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“And he could go all the way… TOUCHDOWN!” rumbled the announcer. This year, I played on the Wesclin JV and freshman football team. I started on offense, defense, and special teams for most of the year. In fact, I just turned 15 years old and I have 2 brothers. I like music a lot. As a result, I listen to it every single day. All types of music are fine with me besides country and orchestra. I chose “Teach Me How to Dougie” for my first football experience. I chose this song for several reasons. One reason is that I like the song a lot and it gets me fired up before football games. I felt smooth while waltzing into the end zone, and it talks about being smooth in the song “Teach Me How to Dougie.” Also, I felt like doing the ‘Dougie’ after my touchdown. This year was my first year of fun, exhilarating, organized football. I only scored 3 touchdowns this year. My first touchdown of my life was at Vandalia this year. It was a 48-yard reverse run. The quarterback stuck the ball in my gut and I ran. I didn’t stop running until the ref put his arms in the air symbolizing a touchdown. I outran number 29, outran number 86, outran number 47, I outran the whole Vandalia team. We won that game by 2 or 3 touchdowns. For my second experience, I chose a stellar theme song. I chose the ‘Monday Night Football’ theme song. This song is played before NFL Monday night games. I chose this because it talks about football. We knew that the home game against Carlyle was going to be as tough as nails. Our coaches told us that we would get smoked if we didn’t bring our ’A’ game. We came out ready, prepared, and fired up. The score was 0-0 going into 2nd quarter. Theole threw me the ball in the corner of the end zone. I had the defender beat and I lunged for the ball. It smacked into my gloved hands and I kept my feet inbounds. Touchdown! We only scored 2 touchdowns that entire game. Big, bad Schultz had the other touchdown in the game. We won 14-13. It was the most important game of the short, fun season. For my last and most recent experience, I chose the song “Boys of Fall.” I dislike country, but this song is an exception. In fact, I like it because it talks about playing football and my experience has to do with football. Like I said before, I only had 3 touchdowns this season. However, it doesn’t matter to me if I score, as long as we win the game. At the Freeburg game, we dominated them like a fat kid dominates a buffet line at Pizza Market. We beat Freeburg by four touchdowns. It was fourth down and they finally had the ball. They were pathetically backed up in their own territory. As a result, they were basically forced to punt the ball away. Kyle Eversgerd was back to return the punt. The ball was kicked high in the dark, cloudy, and gently night sky. Kyle grabbed the slippery, brown ball and ran my way. As I watched an opposing player come up from behind Kyle and try to tackle him, my mind raced. I stepped up and absolutely leveled the kid right before he could make the tackle. Our sideline went crazy. We had a pretty successful football season. Not to mention, it was pretty fun as well. After these experiences and many others, I am definitely going to play again next year. I will remember high school football for the rest of my life. Writing this essay made me realize how amazing this football season was.media type="youtube" key="oBG98ksQAg4?fs=1" height="385" width="480"media type="youtube" key="Iz1FsGSjgy8?fs=1" height="385" width="480"
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media type="youtube" key="AlXDo5WhQXI?fs=1" height="385" width="640" **Super Bowl Victory** The music reminds me of the Saints Super Bowl victory. It was February 7, 2010.The faithful, hopeful, and damaged city of New Orleans was rocking. Their football team, the Saints made it to their first Super Bowl ever. Everybody was excited. The pace of the important, magnificent game consistently grew and died with big, mind-blowing plays by the accurate, big-play making Drew Brees and the intelligent, spectacular Peyton Manning. The whole city had hope even when the talented, underdog Saints were down at halftime. The mood became scary, intense, and serious when the Saints coach, Sean Peyton, called an onside kick to begin the second half. The Saints recover ed the brown, lightweight ball and took control of the game. Tracy Porter, the young, fast, and explosive defensive back on the Saints, sealed the deal with an interception touchdown to close the door on the struggling Indianapolis Colts. The Saints were victorious. The friendly, exhilarating French Quarters back home in New Orleans, was rocking. It was the most triumphant thing to happen to the poor city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. This was more than a game to the city of New Orleans that was underwater just a couple years before. **My Tree** In my picture, there is two different sides. One side is full of zest and enthusiasm; however,﻿ the other side is dark and electrifying. On the left side, there is a tree full with joyful leaves. On the right, there are gloomy black clouds, melancholy drops of rain, and a cheerful cat getting killed by a bolt of terrifying lightning. The tree in my picture is glorious and brings happiness. As you can see, above the tree is a blissful sun and a pure white cloud. media type="custom" key="7799087"