Flickering like a neon sign downtown. Knowing what just hit me, made me fall to my knees. Visioning back to practices in the hot sun. Crying my heart to my knees, running an obstacle course, I continued to push because I knew that, pain was only weakness leaving the
At the beginning of the third they tried do an onside kick and I was on the field for that. So they kicked the ball really short and it ended up in Theo’s hand so I told him “LET’S GO!!! !” and he followed me all the way to the end zone. We were up 12-8. So in the fourth quarter we started playing lazy, until the last 10 seconds.
Michael Taylor (the Eagles quarterback) called the out GREEN 8, GREEN 8, set go go, and handed it off to Todd Doxey (the Eagles runningback) right up the middle. Doxey lost control of the ball and fumbled the ball. The Raiders defensive end picked up the ball and proceded to run toward the endzone, but it just so happend to be the wrong endzone!! when the seemingly triumphant player reached the endzone he threw thell ball into the crowd in sheer amazment, but at that moment
I looked at the other team, they looked so good, but I knew we had the chance to beat them. I had never seen so many multi-cultured kids on a football team before, I was shocked but excited! They started the game with a toss off that we won, and we got the punt return. I was confused because the referee was yelling at me asking for a football. I was looking around for the footballs; he got impatient and started the game with T.C.
I tapped the ball in to the backcourt and raced down to the other basket, trying to beat the older guy who was late getting back on the previous play. I knew it was going to be a hard lay-up with contact, but for some reason I didn’t care that the court was covered with some gravel and some sand. When you have a true passion for something, you get immersed in the moment some times and strive to perform to the best of your ability at all times. As I jumped up for the layup, I received the contact that I was expecting, and was forced down awkwardly on the slippery outdoor court and tore my Anterior Crucial Ligament and my Meniscus. It was by far the worst pain I have ever had at that point in my life.
The ballad of Hillsborough by Simon Rae is about the disasterous football match that happened in 1989 when people were squished againts fences the lead to nintey-five dead. The ballad of Frankie and Jhonnie is about Jhonnie cheating on his girlfreind Frankie and Frankie shooting Jhonnie in revenge who then gets hung. The layout of a ballad is important because the poem needs to be broken up into so many stazas so that the ballad is easier to read or sing and is also easier to understand. Both ballads are broken up into stanzas. The ballad of Hillsborough, is broken up into thirteen stanzas with varying lines in each however, The ballad of Frankie and Jhonnie is broken up into fifteen stanzas with lines that vary beetween five and six lines in each.
It had been bright and sunny when I'd been out on the field, but I knew that the players sometimes played and practiced in freezing weather, shorts and all. I had to hum "Just Keep Swimming" to keep myself going, and that had been when I was doing lunges inside. I wondered what it was that got these players through the day. When the players kept running and I was about to pass out, I remembered that one scene in Superbad where the cop was in the same situation I was, trying to catch a kid who was still running while the cop was on his knees exhausted. The cop said that the kid was a "super freak", and that's kind of what I thought of the soccer teams.
This wasn’t what I looked forward to at all. My energy level of watching a football game dropped tremendously. “The modern game of American Football is tame compared to its early roots when in the early 1900's President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport because of plays like the "Flying Wedge." The play involved a number of offensive lineman with suitcase handles sewed onto their pants forming a wedge with lineman holding on to the player in front, and a ball carrier safely positioned in the
I knew that if they found out they would send me to one of those mental hospitals where they treat everyone like a madman. Everything escalated in my mind, creating situations I wasn’t in. I didn’t want to go, I thought the world was against me and the hospital would just be another bunch of phoneys trying to help freaks with phoney problems like me. I remember, trying to end it all there and then, I was depressed and lost. If Phoebe hadn’t taken it upon herself, to tell Mum and Dad, it could’ve been a lot worse, a whole lot worse.
One of my friends decided to chase me down, for I was trapped on top of his swing set with only one way down. He hurriedly climbed up the ladder to hunt me down, so I quickly plopped down and scooted forward to hastily go down the slide. However, when I inched up to the slide, I felt a sharp pain in my butt. I cried out in agony and hurried home. I was not sure what happened, but I knew something was stuck.