Personal Essay: The Importance Of Family In A Football Team

Importance of family
When I was in the sixth grade I was playing football for a scout’s team that I was on. We were on the road playing a much hated Greybull football team. We were wanted to secure an unbelievable season with an undefeated record 9-0. There was only one problem, we had to fight Greybull to cap off our perfect season with a record of 10-0.
It was 2nd down and we were on our side of the field and we were on defense. Our defense was really good, our defensive line was bigger than their offensive line. Our defense were destroying their offense. But they still managed to get a couple of scores on us, we were not the happiest campers. We lead by a couple of scores me and my buddy Dylon were fighting each other to see who can get the most sacks of the game. Well it was second down and on our side of the field, when I busted through their o line, I jumped over their running back that was trying to block me.
I woke up with our teams medics staring into my eyes, I couldn’t hear them talking all I could see were there lips

moving as if they were talking. I then realized that something had happened because I normally don’t get this kind of attention. As I laid there freezing I got my sense of hearing back and they were asking what hurt and I said my neck. I could not move neck. The thought of me breaking my neck seemed surreal to me because I was just up and playing a game, but it did happen.
They were asking me if any of my family members were there, but sadly they weren’t. But then a longtime family friend who was watching the game came running onto the field and she took care of me as if I was hers. I was lifted into the ambulance and token to the hospital that in between Greybull and Basin. I asked if the game was over and they said “son you won’t be playing in the game because you have fractured your neck, you’re really lucky you didn’t break it.” They showed me my x-rays, and being a young boy I thought they were cool because I never saw a x-ray of any kind and I was on some stuff to take the pain away.
My grandparents showed up and they got the scoop from the doctor of what had happened and they said that I fit were to happen again I would most likely have to quit football.

It wasn’t till that day when I realized that I needed my family and really close friends to take care me because after that I saw that even a close family friend can be considered your family through thick and thin. We ended up winning the game to cap off our perfect season, we went on to win our conference for middle school football with the same band of brothers who I played football with. To me they will always be my brothers because I know that we have got each other’s backs through anything.
To close this awesome essay you don’t need actual family members to be counted as family members even someone that is a family friend can be considered your family. And that playing a sport you as an individual can form a brotherly bond that stays together as a

team.