How Football Changed My Life

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The Game That Changed My Life

An important experience that has made an impact on my life, was playing pop warner football. I remember watching my brother and looking up to him while he excelled in sports, as a kid. Watching him, and hearing stories about how good he was, made me want to fill his shoes and take after him. He was looked up to by many of the kids my age and was well respected by many of the teachers and coaches. I joined football in fifth grade so I could be just like my brother and be looked up to as he was.

In fifth grade, I started my first year of pop warner football. I remember being excited and nervous because I knew I had big shoes to fill. Going into football I knew the coaches the coaches and parents would have high expectations of me due to my brother being so good. Every day of practice got harder and harder, but I knew I could not give up if I wanted to impress people. Day after day, I practiced as hard as I could, hoping to surprise many. …show more content…

The problem with my team was that we did not listen very well or work together. We soon learned that to be successful, we must learn to work together and do what we were told. Our team was not very disciplined and we did not like being told what to do, so listening was not very easy.

The coaches came into practice one day and told us, "you need to work together and play together to win, we needed to be a real team." Coach Christian pulled me and a few others to the side to talk to us.

Jared asked, "what do you need

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