Wake up, do your job, get yelled at, get beat up, this is not the life of a jail inmate, this is the life of an offensive lineman and for my whole career as a football player, this is what I have had to endure.
The sound of a coach screaming in your ear that you are lazy and not good is not something you want to, or need to hear at 7:30 in the morning. This is why for my whole life I have always felt that I did not belong in this position. I feel like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle that is trying to be fit into the wrong spot.
This feeling is not just felt on the field but in my life as well. I have always been perceived as a guy who doesn't really care what people think and is kind of a pushover. What I really feel inside though is built up rage that I can't express what I really am. I do care what people think, and I am not a pushover. This anger is also shared on the field because for my whole life I have wanted to be a linebacker.
When I showed up to football in fourth grade I was expecting to be able to pick my position and be able to play. I was gravely mistaken though because on arriving I was put on a scale and was found to be over 90 lbs so I could play nothing but the line. I was sad at the time but just thought to myself, "Next Year".
I waited.
Meanwhile, I was still playing other sports including basketball and baseball. I was torn because my dad's first love has always been baseball, and my mom played basketball in college. Neither one of them played football so they couldn't help me out on this one. I decided not to make any decisions until later on, when I got to high school.
And waited.
5 years later I was coming into high school and I asked the coach if there was any way of making a switch to linebacker but once again I was deterred because, "My size was too much of an asset to play off the ball."
So I waited again.
walt your introduction does not connect with the rest of your paper. i would leave out the jail part and i know for a fact that coaches dont say your not good enough. in the intro it sounds like you do not belong playing football but then you move into that you do not belong playing line but instead linebacker. it is kind of confusing. the middle is not very good. leave out the pushover stuff and connect more with wanting to be a different position to real life better and make it more understandable in the paper. the second paragraph about your parents i think should be left out because it has nothing to do with your paper and does not connect to anything.
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