Football: Agression and Teamwork

Aggression is something that you need when plying football. Football is a physical and aggressive game. You work so hard and even if you work as hard as possible but one of your teammates takes a play off you team will suffer. This is the one game in which it takes one hundred percent every play just for your team to have a chance at success. In other games one player can win a game for you. For example in soccer is little to no action all game. In the end when a team wins one to nothing the game is ultimately won by the one player, which scored a goal. In baseball a pitcher can dominate the entire game and win the game for their team. This is the complete opposite in football because if no one blocks for a running back then there is no way he can score or even gain a first down. Football is the ultimate team game in which you need to go full tilt for the entire game because you know your brother who is standing on either side of you is counting on you and trusts you to do your job.

This is where the most complicated part of football is encountered. Aggression when you get to where you need to be. During the duration of a play you can take all the right steps and be in the right spot but when you meet your opponent it’s a battle to see who is the stronger man. This game is played at full speed every second and hitting is involved on every play so aggression is something that’s a must. A perfect example of this is linebacker Bart Scott during the playoff game against the Patriots. The game was over and he was in his press conference and you could still see the aggression and anger he played with all game.

Bing a football player you respect and love to stand next to a man who is playing with a purpose all day. This inspires you to do everything you can to work as hard as him because you know u can count on him and now you don’t want to let him down. I know because I am a five foot five and everyone looks at my size and assumes that I am not able to play this game. This inspires me to play with a purpose and a chip on my shoulder to prove my critics wrong. This motivation allows me to play with aggression and as a freshman playing running back for the first time in college I went out with a purpose. I set my mind to creating a physical tone for the team so on my second carry of the game I ran over a senior cornerback on curry who had me by six inches and 70 pounds.

During the long haul of a football season I work to gain a respect of my team by going out everyday and putting in two hours of dedicated work no matter how tired or how meaningless practice seems to me on that day. This is because work everyday in the trenches with your teammates builds relationships to those men that make them seem as if they are my brothers. This bond unites us and enables us to work together for the one common goal.