The Importance Of Winning In A Football Team

If anyone has ever been in a competitive sport, then they know what if feels like to be in an intense game. At times, winning can be the only thing on your mind, the most important goal of your team. As a football player, every win we achieved as a team brought on a rush of enthusiasm and energy. It was one of the best feelings in the world at the time. In fact, I would say winning was all I cared about in every game I played in. Of course, that didn’t happen, we lost almost every game my final season of football before I transitioned into the band program, but winning was all that mattered to me. A well known football coach once said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” I can see his point of view. Whether in a high stakes game for a championship or maybe just a preseason scrimmage. Winning is the only way your team can progress to the top, and of course, that is the ultimate goal of your team. To be the best at what you do. However, as I have grown older and joined the band

This is when we get how we feel out. I see the seniors look at all of the rookies, crying that their time with the marching band would soon come to an end, jealous that the rookies still have three more years to go in the program. The circles got more and more emotional every year, and at first, I didn’t understand it. Until Grand National Finals in 2014, when I found myself crying along with most of the seniors. We had become a family. This was so much more than just a marching band show. We had put in so much time, so much blood, sweat, tears, and effort into this show, with the people we grew so close to over the months we practiced. It became the most emotional and powerful feeling to walk onto that field as a family, not caring what placement or score we got. It didn’t matter, as long as I left the field with no regrets, as long as I left the field with my heart out