Perspectives on Football

Football

by Eric

     Football is a hard sport to play.  During football games you take some hard hits.  Football is a full contact sport, and a lot of people get hurt playing football.  Football is a sport that you have to be in good shape to play, and I'm not just talking about being strong.

     To be in a game, you have to try hard in practice.  More than just being physically in shape, you have to be mentally in shape.  You have to be able to force yourself to keep going when you think you're going to die.  There are many drills we've done to prove this, but by far the worst is "The Russians are Coming" or "Air Raids."  They're the same thing.  What you have to do in that drill is you're running and the coach blows the whistle and you have to do an army crawl.  The coach throws the ball, and if it hits you you have to do 25 push ups.  Then the coach blows the whistle twice and you're up and running again.

     Those are the thoughts I have on football.