by Brandon Wofford

Created on: November 09, 2007   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

If you loose a game, If it doesn't hurt, there's something wrong. Especially a football game. That goes for the team and the coach. All year, they work as hard as they can, and EVERY team works too hard to loose, they deserve to win. But things that should happen don't always go accordingly. Teams loose.

All losses are taken hardly because you got beat. The other coach was superior in the game. The coaches work as hard as they can to show kids to become the best athletes they can possibly be, but it depends on the effort and intensity of the players.

Wins and looses are exactly how they make you feel. And no one has any right to comment on that. Coaches deserve respect for all the effort they give, for all the film they watch, all the plays they make, and all the time they give.

I had a coach that had a rough life in general. His first wife died, and kept him from becoming a professional baseball player, and his second wife obviously didn't know it wasn't okay to sleep with the neighbors; but I'll spare you his life story. I was never the best player, and the coach never really payed attention to me especially; But he taught me something, he taught us all something; how to overcome adversity.

Reading the title of this article, honestly, made me a little pissed. Every day I wanted to quit, every single day. It was so hard. But then he would tell me how proud he was of us, and that kept me going. NO TEAM deserves a loss. I know this because my league championship for football was tonight, and we lost by a bad call by the ref. We didn't get that last touchdown in a distance I can measure with my right hand. My team just stood there, watching the red and black jump up and down and yell. They won. We lost. Tonight they celebrated in our house.

I'm probably never going to touch a football for the rest of my life, and thats how I had to end it. The 5 months of my life, were I busted myself every single day, ended up like this. We were all quiet. In the huddle at the end zone, the coach let us know how proud he was of us. You will never have any idea what that meant to me. YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ANY IDEA.

There are people who coach football, and then there are football coaches. Rarely, will you get a coach that cares, and is proud of everything you do. I got the change to meet one in my life. And if I ever hear criticism from anyone for what our coach did, and what he gave, I'm going to hit them right in the mouth.

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