Football Fight

It was another day of middle school practice. We went through our stretches and our running. It was humid and everyone seemed to be on edge. For some reason it seemed to be be pick on Austin day who was once of our lineman. He was in a extremely sensitive mood and for some reason a slap on his butt was not appreciated or excepted by him on this particular practice date. Our team noticed this and continued to do it. Our coaches were even getting in on the fun as they laughed at his look of anger after every "ass slap." We continued this tell it all went down hill.

Austin got to a point were saliva started to spew out of his mouth like a raccoon with rabies. Most of the team stopped except for one of the other linemen who was not the smartest and was still getting a kick out of Austin's steam rolling out of his ear holes on his helmet. It was on a jog around the field when he finally snapped, and everyone knew it was only a matter of time. Austin quickly flipped the switched tackled the kid and started pounding on him. Why he chose to punch his face mask of his helmet I have not figured out to this day, but he did. The kid who made him snap laid on his back as Austin punched his face mask and cussed a storm up at him. He laughed as this all happened until Austin grabbed his face mask and started pounding his head on the ground. This is when the coaches finally broke it up.

Our coach with his high squeaky voice yelled at the two with anger as spit flied. They both rolled over and knew what was coming. Our coach sent them on the dreaded leaf run to the woods. This meant you had to run all the way across the farmers field to the woods and grab leaves off the  tree and bring them back. They had to do this run twice together which made it even better. They were panting like dogs by the time we finished and our coach let us watch it all go down and lectured us to on treating teammates with respect, even after they got a crack out of it.

To this day we still share this story when we talk about football and get a great laugh out of it. These memories of sports when we were young and having fun are some of the greatest stories to share and laugh about. There isn't a time when I see Austin that I don't think about this time in our football past and chuckle about it as I am doing now.