Essay On Football Is Like Life

A game of football is like life. Football is a very aggressive sport, it can be dangerous at times due to all the tackling, and slamming of bodies on the field. Life can also be dangerous because of all the different obstacles people face everyday and bad things they have to go through. There are many different ways that football and life compare, they have many similarities some in which outweighs their differences. In football there are many things going on, there are goals that need to be scored, there are players that need to block for their teammates, there are also players that need to tackle the other team because they have the ball. In life, there are also goals that have to be set, there are things in life that need to be blocked, and there are also many obstacles in life that need to be tackled. That is just three of the many similarities that life and football share.
One way the game of football is like life is because there are goals that have to be made. In football if there are no goals made then there is no way a team could win or achieve these goals. They need to set goals to win games or to get so many points by the end of the game. They also need to score goals, without them scoring goals football would not really be a game, no one would want to watch them, and they would lose
every game. Like in football in, life there

are also goals that need to be made. Without goals in life, humans would not accomplish anything. Setting goals motivates people to do things, which will allow humans to get things done. “Goal setting is an important method of: Deciding what you want to achieve in your life. Separating what's important from what's irrelevant, or a distraction. Motivating yourself, building your self-confidence, based on successful achievement of goals.“ (Personal Goal Setting). Setting goals in life is a lot like goals in football, if goals are not set then people will not get things done, or there would not be a good game to watch.
Another way football is like life is there are things that need to be blocked or protected. In football, there are players whose only job is to block or protect the quarterback. In life, there are also things that need to be blocked or protected. There are things in life that not everyone needs to know or wants to hear about. These are things people need to block from getting out in the world. There are people in the world who like to use bad things going on in life against the person that is having the bad thing happen to them.
Football is also like life because there are obstacles that have to be tackled. “An act of tackling, as in football; a seizing, grasping, or bringing down” (The Definition of Tackling). In football, the defensive team's goal is to tackle the other team so they cannot score goals. Their job is to bring down the offensive team so they can not run any further. In life, there are also obstacles that need to be tackled. In life bad things happen daily. People have to go through many bad, unfair things. People need to learn how to put these things aside and look forward in life. If people looked forward in life more than they will have a more positive life. They need to know how to tackle the bad things in life or the things that are in their way and move past them.
Some may be thinking this lady is crazy trying to convince other people that football is like life.

Those people might be thinking football is a game, there is no way you can compare the two. They are two totally opposite things, but football is a great thing to compare to life, they have a lot of the same qualities and things that go on. They are both dangerous, they both matter, they both have meanings. People who think football is not like life have obviously not taken the time to think and compare the two topics. If someone was to take the time to compare the two topics they would see the many similarities that they

share.
Some might also be thinking football is something that is way more dangerous than life so it is not possible to compare the two. This is true, but remember that life can also be very dangerous at times. There is always a chance that something bad can happen. Just like in football, in life you have to keep your eye open so you can see the bad thing that is about to happen and you can try to prevent it from happening. Football is like life in many different ways, if people were to sit and think about it there are really many ways to compare the two.
Football compares to life in many different ways. In both, there are many goals that need to be set, there are things that need to be blocked or protected, and there are obstacles that have to be overcome. It is a very dangerous sport, but life is just as dangerous. If people think about all the bad things that could happen to them in one day they would see that life is more dangerous than any football game ever was. That is why it is believed and said that the game of football is like life.