The score was 2-1, playing in the last few minutes of the game, he wanted to make one more goal, faking out the defense moving the ball down field, he does a trick shot and he scores! With 4 second left, he scored one last goal and won the game! Everyone runs to the field cheering for Jack and The Warriors! College scouts swarming the field, trying to get Jack’s attention. Every head coach handing out their business card to him, every coach wanted him to be a part of their team, but he only had one team he was interested in being a part of.
When we entered the stadium to play we were a little early so we got some water and started getting each other excited to play. Then it was time, we went onto the field screaming and hollering like maniacs. When the first team came out to play we were ready to play some defense. They ran to the left, and then the right and then down the middle, no matter where they went we stopped them we had them locked out, there was no way they could score. By the end of their twenty plays, Rosemont had scored one touchdown, we were ecstatic.
The Colts got the ball back and the fans started to boo their team as they left the stadium. The final score was 35-27. The Colts improved to 11-0 in the season and Houston fell to 5-6. I was proud to see my team win despite them coming back from losing by 13 at halftime. Attending my first NFL game was a great experience for me.
Those moments were just building up to what I had anticipated most: to finally take the field with my varsity teammates. The crowd was cheering as the announcer said “Here are your 2004 Valley View Eagles!” At that moment, I remember every nervous limb in my body being replaced with electricity throughout my veins as we rushed across the green grass. The crowd was roaring, the entire varsity football team was yelling in excitement, and most importantly, I was finally underneath the Friday night
In the movie we see a team overcome their racial differences to come together on the football field and go undefeated. The team seams to rally around the quote “left side, strong side,” as DeMott writes, “such dialogue is the stuff of romance” (DeMott 568). And after they come together and win the state championship the movie gives the viewer the sense that the town came together and there was no racism when in fact after the season was over and the post-victory glow had wore off the town returned to be racist as ever. This “beatifies the impulse to turn away from the real-life agenda of actions capable of reducing racial injustice” (DeMott 573). This movie also credits the team’s success to the team’s ability to overcome their racial differences while downplaying the fact that there were several All-Americans on the team.
The pristine quality of the picture amazed all first time attendants. As the minutes dwindled, the PA announcer had to speak louder and louder, just to be heard over the roar of the crowd. As the game clock ticked down to twenty- two seconds, the pure white jerseys were now stained green and brown from the turf and dirt. This building is truly a great place to house the Dallas Cowboys and the game of
Twice during their senior year, Nat had managed to miss the ball completely with his foot, creating some of the most watched video footage of all. The second miss had resulted in a 94 yard run for a touchdown - he had been standing in his own end zone, missed the ball completely, and then, in a series of scrambles and more attempts to kick it, he finally picked up the ball and ran it for the TD. Every other player including the opposing school was laughing so hard that no one could have stopped him if they tried! Rake later gave Nat the Award for the Ugliest Touchdown of the Year. When Neely enters the shop, Nat is overwhelmed to see him.
We had chance, after chance, after chance and nothing was going in. The time was running out and our dreams were slipping through our fingers. Until with five minutes left they fouled our best midfielder, who got midfielder of the year and was my brother, about thirty yards from goal. My brother hurried to the ball, we needed as many chances as we could get because time was against us. He judged his angle and determined where he would place the ball.
You would think being the best football player in the school, I would get more respect from my peers but nope everyone calls me the dork who has a 4.0 and plays football. I’m still wondering why it’s bad to be smart now days. Every since I moved here I was teased from day one. There is only 20 days until graduation and I’m so excited to be leaving this dumb. “ AH Kevin, what you thinking about”, asked my best friend Shawn.
After about a year, Kanan is back and playing on the Varsity Soccer Team. Not only is he working hard every practice and every game, but he now realizes how lucky he is to have the ability to play once again. “I see john working as hard as he can on the field but I also notice that while he is giving everything he has, he is in a lot of pain,” said Andrew Cornwall ’14. Even Today Kanan is having minor difficulties with his knee, but luckily he was gifted with a successful recovery. “I never realized how fortunate I was to be able to play soccer without having a constant pain in my knee,” said Kanan.