I have watched football whether it was on TV or in video games since I was a child I did not get a full understanding of the NFL till I was 11 and I really got into the NFL, I did see the Rams and the Titans where the Rams made the huge defensive stop to win the Super Bowl 34 back in 2000 which was a great game and then you have the Patriots a couple years later where they won their first Super Bowl. It was awesome to watch and yeah they did struggle the following year where they end up struggling and then falling short of the playoffs even though they were above .500 at 9-7 but unfortunately fell short. I end up following the NFL immensely in 2002 when I was 12 years old and going to 5th grade. And seeing how when Lawyer Milloy was cut from the Patriots and eventually got added to the Bills, The Patriots did loss their first game and then won 2 consecutive before dropping their 4th game to add a 2nd loss to their season. When that happened I was thinking oh the Patriots are going to struggle this year or even have another mediocre season but fortunately that was not the case the fact that the Patriots end up winning games where I least expect it that was the most exciting to watch. Seeing how they rebound from the loss to the Redskins I was left to wonder "How did the Patriots end up winning games without Lawyer Milloy?" And it led to the Successful coaching of Bill Bellichick especially where my brother said, "Because he is Smart." Low and behold it was true the streaking continued all the way until Superbowl 38 where the Patriots won their second Super Bowl, and I got to say this was one of the best streaks to watch. Being a football fan and even doing fantasy football well as I got older I began understanding what football is about and on top of that how competitive football really is.
Aside from playing the Madden Video games all these years, I eventually dove into playing for the High School football team and for me joining and taking the actual experience of how it feels to play on the football team. Doing the off season training and on top of that the workout drills while I was doing the paper route with my brother where I had to get up early and deliver papers and maybe even run to the houses as well and constantly be on the grind. And for me to lose weight and then do the drills and the workouts to a T was a major surprise, because over the years I have struggled to lose weight and that is because I struggled with Laziness and on top of that even struggled with eating discipline. When I moved to Boston I went from 197 pounds down to 141 pounds and man it was insane losing incredible weight and then after my vacation at a camp I was rusty and not ready but eventually I end up ready for the football season even though I was a rookie. I was not as great and not as focused but managed to make some memorable plays. Like a tackle, a forced fumble and another tackle just tugging the dude. And there were blundering mistakes where I would jump off sides or miss tackles and not get sacks and this was where I need to be really aggressive which I have been needed to develop. Well I had a great season rooting and spreading energy and being part of a team even though they had struggled especially the thanksgiving game but the wins we had were still memorable ones. Experiencing how the practices were like, the post practice conditioning and sometimes the extra practice conditioning which where it is intense, I was really into the hype of playing on a football team and want to be a star player instead of figuring out ways to work hard and better the team, if my mind was where it is now it would be about bettering the team and being successful.
One of the biggest things in Sports I am really starting to connect with is understand how the coaching system in Football is like especially with how to run a team. Stuff that I learned is that there are supportive players who supported tough coaches like Tom Coughlin, or even Jim Harbaugh, or even my brothers High School coach back in Miami, Florida where he fired up an average team or even average players and fire them up and excel them to be a success. Well coaches is supposed based on what I observe they being intensity and energy and supposed to carry a team to bring success, I felt affected on how coaches handle wins and loses and maybe even draws especially losses that were close games, how the coach was still impressed with our performance the only time that he was upset with losses is if they were blowouts. Especially the quote where he yelled, "That Game we played was EMBARRASSING! I don't want to HEAR A WORD!" and then he yelled, "Offensive Line CHRIST ALMIGHTY! BLOCK SOMEBODY! YOU'RE GONNA GET YOUR QUARTERBACK KILLED!" Man I was very upset about that loss even my brother realized we did not play with any heart that led us playing lousy. But he played on well achieving teams especially where they went 8-2 but fell short of the championship. I don't know what his coaching was like but I can get more into it in another blog but seeing the competitiveness of what part of leading a competition is can and has to be really interesting.
Well this season has started and with only 3 games in there has been some unpredictability and some games where it has been the most expected football has the fewest games out of all major sports and has some good behind it, it shows that every game counts and on top of that 32 teams give it their all and even fight for a playoff spot and where there are upsets or blowouts, or expected wins, they really define how are you going to react to wins and losses and how you plan to move on and fight for the next win. You don't just battle your opponents on the field but you battle critics and even doubters and even trash talkers and even your inner self and even the system how do you battle all of that to win games, how do you battle to emerge victorious no matter what the outcome of the game is. Seeing how pregames are when you get fired up and the captain of the team especially gets you fired up especially after being focused on preparing for the game and getting down to business, it is fun where it gets serious and competitive, and I feel this is what fall season is about. The Weather getting cooler, going back to school, and even now having less vacations and being more focused on your jobs. The other important thing is shows coming back with new episodes, so there is the entertaining part as well. Seeing How fall season is especially with football season back brings many various atmosphere especially in the fall season.
