Football Failure

One of the most obvious examples of failure in my life comes from sports. I played football for something like eight years. A portion of those seasons were not pretty. If I remember correctly my worst seasons came in a streak. It must've been 4th, 5th, and 6th grade.

Those teams were compromised of a very similar group of kids. I liked them though and I liked my coaches. We probably won two games in that three year stretch, but that was fine. We practiced, we tried, but we couldn't win.

I learned a couple things from this.

This is when I learned that no matter how good you are, or how good you think you are, football is called a team sport for a reason. There is no carrying in that sport, no matter what level you are at. You must work together with one another, getting angry at one another will

I am now able to hold my tongue when needed and if someone on my team fails I try to help them instead of blame them. More realistically I keep the blame in my head, which is still much better.

Another thing I learned was how weird adults, more specifically parents, could be. Weird may not be the word, but some of them would get so into little league football. It was mind-boggling, it was a bunch of 10 year old children running around with a football, but these 40 year old adults would get angry and yell at the coaches and referees. It's almost like they revert to a primitive state of mind.

This kind of leads into the next thing, parenting styles. I already went to school for sometime, but I was young and you never really talk to the parents. Football you see these parents 3-5 times a week. You see how they talk to their kids, how they treat them, the whole 10 yards. I found that some were absolutely crazy about their kid playing football, like they thought their kid was the next Tom Brady. Others would just not show up to any practices or games. I honestly couldn't tell you which one was