Growing up in Mississauga, I lived in a house of sports fanatics. My dad watched any sport he could find on television, my mom watched whatever my dad watched, and my older brothers watched and played a number of sports. Me being the youngest of three boys, it was quite natural that I"d grow up being a huge sports fan myself.
My favorite football team is the Miami Dolphins, and I have been watching football and the Dolphins ever since I was five years old. I didn't know a lot about football, but as the years passed, I started watching more and more games. The basics of the game and the more complicated parts about football became clearer. I understood all of the positions, the equipment player's use, and what parts of the field the players are attacking and protecting. .
The thing I noticed as a little boy watching football was the amount of equipment players wear. They are highly protected, like soldiers, to make a hit less painful, the only difference being, soldiers wear their equipment to protect themselves from bullets, bombs, and tanks. Wearing equipment in football is a necessity in the game to prevent injury; serious and minor. I"m sure it would be easier to throw, hit, catch, and run without dragging twenty-five pounds of equipment with you, likewise, carrying fifty plus pounds of amour when battling in the trenches of a battlefield. Even though wearing all this equipment, whether it's on a football field or a battlefield, it is a necessity and makes the players or soldiers feel safe doing what they do best.
In football, there are a number of positions to play, and each position has it's own importance to the outcome of the game. Watching these players on television perfect their positions somehow reminds me of a soldier perfecting his weapon at war. For example, quarterbacks must be agile and have perfect throwing accuracy and a sniper must also be agile and have perfect shooting accuracy.
