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Post by tog on Aug 13, 2011 19:28:01 GMT -6
Sometimes we get caught up in the day to day grind/process of the season, our lives outside football, our other jobs-teaching/whatever and the goals are out there and you are driving yourself and your team towards them so you don't really take the time or even allow yourself some reflection. Then comes that moment where you go "ahhh, man I really love this"
Besides the day to day interactions with the kids where they constantly surprise you with something good or bad, or with an unexpected thanks, I find these moments in a more "organic" way I guess.
Usually it is at a JV game when at the part of the season where the JV games get started around the time the sunsets start, things are cooling off a bit, school is in full swing, and the rigors of the routine are adjusted to. You see some JV kids that are close to being moved up start to turn that light on and the team has a good night, you can tell it is going to be a good night even in pregame. Men, for me that is when it really hits me. I love this game.
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Post by raiderx on Aug 13, 2011 20:44:46 GMT -6
Hits me when I see a couple of young (and I mean 2 Freshman and 1 Soph) in a varsity scrimmage turn that light on and do what I have been coaching them to do for the last couple of weeks...that is a what happened today.
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Post by gdoggwr on Aug 15, 2011 11:52:09 GMT -6
For me its when the team takes the field for pregame that first friday night. Gives me goosebumps everytime.
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 15, 2011 12:13:58 GMT -6
maybe its because of my age/energy level but i am almost always jacked for football
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Post by tog on Aug 15, 2011 22:14:46 GMT -6
maybe its because of my age/energy level but i am almost always jacked for football I didn't mean it like that so much. It's always the best part of my professional day. Sometimes it just hits ya know? |
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Post by coachguy83 on Aug 16, 2011 16:18:18 GMT -6
The most recent ah ha moment I had was a couple of weeks ago. I am coaching youth ball so we are already in week two of our games. I was having a really crappy day and I got our to the practice field and it was like wow you know what just being out here makes me happy.
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Post by insidethestripes on Aug 16, 2011 17:50:33 GMT -6
Just walking on the field to work a game does it for me. Every game, every level.
There's no place I'd rather be.
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Post by pvogel on Aug 17, 2011 13:35:16 GMT -6
its the lights. something about the lights make it feel big time.
the lights the crowd and the music before the game give me the chills everytime.
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Aug 17, 2011 14:28:09 GMT -6
Magic moments.
It's after the game, the band is finishing their last number and leaving the stands, the stands are almost empty save a few folks laughing and talking big, you've given your team talk and their walking to the field house. I go sit on the bench and look up at the scoreboard and smile. There's a light mist beginning to rise off the field and a cool breeze beginning to blow in my face.
My friend, it doesn't get much better than that in this life.
OJW
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Post by tog on Aug 17, 2011 22:44:47 GMT -6
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Post by bighit65 on Aug 18, 2011 20:53:21 GMT -6
The calm before the storm during pregame is one of my favorite parts of the season. This is something people that never played ball know nothing about. Also saw a former player at Subway today. He was a linebacker on an undefeated jv team 6 years ago. He told me that him and other guys still get together and talk about that season. Knowing that those guys will have lifelong memories makes all of the hard work worth it.
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Post by jlt on Aug 22, 2011 5:33:49 GMT -6
We dont have a stadium or floodlights (daytime matches) or even supporters (normally 10-15 family members).
What makes me realise it is the changing room before we take the field. We do our team talk and final minutes in a small changing room. We purposely use a small changing room rather than go outside to do it as it adds to the atmoshpere. We even have guys standing on benches to make room. Then we listen to audio.
Those 5 mins right there. Really makes it worthwhile being in the thick of it with the anticipation looking around at all the players prepared and ready to go represent their college.
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