self write #4
Flag football
A few weeks back my boy walks up to me and asks if he could
play football. My first response was
sure go outside and play. His response to
me was he wants to play tackle football so he could hit people. Of course after my surprise, I laughed and
told him that football wasn’t about hitting people but about the team and
learning to play together. Hitting was part of the game not the reason to
play. Of course he is growing up in a
house of football fanatics that yell at the television to hit the player on the
other team. Guess little ones do learn
by watching.
Knowing that football is a very demanding sport and that he
had tried soccer and baseball and decided that at the end of the season that he
didn’t want to play again, I was skeptical that he would stick with it. So I offered him flag football for one season
and if he wanted to play tackle then I would let him.
It didn’t take me long to realized that he was serious about
playing. At practices he doesn’t seem too
enthusiastic, but at game time, that changes.
He becomes focused on his assigned tasks and never stops until the whistle
blows. At the first game of the season
he ran in the ball for a touchdown and as you see in the picture the intensity in
his eyes is proof that I will be shelling out a lot of money for football
gear. But what really made me realized
that he will continue is that he called both of his grandfathers and told them
all about the game.
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