For the Love of the Game

There was this single quantify back in, I dont know, perhaps grade six, when I was compete foot lummox with some friends during recess. bear then(prenominal), all we did was touch foot ball game; it didnt matter if the speed of light banks were seven feet tall, because we didnt care. We respectable valued to play football. We would play tackle football as well even though the teachers told us not to. whole we did any ways, and every daytime we would be called inside for a take a leak words but the next day we would play again. This repeated universal for the whole year. Anyways, we were outside as usual when my friend basin sends a long flush it that was completely mis thrown and went way too naughty. We laughed at him for what seemed progresss until we saw Johns face. He was looking up at the roof of the school with a kind of sadness you only get when your dog dies.\nWe recognise the ball and landed on the roof and we all knew what that meant; The ball was gon e. The roof was a no-go zone where we thought at the time was someplace you should neer go because horrible things happened up there. This was only bolstered by the accompaniment that the teachers didnt want us to go up there. We knew we had to go up and get our football down because we knew we didnt have any other options. Of bloodline there were actually other options but back then every kid was make for the position of alpha male. Everybody wanted to be cool, Everyone wanted to be a hero, but we were even so afraid of the roof, only our jazz of that ball gave us courage and that overrode our fears of going up on that godforsaken place.\nWe needed that football. So we did what any kid our age would do. We all played joust paper scissors until we build the loser. I was the loser in this case so I had to go get the ball from the roof. There was no rock-steady place to get up on the roof seeing as there was no ladder to climb, and to a ordinal grader like me at that tim e the roof seemed as high as mount everest. But we needed that ball. So I grabbed a recycle ...