Entry #6: The good ol times

The time I was selected to play for the city in a all high school exhibition game had to be the best highlight of my high school year. On a Sunday night watching movies I received a text from one of best friends saying congrats and just trying to figure out what I did. Of course I responded thank you but then followed saying what did I do, and that's when she pulled a picture from the local news having my name posted for El Paso Greatest All-Star Game. It's game between east vs west and the city and all high school coaches get together and choose the players that deserve to play one more high school game. As soon I got the news I woke up my dad just telling him about the event and how excited I was, running around the house I think I woke up my sisters too but I didn't care. Being in that game meant a lot for me because my all my uncles that played  football made it and that's what motivated me to try and  succeed in the making list. On November 30th it was the first day of practice, having all this really skilled players that exceed in there position made the environment great just knowing we all wanted to beat the west side. Never had I been in a practice where we all went 100 percent just going at each other every practice play we had going felt like game speed, that's when I knew we wanted it the most. This exhibition game had gone for twenty four years before I made it but the last 11 years west side has dominated, that meant a lot to us because we knew we had better, faster, stronger players than they did so we had to beat them. As two weeks of practice go by it was media day, we had to mentor young athletes, take pictures, and have a team dinner, the term "time flys," I find that term very true so I cherished every moment I did the little we had. Come game  day I knew we were going to win from the get go just walking in the locker room you can feel it in the air we had music loud just hyping all of us up, having our face paint on, it felt like a movie. As soon as we all walked outside it's felt great being recognize by the city they had us all line up by number and our parents on the field. As soon it got to my number they had my name and picture on a jumbo screen and I ran to my mom then walked with her for 30 yards but that moment I felt like I made my mom proud,  all my hard work for ten years she put up with I gave back to her.

With all players being done it's was game time, the first drive we had we scored and from that point on it didn't stop. Each quarter it was an average of seventeen points just putting on show, all the talented players we had just felt like playing against a your little siblings  in the backyard  and just have no mercy. 70-14 was the final, the biggest defeat the in all the years that the showcase ever had. That made us the best team in El Paso history and that was just great feeling.