into the crowds. The next thing I remember was waking up, it’s a new day, and I am in a hospital bed. My eyes were blurry and my head was pounding. That night at the football game I was dropped on my head, learning to find I suffered a traumatic brain…

entered Harding Stadium on November 4, 2011, I could feel the electricity in the air. Friday Night Lights in the state of Ohio, one of the biggest high school football states in the country. Round 1 of the OHSAA Division III playoffs. Two crosstown rivals playing in one of the most anticipated games in recent memory. The 8-2 Indian Creek Redskins, the school I had gone to my entire life, taking on the Steubenville Big Red, the 10-0, #1 ranked team in the state. “Death Valley” typically…

Is football too dangerous to be played in high school? Around 95 percent of people say football is a dangerous sport to be played in high school. There are many injuries reported while playing the sport of football. “Football, one of the most popular sports in the United States, is also the leading cause of sports-related injuries” (Nationwide Children’s Hospital 22). The sport of football is a fantastic sport to play, but players, coaches, and parents have to realize football will lead to…

and more high school injuries are occuring from football. Take Andre Smith (17) for example. He was hit hard on the last play of an October 22 game against Chicago Vocational High School and died of a traumatic head injury. Tyrell Cameron (16) died after his neck was broken on a punt return. Evan Murray (16) died of a lacerated spleen. Last year 11 players died from on field injuries. (Tribune) This is a common occurrence in football and this is why football should be banned from high schools. …

I have always lived in Carthage, TX a town full of old rich people and stuck up pricks that only care about football. Now I can’t lie I care about football a lot but I don’t want it to be my career. It wasn’t easy growing up my dad wasn’t around hardly at all, and my mom and I just don’t really get along much so I lived with my grandparents. It was tough but my grandparents are the greatest people on earth so it made it easier. One day my dad came home and took me out to eat and while he was…

A blackberry moment of mine was when the Elkhorn Area High School Varsity Football Team won the game against Delavan-Darien High School - the biggest rivalry in Southeast Wisconsin. Just talking about it puts a smile on anyone’s face that was at that game. This rivalry dates back to 1995 and has such high tension that the whole state knows about it. It was my freshman year of high school and I had not experienced the rivalry before but the upperclassman did a great job introducing it to us…

I’m going to write about my first half of my freshman year of high school football. I was really good in 7th and 8th grade and I tried to push myself really hard to be as good as a high school varsity player and get a starting position. But I wasn’t good enough. I broke my ankle my last second from last game in 8th grade running the ball and got tackled and fell hard on it breaking my tibia and fracturing my fibula and tearing all the ligaments in between. I had surgery on it. They placed a…

I can still remember the numbness that flooded my body after I took my last glance at that scoreboard for the rest of my life. I never thought the day would come where I would walk off that football field for the last time. That Friday night my high school, Kenowa Hills, was facing Mona Shores. This was the very last game of the season. Mona Shores was ranked number two in the state and reporters were already projecting us to lose. All season we anticipated this game. Although some feared it,…

I showed my talents on Monday nights instead of Friday nights. My freshman year of highschool I was part of my school's junior varsity football team. I waiting for the moment I could go out and perform under the Friday night lights. Monday games were never what you’d hope for when playing football. The game started at around 6, so the sun was almost always going to blind you when facing West. The crowd usually consisted of everyone's parents and a few of your teammates younger siblings, so the…

High school had been his private hell and now with the drama at home, life in general had become intolerable. The one thing he was thankful for was football. Being on defense, he was blessed with the ability to hit people on a regular basis. There was only one thing he disliked about football, although defense is critical in winning games, the defense was not as appreciated as the quarterback that could do no wrong. Trevor Lawrence, the bane of Alexander's existence, haunted him throughout…