Can football be Scary?

I think we can all say that football is an aggressive, mean, or intrusive sport. I know a lot of people that will not play football because of one word, fear. Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Fear does not only deal with football, but other things in life. What if you are out late at night and get pulled up behind with a scary looking car. That little thing inside your mind that keeps talking to you is fear. You are watching a scary movie with your friends and you act all tough but you have fear inside of you.

Fear shouldn’t be a problem for the people that play football. You are a starting varsity freshman linebacker and you have A solid 250 pound running back coming right at you. What would you do? Get low and make the tackle or get out of the way? It is all about if you have the courage to do so. You cannot have fear in any physical hitting situations in football. Practices are to show the coaches how physical and mentally tough you are. If you have no fear in practice, go hard, and make the right reads and tackles it shows the coaches that you are physically and mentally ready for the varsity game field. Football players cannot have the fear to to do any of these things. Football is a game of physical, enthusiastic, mentally and physically tough kids that have no fear.