Personal Narrative Essay: How Clemon Changed My Life

It was a cold New Years Eve day and Clemson was about to play Ohio State for their chance to claim the fiesta bowl title and also to be able to go back to the college football national championship. I went over to my cousins with my family because we were having a new years party but I really wanted to be by myself because I am a really avid Clemson fan. Kick off was at 7 o’clock pm so I was in the living room ready for the game to begin. The game began and I didn’t leave the couch until halftime and the score was 17-0 Clemson so I was very happy but I still had that nervous feel because the game wasn’t over yet. I got off the couch to get something to eat and came back in and sat down then the game came back on. The game ended around 11 and Clemson won the game with a whopping score of 31-0 and the tigers are headed back to the College Football
Playoff National Championship.
Today is Monday January 9th at 8:00pm the Clemson Tigers and the Alabama crimson tide fight each other for the 2nd straight year. Alabama was projected to beat the tigers by 13.5 points and I thought it was to much because I believed that we were better than that. I had been nervous all day on that Monday because I really wanted Clemson to win and all my friends were talking crap because they said that Clemson couldn’t beat Alabama. Well the show down was about to happen I was watching the pre-game and eating supper. I was so concerned I couldn’t eat much because I wanted Clemson to be champions. The game started and Clemson held them to a fast 3 and out! Clemson gets the ball for the first time in the game. Wayne Gallman ran through the defense for an eleven-yard gain. After that the high-powered offense of the Clemson tigers couldn’t do anything against the strong defense of the crimson tide. Clemson punts the ball and pins the tide inside the 10.
Alabama went down the field and scored a touchdown behind the running back Bo Scarbough. In the middle of the second quarter the Alabama crimson tide was holding on to a close lead of 14-7. So the game went to halftime at a score of 14-7 Alabama I was sitting in the recliner all alone everybody else in the house was asleep and I was nervous and scared because I didn’t want Clemson to lose two national championships in a row to the same team. Clemson received the ball in the second half of the game but they turned the ball over off a Wayne Gallman fumble. Clemson’s defense held them to a field goal, which was a win for us because I believe if they would’ve scored a touchdown that the game would have a different outcome. Clemson got the ball back and marched down the field and scored to make it 17-14 Alabama. Clemson stops Alabama and they have to punt the ball. Clemson gets the ball back and they are stopped trying to complete a third down conversion, Watson was stopped short of the line. So Clemson is forced to punt the ball away again Alabama wasn’t letting up they were running it down Clemson’s throat and it was working. Clemson couldn’t stop Bo Scarbough but with about two minutes left in the third quarter he was injured. We didn’t know what kind of injury it was till later but it ended up being a broken leg. The tigers gave up a touchdown on the next play because of a busted coverage on defense. I was so flabbergasted after that play because it happened so much last year. There was one quarter left to play in the game and Clemson was down by ten. The good thing is Clemson got the ball back and they scored Watson had a touchdown throw to Williams on second down and goal. I was so exhilarated when they scored cause I thought we have a good chance to take the lead if we can stop them and that’s exactly what we did. We marched down the field and scored and we took the lead from Alabama for the first time of the night. After we scored to take the lead there was only five and a half minutes left in the game I was nervous and excited at the same time because I knew if we stopped them we would win but we could also lose it too. Clemson sacked there quarter back and made it third down and sixteen yards to go and he has to scramble I thought we would make him throw the ball away but he threw it to his receiver who caught it and made it fourth down and one. They had to go for it because there was only four minutes left in the game and they ran it up the middle and made it and my heart dropped to the floor. They did a trick play that nobody was expecting and it caught Clemson off guard and they moved up to the thirty-yard line. The very next play their quarterback scrambled for a thirty-yard touchdown and I was so flabbergasted because I thought that it was over and we wouldn’t be able to score in two minutes. Alabama kicked off and fuller caught it and ran it back up to the thirty-eight yard line where he was tripped up. Clemson’s record breaking quarterback took the field with a chance to do what no other person has ever done before and that is leading a game winning drive against Nick Saban’s Alabama crimson Tide. Watson took the snap and threw the ball up to his receiver Mike Williams who made a spectacular catch to put Clemson on the forty yard-line. Then on the very next play he threw a back shoulder fade to tight end Jordan Leggett and Clemson was down to the ten yard-line. There was ten seconds to go and Watson threw it up to Williams was interfered with which put us on the two yard-line. Then the play of the century that shocked the world. Watson took the snap rolled out to the right threw it into the hands of Hunter Renfrow who made the catch that put Clemson on top for the first time in thirty-five years. I was so flabbergasted I just hit the floor and busted out in tears because I was so astonished.