Football has been a huge
impact on my life. Playing football at my house is a time of having fun, and
also a time of bonding with family. The reason that playing football is a
bonding time is because we get together and work as a team. It doesn’t matter
who wins; we just like to have fun. I love playing football outside with
friends and family. It’s one of the things that we all like to do. When playing
football with everyone, we get closer by the team work. If someone makes a
fantastic play, there is excitement for this person.
On Thanksgiving Day, the weather was almost perfect. It
was just warm enough to be wearing shorts and a shirt. Family and cousins were
over my house. That day was a day to play football. All the boys gathered up
and talked. My brother announced, “We should play football right now.”, so we
headed outside to the front yard. Then, we decided that Tyler, my brother, and
Josh, my oldest cousin, would be the team captains. I got on Tyler’s team; the
one that would most likely win.
Then, it was time to start the game. The kick was off and
on the way. “Let me get this one.” I yelled. I caught the ball and took off; I
nearly got into the end zone. After the play was over, my teammates cheered
loudly for me. Two plays after that Tyler had a diving catch into the end zone.
The catch was unbelievable. We all circled around Tyler and celebrated the
touchdown catch.
Next
it was our turn to kick off, Uncle Teddy said, “It’s my turn now.” My whole team laughed in amusement. When we
kicked off, Uncle Teddy got maybe five yards and that’s it. We held them there
until fourth down. They went for it on fourth down. As soon as the play began,
the quarterback threw a screen pass, and he ran it all the way for a touchdown.
They were jumping in excitement. When they kicked it off, Tyler took it to the
middle of the field. On third down the quarterback threw the ball to me, and I
caught it one handed. I was surprised that I caught the ball.
“Food
is ready everyone!” Mom yelled out the door. We all came running inside to eat
dinner. We all ate a bunch of food and were stuffed afterwards. That
Thanksgiving was one of my favorite Thanksgivings I’ve had.
Tyler
and I were watching the Arkansas Razorbacks football on TV in the living room.
There was excitement going on from the football game. Both of us could not keep
our eyes off the screen as the game went on. We both decided that we wanted to
play football right then. “Hey I have an idea; we should put pillows down and
play.” Tyler explained. So, we put pillows on the floor in between the couch
and other chairs in the living room. To me this was a wonderful idea, because
we wouldn’t hurt ourselves hitting the floor. I ran to get the football so we
could start playing. We didn’t want to play football while the game was on, so
we only played during commercials.
At
the beginning of the game, I got the ball first. Since we were inside, Tyler
threw the football instead of kicking it. When I got the ball, I ran. Tyler
came straight towards me, and he tackled me into the ground. But the fall didn’t
hurt because of the pillows. Even though I only gained a little yardage, I was
happy, because I couldn’t get hurt from it. On the first play of the drive, I
ran with the ball and almost got into the end zone. I got so far because I tried to run left of
the couch. But I cut back the other way, and Tyler could only get my one leg. So
I fell and reached out, but I was still short of the goal line. Just shortly
after that, the game came back on, and Tyler said quickly, “The game is back
on, let’s take a break and watch it.” Arkansas had the ball on their own twenty
yard line. On the second play of the drive, the quarterback threw it all the
way down the field. The receiver caught
it and ran it in for a touchdown. Tyler and I were cheering loudly with joy.
One
day I wanted to play football, so I gathered a bunch of friends to come over my
house and play football. Usually when we play at my house, we play in the front
yard, but that time I decided to play in the back yard. It was a perfect day
for football, in my opinion.
Jackson
and I were captains. I picked all the best players to be on my team, so I
figured that would smoke them. But in the first ten minutes of the game, nobody
was catching a pass on either side. Then, the other team scored a long
touchdown pass on us. I stated that it
was time we scored. The next drive only took us two plays to score. Which on
the touchdown catch, I was the one who caught the pass in the corner of the end
zone. At the end of the game, we won ten
touchdowns to six touchdowns. That day
of playing football was the most exciting time; because the game was intense at
first then we whooped them in the end.
