Similarities to Football

In a way I can compare football to our discussions over Lord of the Flies and how the boys give the impression like they will never be go home to their parents. The boys on the island are stranded and it seems like they will never get saved and will have to stay on the island forever. For a week of our football two a day’s we went to Detroit, Texas (I still don’t know where that is) and I especially knew that week was going to suck when our coaches started calling it hell week. Every day was degrading I remember counting off the practices with my teammates until we were leaving that Friday and finally going home. It seemed like an eternity everyday waking up early going through two painful practices, two hours each, and then the easy but still annoying special teams practice. Even though none of the guys cried at night wanting to go home I remember a couple of guys calling their parents asking them to come pick them up just so they could get out of the misery of practice. I don’t know how the boys on the island could survive without air conditioning especially on a tropical island with humid temperatures. In our two a day’s the Texas heat was unbearable the humidity was god awful and we were physically being tortured but to manly to admit it until after practice. The boys on the island must have been miserable because at least we had something to look forward in leaving they had no hope and were just sitting there hoping and hoping to be saved. Also on the island the boys turned more and more like savages everyday and in football people turn into different people when they step out onto the gridiron. In football as one of our coaches says, “You have to get nasty so you can turn your swagger on at the end of the game.” In addition to that everybody seems to turn on this new aggression against their opponent like they just killed your best friend and you just want to pound them to the ground. Football is a special game you have a few rules but other than that you’re free to hit each other as hard as you want with no consequences but are actually rewarded when you make a big hit. For example, this year we get Slurpees if we hit a kid hard enough or make a big play like an interception or a fumble recovery. I guess this is kind of like Jack becoming the center of attention for killing the pigs because when you get a Slurpee everyone is surrounding you asking for a sip or asking, “How did you get a Slurpee?” In Lord of the Flies the boys turn into savages because that’s the way they seem right to live and in Football its promoted to hit hard or be nasty but once practice is over or the game we all snap back into reality and become normal human beings just like when the boys were rescued.