BAM! football season
The sun was still brushing out the mucus from his
eyes as it was about to hit half time and the breeze felt so soothing when it hit my hot sweaty skin, the
parts that shoulder pads, tight pants and a baggy shirt didn’t cover.
It was
our third game and the first two quarters weren’t going as well as I thought they
would. We played like professionals that knew we were going to win. So we didn’t
really put in a day after day, going home with ever muscle in our body aching
and crying out “Please stop! No more. I can’t take any more”. With legs that
wobbled at every step we took, we almost fell when we walked. We smelled like rotten
chicken, mixed with rotten milk that settled in the sun for hours.
But we didn’t. So we got our wining plans shoved down our throats
because every time we tried to run a play. They would stop us in our tracks
with hits that hovered us in the air, and made us glide across the field. We had the taste of defeat and fake
grass in our mouths it tasted awful. It almost looked as if they were on a
mission to fracture rips, and knock off
helmets. Every time we got hit mountains shifted. Once that last whistle was
blown, we went home with grass stains on our faces, and with black, and blue
bruises on our arms and legs. Some even went home with an arm wrapped in white
tape. We had lost that game not only because we misread the other team, but
also we all tried to fight for the M.V. P spotlight.
When we had our first game, our hands were sweaty, and we all had
fear imprinted onto our eyelids. The funny thing about it was that we didn’t
even get on the yellow school bus yet to get to our game. When we had finally
got to our game and observed the new environment, we noticed that there weren’t
any sunbeams, but we saw black clouds forming all around us. They began to cry tears
from their soft and cozy looking eyes. Making it harder to catch the ball and
making our hits more aggressive. Sometimes when we smacked against the other
teams legs, they would get up and start walking with a limp.
Once we stepped foot onto the fake green grass field we knew that
we weren’t going to let all our hard work and efforts at practice go to waste.
So every time we did a play, we depended on the person right next to us or even
right behind us to watch our backs. We depended on each other. The offensive linemen
on my team would hold the defense in place, giving the quarter back a lot of time
to rewind his arm and make a gold pass to the wide receivers. The wide receivers
would move swiftly and smooth, making their route look as easy for a five-year-old
kid could do with no problem. They had smoked who ever was sticking them. Our
defense would penetrate through the line as if it was nothing, tackling their
quarter back. So hard that every time he got hit he had to catch his breath
before he got up. We were unstoppable. We had won that game of course.
The crazy thing was that the team we played in our third game reminded
me of how my team was something like them. For the first time I knew that it wasn’t just me on the field
trying to put forth 100% of my effort into wining this game. It was all of us;
we had worked like a unit. The deep understanding lesson that I had took away
from this experience is that threw out life you
can’t only depend on your self to get things done. Its good to have some help
as you get through it.
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