I Love Football Narrative Essay

Was there ever a time you felt you truly discovered your reason for doing something you love? The first time that I discovered that I loved football, was when I was playing football. My whole life I have been told i'm a really tough kid, and at the time I was a soccer player. My sixth grade year playing soccer I started to be more rough when I played. It got to the point where I was nicknamed the bulldozer. I was at the level when kids would start to flop to get the penalty. I then realized that I didn’t want to play a sport where you had to fake being hurt. So the next year I joined the football team my seventh grade year. This was the year that started it all with football for me. Football always came easy for me, I would always watch Sunday and Monday night football when the Cowboys were playing. The physical part took longer to get down but I ended up learning how to use my pads. My coach at the time would say that I am a natural at the Safety
I remember coach saying that we would be the first football team to be playing on the new turf field. So a win was expected of us. I remember it was late in the game no one has scored yet and we were on defense. Coach told me before the game to follow my instincts. So when the ball was snapped i dropped back and kept my eyes on the QB the whole time until he threw it. The reviver did a deep slant my way and the QB overthrew it and the ball came right into my hands. At the moment I didn’t know what to do so I ran as fast as I could. I was so scared of getting hit by this giant 7th grader but i couldn’t run my way out of this situation, and all of a sudden Carson Alford comes out of nowhere and blocked him then I ran it in for a touchdown. I learned that day that football wasn’t just about hitting people as hard as you can. I learned that it was playing for the person next to you so that everyone can be