We hear clicking cleats on concrete as the other team walks toward our football field. They already look defeated. They know they\u2019re in trouble. We’ve had eight games so far this season, and we\u2019ve let the opposition score a combined total of three points against us. We lost our first game to Colby College 3-0 and we’ve since pitched seven consecutive shutout victories. We don\u2019t just want to win; we want to dominate. We don’t just want to tackle them when they have the ball; we want them to remember being tackled. We play like a pack of wild dogs.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s snowing. Slush covers the field. Big flakes continue to fall. Kents Hill School took a two-hour bus ride to get here\u2014here being, New Hampton Prep, where I’m continuing my education. I graduated from high school last year, and I’ve added a post-graduate year. . I want to play football in college, and an extra season will allow me to get bigger, faster and stronger. <\/p>\n
Our whole team is a little off. Every guy has a backstory. He wants to get bigger, or he wants to improve his grades or there’s some other reason why he landed in a remote town in the mountains of New Hampshire for a fifth year of high school. We\u2019re a team of 22 kids from all over New England. Most of us had success on the field in high school. And we\u2019re all a little bit mental.<\/p>\n
The other team should have stayed home. By the third quarter the snow has stopped, but we haven\u2019t. We\u2019ve got another shutout on the board in the third quarter. Kents Hill has the ball, and they accomplish something opposing teams rarely do\u2014they get the ball past our side of the 50-yard line. They desperately want to score. It\u2019d be a victory to do what no other team has done all season against us\u2014score a touchdown. But not today. Not on our watch. <\/p>\n
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