Why Football?

What makes football so great?  Why do I consider it so important? What drew me to the game so much that I would use it as a basis for a career?

For me, football has been a lifelong love.  

Don't get it twisted.  I love God with all my heart and life, I love Jennifer more than words can express, I love my family and friends, then there's football.  

I guess the story starts with being a young boy and going to HHS football games with my parents.  Even more so from throwing a small football with my Peepaw in his living room every chance I could!  Moves along to the posters that hung on my bedroom wall through my wary years.  One was of Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith and the other was of the O-Line from the Cowboys including Mark Tuenai and Nate Newton.  When I was a kid, the Cowboys were truly America's Team.  I was also a fan of the Texas Longhorns.  

I can remember watching the 1995 Sugar Bowl on TV and being extremely disappointed in the Longhorn loss.  That may have been the first time that I put real emotion into football.  

The fire was fueled when I entered 8th grade and was able to actually play the game I grew up watching.  I got the privilege  to learn the game from many  great coaches.  I played football for five years and then my playing days were over.  When I got to college I spent every Saturday I could posted in front of a TV watching whatever college game I could find. 

Throughout my teenage years, I get God's calling on my life to enter ministry.  I didn't know at the time that my ministry wouldn't be you're garden variety ministry.  

My senior year in HS, I began to notice the impact that coaches had on my life and the lives of my friends.  I believe God was sending me signals way back then.  However, I pursued a career in vocational ministry in my first year at ETBU.  After some prayer and a change of major, I began the road to a career in teaching and coaching.  

I went without hands on interaction with the game for about 7 or 8 years.  During this time I finished college and worked at ETBU for a length of time before I got the call from HISD.  

So here I am, where God has me and where he is using me.  I would never have seen anything without God informing me to!  

All that to say...Why Football? 

For one, because of the impact the game has on the lives of young men. Secondly, the pure competition of the game. Third, the combination of mental and physical that football demands.  One of my favorite parts of coaching is outsmarting the other sideline when I can, it doesn't always happen!  Football is such a metaphor for life, that's another reason it's so great.  There are ups and downs and many things do not go your way. That's how life is, it is a remake adjustments and fix the wrongs and work on the things that makes us better type deal!  

So in a world that can sometimes misconstrue football or attempt to get rid of it all together, I stand beside it and its importance to our society.  

Football was hear long before I was born and will be hear long after I die, but it is an amazing picture of God's plan for us.

God is in the role of a Head Coach.  He makes the game plan, assign the positions, and even call the penalties.  What we have to do is work with our HC to execute the gameplay likes he wants.  

If this is a team you're interested in joining, God's team, please e-mail me (coachk6262@gmail.com) or holler at me somehow and I will gladly introduce you!