Why Is Football Games Important To The Community

Football games are a place of excitement, turmoil, and family. The games bring the community together whether the game is good or bad. No matter if their team is the best in the state or the worst everyone in the community comes out to support. Football games have the ability to bring a whole community together for one sole purpose; to cheer on the team. Most people say that the anticipation of the games coming up that night makes their day go by so much faster. For others knowing that the game is only a few short hours makes it feel like forever. For example, when you have a six hour volleyball practice, but knowing that u only have a few hours left till you get to go to the game makes those hours go by so much slower. When you get to the game and find your spot whether it be in the stands or in the girl's reserved spot right by the end zone you know it's almost game time. Someone sings the National Anthem, then it's time for the starting line up. At a home game you get to go on the field with the rest of the girls and make a tunnel for the guys to run thru. For the senior girls you get to hold the banner that you had made during the week, you can feel the
intensity of the guys when they first break thru the paper. Making the girls get even more excited for the game to finally start. As the game goes threw the first half you can see and feel the excitement from everyone around you.
You can hear the parents with tons of opinions, the cameras snapping pictures as the game progresses, and all the the fans cheering until they have no voice left. At half time, when you walk around to go get something from the concession stands or just to stretch your legs yu here the dads talking about how the game is going so far. Also when you are walking you notice things like all the little boys running around behind the stands playing football trying to be just like the older boys that are playing now. You can hear the sounds of the pep band jamming away getting everyone pumped up for the second half, and last, but definitely not least you can smell the green grass and the freshly popped
popcorn. After everyone has gotten back to their spots and the second half has started the intensity of the game picks back up. You can hear the touchdown cheers by the highschool girls, all the the boys on the sidelines cheering on the ones on the field, and hearing one of the coaches yell a ridiculously named plays. As you are watching you lose all track of time, and all of a sudden the fourth quarter is almost over. Everyone cheers louder whether it be they are up by forty points, and they throw all the people that don’t play as much in, or it's a close game with a minute left and all we need is that one touchdown to win. The excitement doesn’t die down until that last second on the final buzzer of the game goes off. After the buzzer goes off, everyone makes their way to the field to talk to the boys and either congratulate them on a win or comfort them on a loss. Once all those things are said and you start walking back to your car it hits you that you now have to wait a week for the next game. That is when the excitement starts over again.