Touchdown

SW: How did the team play in the Super Bowl? TB: We played extremely well, we held them to a fourteen point deficit until 1:30 left in the game, where they rallied to tie the game. We started at our seventeen yardline, eighty-three yards for a touchdown. Lots of important football figures said we should run the clock out and play in overtime. Regardless, we drove the ball down, and with seventeen seconds left, we stopped the clock. Then, Adam Vinatieri kicked the winning field goal. Super Bowl…

chants to get our team and the crowd fired up. Then, it was kickoff time. My buddy Shawn got the ball on kickoff and ran it back to the 50 yardline. We knew the game was going to be a blow out. It was then that Bryce Thoman ran the ball in for a touchdown. He ran down the field so fast I could feel the wind. Then the bright shiny scoreboard lit up with a score of 7-0 after the extra point.…

The bright sun was beating down on my face as I squinted to see the score. 9-9 with a minute left in the game. I was wearing my low cut tank top with a number sixty-six on the back and my black kilt with a Bethel Park hawk on the lower right. My white cleats were stained from the freshly cut grass and I had a bruise on my right knee from falling down. I looked through the grey metal cage of my face mask and bit down on my mouthguard determined to win the game. Being the oldest person on a team…

stiffens if drops continue to plague our offense, but our young guys have stepped up and will continue to develop and get better. Cam Newton has put this team on his back early on this season with his arm and his legs. He already has nine total touchdowns and just two interceptions both of which were not his fault. It's been really fun to watch him lead this offense; my favorite part about what he's done this far is his footwork has been a lot better. When he has bad stretches he has a…

It smells like fresh raindrops, and the fragrance of newborn grass in spring on the field in Vancouver, Canada. There are lots of parents and teachers sitting around the field to watch the game. It seems like a good day to kick off practice for the powder puff game. It’s definitely a big day for me. Having a powder puff game is a great tradition at our school, it is a touch football game between upperclassmen and lowerclassmen. All players in our team are 12 years old, representing the…

The timer ticks down one second at a time. Your parents and coach are paused in anticipation on the sidelines as adrenaline rushes through your veins. This moment is one that many students and children dream about and practice every day for. Competitive sports are an integral part of everyone’s childhood. Many people are now trying to take these moments away from children. Competitive sports should definitely be encouraged in schools. They encourage fitness in children, provide a friendly…

engaging in a masculine activity such as football” (Lind, 2004.) Conti uses a study by Halberstam from 1998 to explain the different variations of females presenting themselves in gender identities not norm to the public. These “alternate masculinities range from tomboys to drag kings,” he explains (Lind, 2004.) He uses this explanation to show that assertions of masculinity does not solely belong to men and can be legitimately experienced by all sexes. “This is something even the most liberal…

The Who Dat Nation is loyal. Almost to a fault. Most Saints fans are still nostalgic about the Saints 2009 season and the 2010 Super Bowl Championship. Fast forward seven years and the Saints' fortunes under Sean Payton are less than stellar. In the last three seasons, Sean Payton's winning record as the New Orleans Saints Head Coach is poor. He has guided the Saints to only 19 wins out of 45 games, a 42% winning percentage. Failing grades and failed coaching. The failures of the…

Tren’Shun grew up and went to school all through pre-k to elementary school. When he was in the 5th grade he broke his leg playing little league football. He was out for a year and luckily he could come back his 7th grade year and return to football but he would be playing with a plate in his leg. It was a new challenge for him being different from all the other players with something inside his leg. Tren’Shun watched football the whole time he was recovering from the injury and he knew…

High school is an enthralling adventure. For one, it is time for one to start thinking about their future and what they want to do with their life. Thanks to a news-writing class during my sophomore year, I was able to get an idea. Thanks to the past two football seasons, I was able to get an assurance. During that aforementioned news-writing class, I started to become a more regular contributor to news stories for Mayfield High School’s student newspaper, The Paw Print. By the start of my…