...I walked into my high school for the last time and excitement filled up inside me. I was going off to college soon and I no longer had to be in this building, surrounded by labels. Yes, things have gotten better since the last rumble, but I never said the labels went away. We were still the hoods and they were still stuck up socs. The fighting kinda just stopped. I'm a senior now and looking back at my freshman year, a lot has changed. There hasn't been a rumble since the night Johnny and Dally died and if i'm being honest, the real reason for that was because everyone was tired of fighting. Tired of the hatred. Tired of it all. No one ever won anything in rumbles, and they just remind me of all that we lost that night. I'm graduating high school with a B average and those grades got me into Florida State University. When I got a letter from the college saying they accept me, I almost peed my pants I was so happy. Soda had left for Florida two years ago to marry Sandy and they had a little boy last year named Max. Their house is right by the school so i'm going to be living with them for a while until I can afford to get a place of my own....
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...always played a large part in my life. My father coached my sister and I throughout our childhood and well into our teenage years. After constant exposure to football and basketball through television, I decided to tackle those challenges as well. Unfortunately, there is far less coverage of soccer than other athletics in the media, therefore, joining a team never crossed my mind. It was not until a friend recommended me to join his team when I was about 14 years old, did I consider the sport. I quickly fell in love with the strategic and strenuous sport. As expected when trying something new for the first time, I was atrocious. Every other teammate was approaching a decade of practicing and playing soccer, compared to my few moments, which was reflected in the team’s tryouts. For reason I do not understand, the head coach saw potential in me and I was accepted onto the team...
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...Passion is a strong and barely controllable emotion, towards something. Passion is an emotion that drives me or almost anybody in this world. Passion is something that helps you achieve your goals or to be someone in your life. My passion is football. Football passionate me to push myself harder, be who I am, and have encouraging people around me to hold my back whenever I fall or anything happens to me. Football is a way to blow my steam, and this may be the only sport where you can express yourself physically and mentally. Football to me is a way to break all the barriers. Football pushes me and challenges me to not only do better, but be a good athlete, and a good student, and to me, the good thing about football is, if you lack...
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...How Football Changed Me “Boom, pow, crack”. These are the sounds made every weekday in August to October, whether it is 85 and sunny or 65 and raining on the football practice field. Players hit each other, while practicing our offensive plays until perfection and running sprints for what feels like hours on end. Best of all are the smells of hard work the rest of the team have put in, measured by the raunchy body odors they left behind. All of this hard work is done for the sweet taste victory every Friday night. Although there is so much more to football than wins and losses, or touchdowns and tackles. Football changes lives in so many amazing ways, something it has personally done to me. My love for football began at an extremely young...
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...Football and society I am writing this blog in order to highlight the effects football has had on society and how society has changed or influenced football in a particular way. I have been a football fan for as long as I remember and it has been a huge part of my life. It has affected the way in which I think and also my physical health. If I was asked when I was young what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would give the same answer as the majority of my peers, which was to be a professional football player, playing for my favourite team. Which I’m sure made my father gravely disappointed as he would have imagined a completely different path for me, He would have liked me to be a professional footballer playing for his favourite team. The reason I say ‘Completely different path’ isn’t just an attempt to be humorous it is an indication as to how seriously some football fans take the game. Calling it a game in fact would almost be blasphemous to some who see it as more of a way of life. Opposing sides are no longer commonly referred to as competitors they are known as your Rivals, implying they are your enemy. Even in the lowest tiers of Football, where your average working person plays, the game has been taken so seriously that people have been badly injured through ‘off the field’ violence, Parents and supporters can be seen hurling obscene abuse at children and even members of the clubs partaking can be witnessed behaving in such a manner that they either have to be sent...
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...Football In Soicety – How does football make you feel? Football makes me feel like I am on top off the world. Everything about this beautiful game gives me a good feeling. If it’s playing the game or even if it’s watching the game. Playing the game is what I have always loved doing because I love the sport so much. From being a young boy kicking a ball around the playing fields too now playing in competive matches weeks in and weeks out. When I am playing the game I get a real buzz from it. Their is no better feeling in the world whenever you score a goal in a match. From the moment the ball leaves your feet and travels into the net. It could complete your day and make you feel so happy. Playing football always gives you something too look forward too. You always want too no when the next match is our when the next training session is. This gives you a good feel off exictment. The best way I enjoy football is having a kick about with your mates in a soical area. As we did in class last Monday whenever the whole class traveled to Bedford Park too have a kick about. Wakening up in the morning knowing you had a kick about with a bunch off lads instead off having to go to a lecture brightens up your morning, this makes you feel good. During the game when you are playing you have a huge smile on your face and its all about having so much fun. It makes you feel great. However, football can also make you feel angry and can be upsetting. Playing a competive game off football at the...
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...skills of the coach and the effectiveness of how he recruits outweighs the bells and whistles that come with the new technology. Kids still prefer coaches who have meaningful conversations with them face to face rather than creating them cool edits and messaging them on social media. After all this research and the different data points, I have uncovered I believe the bottom line of recruiting comes down to the success of the coach and the pedigree of the program. With my own opinion, I do not believe that you can buy yourself a championship through recruiting. There is no denying that recruiting is extremely important to the success of a football program but I do not believe it correlates to the astronomical amount...
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...My whole life I’ve been playing football and also watching football. To me football has been the best thing that has happened to my life. I love it so much, just how the game works with all the pieces that come together. Playing football gives you a better understanding of the game. I’ve played football for 8 years, throughout those years; my knowledge of the game has increased so much. Playing the sport really helps you compare yourself to them and gives you a better understanding on why penalties happen. Now in recent years football has taken a big turn in player safety. I feel that player safety is important but still is ruining the game. The public affected it big time. There are many rules of what you can and can’t do. Some are; tackling with the helmet, tackling a quarterback below the waist, and moving the kickoff to the 35 yard line. In all the penalties that have changed professional football, I know this has the biggest impact out of all of them. What this penalty is, when tackling the person with the ball you’re not allowed to lean with your helmet, also with that rule you cannot explode from your feet when tackling them too. Throughout my football career, I played safety, which this penalty aims towards at. The safety is the furthest person away from the quarterback and the main threat to the passing game and then run second. If you watch football, you can see that it is unfair to them, because when being taught to tackle, we are taught to drive thru with our hips...
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...Life as an African American and Caucasian male can be challenging, even in today’s society. All throughout my life I have had people criticize, as well as look at me differently, when people find out that I am black. Some of my so-called friends, stopped hanging out with me after I told them I was part African American, which really hurt my feelings. People look at me with a dirty look when I’m out with my mother or my father because I’m either too white for my father to be my father or I’m too black for my mother to be my mother. A lot of this criticism comes from different areas I have lived throughout my whole childhood. I have lived in multiple neighborhoods where my race prevented me from fitting in as well as having friends. When I was...
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...down, my team was marching down the field with a purpose. Across the gridiron was our rival team, Mayfield, who we had beat the previous year in the state championship game. It was a cold November night and the stage was set, playing on their home field, “The Field of Dreams,” in Las Cruses, New Mexico in the semi-finals of the state tournament. Up 14-0, we had the ball and were trying to score before going into halftime. I was handed the ball for a running play and then it happened. Falling to the ground as if I had been shot, I had completely torn my hamstring. I was in complete shock as I lay on the ground. As the pain set in, a million thoughts were running through my head. It was my senior year, my last hurrah, and possibly the last time I would ever play football. It was at this moment that I realized I had no idea about my future and where I was going with my life. Sitting on the sidelines while I watched my team lose was one of the hardest experiences I have ever had to endure. I was helpless, and utterly disappointed that this is how my football career would end. The simplest of questions lack the simplest of answers as I asked myself, “Now what?” Up until this point in my life, it had all been so simple, go to school and play football. It was this simplicity that seemed to have hypnotized me into thinking life would continue on like this forever. But, in an instant everything changed and I realized I had no idea what I was going to do. I was as helpless in my life as I...
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...Everyone has a dream for when they grow up. Different people have different goal in life. Some people have people they look up to and want to be just like them. You can set those goal and reach them if you work hard enough. When I grow up, I want to go to the NFL. I have this dream because I have a passion for the sport of football. Football to me is more than a sport. This sport is something I grew up with and it will always be a part of my life. In football, there are so many people that are looked up to because of how good they are as a player. Some of these players will start their own donation organizations to help people that need it. Brett Farve is one of man that come to my mind when I think about this. Farve is trying to make the NFL realize that concussions are changing lives. Concussions can cause brain damage and have a big impact on your own life. If people were to realize that concussions are causing many life changing problems, then the parents that have a child in football may want them to stop playing....
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...More than Just a Game People often consider football as just a game or sport, but to others it’s not just a game or sport. Football has changed my life in many different ways. For the first time in my life, I was able to understand the concepts of life when joined the Independence High Football Team. It showed how I use to be an outsider to actually feeling part of something. I now have a totally different outlook on life. When I enrolled into Independence High School I would considered myself as an outsider or a trouble maker. I was always getting into trouble every time I look up. The teachers at school couldn’t understand why I caused so much trouble. It wasn’t like I use to associate with a lot of people, so they knew it wasn’t just to impress friends or be a class clown. I made the honor roll every six weeks, so they knew I was an intelligent young man, but for some strange reason I was always getting into trouble. The last incident that I got into was a fight in the bathroom. The principal’s secretary didn’t know what else to do with me so they wanted to kick me out of school. When they walked back into the office they told me that a woman name Mrs. Stewart vouched for me and insisted that we keep you in school as long as you remain out of trouble and maintained a 2.0 G.P.A. My first thought was why would my English teacher Mrs. Stewart vouch for me if all I did was cause trouble in her class? When I went to her class the next day I asked her, “Why did you vouch for me...
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...when I was young, I find that many of my influences come from my closest family members. I was starting pre-school when I first started listening to how people around me were talking. I would listen to my mother and father talk on the phone or to each other and found myself starting to adopt their special language. My sister is six years older than me. Naturally children will look up to their older siblings. I, like many others, would copy exactly what my sister would do. She would say “crap” or “gosh” and sure enough I was running around using the word in complete wrong context. My mother and father were somewhat strict with how my two siblings and I talked. When I was running around yelling words that we weren’t supposed to say, it was almost a routine for me to get in trouble and eventually end up tattling on my sister. My original language came from my family, yet unlike others many slang words were absence from it. I find that many of my most strict proper...
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...Football Football is one of the coolest sports in my opinion, because i love to hit people and catch the football. I have been playing this sport since i was a little kid and every time i get on that field i always get a rush. I always get pumped up and ready to play one of the greatest sports out there, and I strive to give it my all the whole game. For this sport it takes a lot to compete, in this game you have to be really tough because you will have guys gunning at you all night wanting to take your head off and make sure you don't get back up. Football takes mental fitness to play this game also. If you play on the offencive side of the ball this is tested every game, because you have to know who your blocking and know where the play is going and you have to know what route to run if you are a wide receiver. If you are a wide receiver you have to know the snap count and make sure you don't jump and then you get a 15 yard penalty for jumping and your coaches will not be happy....
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...Eric Legrand, author and main character of “Believe: My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life” moves readers with his inspirational thoughts in this book. He goes through each of the events in his life while giving a positive insight about it. In his autobiography, Eric Legrand speaks about how he stayed strong after enduring a severe life threatening football injury by the support he had from family and friends while other people with similar problems and disabilities did not have the support he did. His experience really encourages the readers to change their outlook on life and how they shouldn’t take things for granted. This is truly an inspirational story for people all around the world. Eric Legrand had his entire life dedicated to sports, but most importantly football....
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