How Football Changed My Life

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Junior year, September 18th 2015, was my first home football game. I had been cheering for three years but this was my first year cheering for Brother Martin. I had cheered for Mount Carmel before but I wanted to cheer at football games. Mount Carmel doesn’t have a football league so I decided to try out for Brother Martin. I had been to Brother Martin football games before and I was always jealous of the cheerleaders, wishing I could be one. My time had finally come; I made the team, I practiced all summer, and now it was time to shine. My parents dropped me off at the tailgate while they went and parked the car. It was very crowded and I wasn’t too sure where to go. The place was full of brother Martin fans. People brought tents and tons …show more content…

The game started at 7:00, but all of the cheerleaders had to be on the field for 6:15 to warm up. There was no one in the stands yet but I was still somewhat nervous for some reason. For the next thirty minutes, we stretched, tumbled, and stunted, making sure we fixed all our mistakes so everything would look perfect for the game. The time went by so fast and all of a sudden the stands were full of crimson and gold, you could barely even see the gray color of the bleachers because there were so many people. Before I could even reach to feel my heart pounding, everyone started running to the field to do the “run out”. All of the girls got on the guy’s shoulders and we made two lines and left room in the middle for the football players to run through. It was extremely humid outside and there were bright lights shining everywhere. When the players were ready they ran through as the band played the fight song. After all of the players got through we got off of each other’s shoulders and sprinted back to the track where we would be cheering. When we got back, I could see a lot of my friends in the stands, they were all waving at me, one even threw a skittle at me. The game soon started, and the first cheer was called. I screamed “Go saders go!” to all of the fans. The fans and students cheered it back. The game went by fast and it was soon halftime. We had ten minutes to talk to all our friends. Sitting in the stands

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