Personal Narrative: Why I Love Football

Everyone has a favorite sport; my favorite sport is football. I love the game of football, it is a fun game to watch and play. The game is also a physical game to play; I love to be physical. That’s probably why I like it; also, football brings people together. There’s nothing better than getting together on Thanksgiving to watch football. I like every sport, but football is my favorite because of the love I have for the game, the physicality of the game, and the way the game brings people together. My love for the game is one of the biggest reasons I love football. All my life I’ve been playing football, from the backyard to high school. Football was the first sport I ever played. There would be days when there was nothing to do, so my friends and I would just go to the field and play football all day long; in some instances we would stay out there all night too. Football has provided me with a lot of memories that I will never forget; one memory is winning our conference my junior year in high

In every other sport, contact is against the rules; being involved in contact will get one a foul or depending on the sport maybe even thrown out of the game. Getting pumped up and knocking the snot out of someone is like nothing else. The only sport one can do this in is football. The position I play a football is called Linebacker. Basically the linebacker has one job: to find the person with the football and knock their head off. Since I am a physical person, I have no problem doing that. Football is all about contact, and that’s what I love the most. I have an anger problem and, therefore, I love contact; I never shy away from any kind of physical contact. A game of football after a long day of problems is good for me; also growing up with three brothers, I had to fight every day, so there’s nothing like a little physical game of