My Haiku

Andreas Fell

10/21/14

Prof. Young

ENG 1100

My Haiku

            For the past twelve years of my life every Saturday, and every fall haven’t been a typical time for me. Ever since the second grade my fall consisted of going to practice, and then on Saturdays having games. The amount of love I have for the sport, I cannot explain in words. There is no feeling like the one when you put your pads on and buckle up your helmet before a game. The game taught me how to work together not as a unit but as a family. The major point of the game is to learn how to learn to sacrifice to benefit the team. As an offensive lineman my job is to literally hit someone very play to ensure that the ball and the ball carrier stay safe and make it through to score my team points. Even though my position, and others like it do not get much glory I know that without me doing my job correctly and doing it with effort I benefit my team. “The ball is like a child” that means, to me, I must protect the ball like I am protecting a child, I have to do whatever is in my power to make sure that nobody except the ball carrier has contact with it.