Playing With Purpose Book Report

The book Playing with purpose is a biography written by Mike Yorkey. It is about three young men Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy, and Tim Tebow. They were all college football players at the university of Oklahoma, Texas, and Florida. As these athletes were going to play football at college and in the NFL they took the Lord into their lives.

Sam Bradford was tall lengthy high schooler that earned scholarships in his junior year. But Sam's main love in his childhood wasn't football in fact it was ice hockey, but he soon had to give it up. He went to football camps at the University of Oklahoma and they soon offered him a scholarship. Is his years at Oklahoma Sam made it a pregame ritual to read a inspirational story from the Bible before he took the field. “ He flipped some pages and landed in 1 Samuel 17, which tells the story of david and Goliath. He was mesmerized as he read about David a scrawny shepherd boy who had fate of his people in his hands, took on a nine-foot-tall giant- a bruiser named Goliath”(Yorkey 48).

Just like Sam at Oklahoma, Colt went to camps at Texas University during his sophomore and junior years in high school. It wasn't until Colt went to Austin and meet head football coach Mack Brown. The two got along, Colt and Texas began to really mesh. Colt liked everything about Texas, ... “ he fell in love with the University of Texas program after attending Mack Brown's summer camp. They also liked the offensive system the Longhorn coaches had installed” (Yorkey 86). So it wasn't a shock when McCoy committed to Texas at the end of his junior year. Colt was introduced to the Lord in his early years. He was in a gospel with the rest of his