Personal Narrative: The Sport Of Football

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I know football can be a very challenging sport. It is challenging by being very physical. Also it can challenge you mentally and emotionally. I know football is a physical sport from exerencies. When we played gallup I hit their running back so hard in the helmet that our sideline heard the hit from the field. When playing physical you are determined to get someone or yourself injured. I’ve slightly torn my minuscules in my left knee. I’ve needed surgery in my left shoulder, which kept me out of three games. Those three weeks felt like the longest three weeks of my life. How do most people deal with their injuries after the season is over? I wonder if the injuries I have now, will they affect me when Im older? Is surgery the best way to deal

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Personal Narrative: My Sport Of Football

Everyone has a sport they play. The sport I play is football. The thing I like about it is the feeling of releasing anger, then gaining happiness back from it. For others it is different, some like silent calm sports like golf where one sits in the calm, quietness of a course that has holes in it and they hit a ball with a stick into a hole. But for me my sport is football. Where you get to release power, grow stronger and have a chance to just have fun and hurt people without getting hurt. In my…

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Remember The Titans Critique

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Personal Narrative Essay On Paintball

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