My Decision To Become An NFL Player

Jeffrey Thompson 11-15-15 Period 2
My paper is about what it takes to become an NFL player. An NFL player makes roughly about 400,000 dollars a year to 10,000,000 a year. Well it depends how good you are and what position you play, but for the tight end position it’s 400,000 - 10,000,000 dollars. In order to become an NFL player you must either got college for three years or be out of high school for three years. The reason why I want to become a pro player is because when I first saw the game on television it looked awesome. It was one day while I was at a park and there was a football game happening. I didn’t know what it was so i asked my friend what it is they were playing and he told me. When this happened I was very young at the time maybe seven or eight. Well one day my …show more content…
He asked if I wanted to play catch and I said yes. So we were playing catch, but i wasn’t very good so he had to teach me. It was very hard for me. Well when I went to middle school there was no football unfortunately, but i joined basketball and soccer to gain experience for teamwork. Also it helped get me into shape and have more stamina. At recess a couple of us would play two hand touch football so we could could learn for high school. When a couple of my friends and I got to high school we joined the football team. I knew the practices were going to be hard, but i didn’t know how hard. The first day at practice all we did was run and I thought i was going to die. After practice I went home and rested. The next morning i did not want to go to practice, but I did. Since I went everyday my body got used to it. I mean I still got tired and it was still hard. Then summer practice came which meant I had to be at the field by eight o’clock in the morning. That sucked because I was always tired when I got to the field and it was harder than spring practice. Then when we got back in school we started to hit. At