It was 3:30 by the time we were finished eating in pre-game, and time to relax and get ready for the game. The first thing I remembered was being asleep being woken up by Coach Fresina to get up and go get taped. Doing my Friday routine, I got dressed into all my apparel for the game and put my headphones on all the way up and went into the training room. There standing there was my best friend Trinity waiting to tape my wrists. I took off my wrist bands so she could tape my wrists. As I got my wrist taped, I talked to Trinity and my brother Keenan. Afterwards, I went into the locker room to chill. “Time to head to the theater men it’s 5:35” said Coach Sid We watched our motivational video to motivate us to do our best. After that we headed to the stadium to get ready for the game. As we made our way onto the field to walk and …show more content…
I started to jump and get hyped and I knew at that point that this was going to be the game to win and get us back on the right track. Early in the game we caught them off guard and made a quick touchdown on a pass to Darryl on two McKinley defensive backs and lead the game 7-0. This play relieved some of the stress from me and my teammates on defense because our offense was up and running. Usually it take a while for our offense to start scoring, but they started off well. We went back out on defense and got a few more stops, then unexpectedly McKinley started a drive down the field, next, they finally score on us on a big jet sweep play. This made the game 7-7. “We’re still okay” I said. We didn’t stress hard about it. Then the slick McKinley Panthers kick an onside kicked to try to steal the ball back and we scooped and scored. This made the score 14-7. After that we got about three more stops to lead us into halftime of the tussle. We went into halftime on top. Coach Sid was low key proud of what we had done in the first