Sep. 15, 2007 last nights game
Our team of first year players have broken a two year losing streak. I'll start at last Monday we met at the school to Go over a video of last weeks game which we lost horribly. At the end of the video session coach told us that our starting center left the team. I know there are a few people who read my blog that don't know anything about football so I will explain what a center does. A center is the core of the offence (the team that has the ball.) The center hands the ball to the quarterback who then hands the ball to the running backs or throws to the wide receiver. Well guess who got to fill his position.
With only two days of practice in our new positions our team took to the field ready to play. The first quarter the opposing team got the first touchdown. Well things started to look like the game would go like our other two UNTIL we got a touchdown. The other team fumbled and we recovered we got another touchdown from that point on we never fell behind. The second and third quarters went well both of the teams kind of went back and forth with touchdowns.
The fourth quarter was horrible I was center and the guy who gave me no problems the entire game suddenly stepped up and ran me over four times and facemasked me a few times which led to my nerves just going haywire and I started to do things that they had been telling me not to do the entire week. But let me redeem myself the guy across from me was probably 220 lbs I'm only 180 lbs. So you can see that I was at a little disadvantage. We won the game 58 to 42 so we broke the losing streak and replenished the moral of our team |
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Okay, I’m going to type this quickly. The past three weeks have been a lazy boy’s nightmare. Since the last time I posted I have gone through two weeks of two-a-days, one game, and nearly a week of school. Oh yeah three jammed fingers, two jammed wrists, and a twisted ankle that may keep me out of tomorrow’s game. Isn’t football just great? My worst looking one is my finger; it got caught in a dog pile as I wrapped a guy up in practice. Then I had to pry my hand out from under six guys. Later that night it turned a sapphire blue color from the knuckle to the nail. It was kind of cool. My ankle injury happened Tuesday when my entire body went straight but my ankle stayed pointing to the left. So I may not be able to play in tomorrow night’s game, which really stinks. As for the game last week, all I will say is that we lost 58-6. For a team that has 14 guys who have never played football. It could have been worse. We were horrible in the first quarter. The second we did better but we were tired. At halftime we collected our thoughts and came back out and played hard but by then they were so far ahead that the ref had to invoke the mercy rule. So we never got to finish. Our coach said we didn’t have enough experience to know what it would be like. But an encouraging thing he said is that he’s proud of the effort we gave even though we were losing.
and Mrs. J, I will survive. (I hope)
I'm out
Zac
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Aug. 17, 2007 football, day 2
Well here is the first installment of today's two-a-days. I woke up at 6'am and went to a college football arena. We started off with a half-mile run, (4:45) a decent time not the best. Then we ran up and down the bleachers. Let me take the time to explain the size of these things 150 stairs each row, six different row's.
That's ABOUT 900 STAIRS!!!! Talk about being sore and tired. Then we did about 30-45 min of stretching.
NOT you average stretches, VERY VERY VERY hard stretches. Let's put it this way young girls aught to be able to do these but guys are not. But I guess we'll have to try. Then he surprised us with making us run the seat part of the bleachers. about 75 of them, I did them twice. That's 1050 stairs total!!!! I'm going to stop typing and go take a nap because we are going to start practicing plays tonight.
Oh yeah our team name is Fire.... That's it just Fire??? I'm curious as to what are mascot would look like if we had one. Our coach is the brother of pro football player Barry Sanders. Yes the Barry Sanders. |
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Aug. 16, 2007 Football, Day 1
| Well I survived my first weight session in football. My arms felt like rubber and my legs felt like to large lead weights. But it was worth it . Partly because I'll probably been in awesome shape by the end of the season. I found out that this is a very small team, about 10 people so far. If you know football your probably wandering how we can play because you've only seen 11 man football teams, but our league plays eight on the field at a time. So you can tell that we are cutting it very close. The one good thing is the fact that I don't think I need to worry about not getting to play. |
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You were not going to hear much from me any way, but now you'll hear even less. I found out that a private school down the road from our house is accepting homeschooling teenagers into there football program.
So for the next nine weeks I will be Extremely busy.
The best part is that it is a "Church" league so games and practices are not on Sunday.
Zac |
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