San Mateo High School beat Hillsdale in the glorious game of American football by 1 point after going into overtime probably more than 2 times, if you can do that. As shocking as that may sound, it is far more surprising that I know what overtime is, sort of. While I consider myself to be perfectly capable of athleticism, I’ve never been a huge athlete, and I’ve always known little to nothing about sports, especially football. Upon entering high school, however, knowing at least a tiny, tiny bit about football has proved a useful skill that I do not possess, considering I love going to school football games. Recently, however, I attended a football game with the mission of learning a little something. This just happened to be one of the most exciting games of the year. In addition, I went into this game hoping for some interviews, but not really knowing what questions to ask. So I began with what I know.
Do Capricorns make better linebackers? A quick google search told me that linebackers are members of the defensive team, and Capricorns can get pretty defensive, so I figured I’d done my research. Lily Bernard (11) tells me that “I think I would make a great linebacker, so, yes.” Alexander Schwartzer (11), former football player, says “Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah.”
I watched the first half of the game in a state of relative confusion, but enjoyed it nonetheless. The halftime show, performed by our lovely cheer and dance team, is consistently my favorite part, and was flawless as always. The second half of the game was when everything started to pick up, and this was when I learned the most. I asked the aforementioned Alexander how it was going from his perspective of infinite knowledge. “Our defense is immaculate, our offense is doing better than average, I’m hoping for a tie.” I was skeptical. Can it end in a tie? “Yeah, it can end in a tie.” At this contentious point in the game, a lot of people had a lot of opinions on plays. These people included Szerena Guggenheim (11), who was rather upset that the team was choosing to “run on middle.” I learned that running on middle “means that it literally works zero times when they run through the middle.” Thank you Szerena.This was the fateful moment in the game when I had to silently admit something to myself. I have no idea what a play is. A jaunt on the internet told me that it’s a game plan. This checks out. Thank you Wikipedia. This was about the time that the clock started running out, and the game was ending soon. Or so we thought. Alexander told me “The last four minutes is when the momentum is at a high”, although at this point neither of us had any idea that the momentum was about to get a lot higher.
At some point in those four minutes, we were on the defense, in theory meaning we were defending something. The end zone? I don’t know. Lorelei Rohrbach, middle college student, then yelled, “THE RUN OPENS UP THE PASS!!!” She subsequently explained to me “the run opens up the pass means you need to run to hit that pass so it clears up space in the D.” Shockingly, something clicked in my brain and this made a lot of sense to me. The run opens up the pass! Around this time was when I did a lot of cheering because everyone around me was cheering, but had very little idea what was happening. I learned that we were going into overtime, and then, again from Lorelei that, “they have ten seconds left on the clock, and they just got a penalty, so they have to go for a hail mary now. A hail mary is when you just launch the ball, you gotta hit your receivers in the end zone, that’s the play, score.” Finally, Jack Necuik kicked the kick into the thing and everyone cheered and we won! Football!
Amazing person.
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