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And just like that the football season was over. The Poughkeepsie Pioneers finally achieved what they set out to do for so many years and won the section championship. The excitement ended the following week with a lost to Cornwall in the first round of State Championships. It was now time for the dreaded off-season. Most of the players look at the off-season as just an unnecessary wait to the regular season. This year was a little different. The players going into their Senior season looked forward to this off-season. They had the taste of success in their mouths and they craved for more. Just winning the section championship was not good enough no more. Coaches knew that and the players understood it. THe problem was like every other year, Seniors were graduating. It was the Juniors turn to take over the program and in order to do that this off season was crucial. I was among those Juniors and I understood it just if not more that this year as important. I wasn’t big on the leadership part; I left that to my friend Dan. It was a given that he was going to be one of the captains for Senior year. I was just focusing on making myself better. My entire Junior year was on the pine. Not because of skills, but because of health. My Junior year was plagued by injury and I had to nurse myself back to good health with rest and physical therapy. We won, but I felt like I contributed nothing to the team. I was just a spectator to my friends, my brotherhood, putting their bodies on the line every week. It frustrated me more than anything and I promised myself I would work everyday to get back on the field. Actually, we have been in the off season for about a two months now. It was already late February headed in to March. The first segme... ... middle of paper ... ... left. I walked out with them. Coach Barge never called me to talk. Even while we were changing in the locker room to go home I still didn’t get the call in the office. And it never did come By him not calling me in the office actually gave me a chance to think. I was so ready for my career to be over. I was lying to myself. I wanted to play football. I wanted to go to the NFL when I was a child. That dream is over, but I still had one more year left. I was going to play my Senior year and go out on the field, in pads, with my friends that I’ve played with for over seven years. Honestly that was all i cared about; being with the brotherhood. If I didn’t play I would feel like I would have turned my back on them and that wasn’t going to happen. This was just another obstacle for me. All I needed to do was work harder. That was the only thing I could do at this point.

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