Personal Narrative: The Field Goal Is Good

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It’s not every day you here the crowd erupting with cheers and the announcers saying “The field goal is good. Senior Jess Greaney with another 30 yarder.” Coming from a small town in Massachusetts it’s not very often you see a girl playing football. “Football is a boys sport”… “You would get murdered if you ever stepped on the field”... I heard this day in and day out as I walked through the school’s hallways. I had the people whispering doubts in my ear and people giving me the skeptical eye. I was even accused of making it all up and getting the football coach to play along. I was serious and so was he. I challenged the stereotype and was going to prove everybody wrong. Growing up my brother had played football for years and my dad even