By Bryson Johnson
At a football game there are the starters, who play on offense or defense the entire game. Then there are the players who stand on the sidelines...they just simply stand there.I am one of them. While on the sidelines we are expected to cheer for the team and help them play their best. We encourage them to keep hitting the other team. This may seem easy, but it is really hard to get into the game when you have no chance of playing. SO, while on the sidelines we make our own entertainment. The “entertainment” that we come up with is probably not the most appropriate thing but it keeps us occupied. For instance, if you go to the high school basketball games and you watch Coach Holmes you will notice that he always flings his arms outward and stomps his foot if the basketball players do something wrong. Those movements are the only thing I look forward to at the basketball games.
Another conversation that happens on the sidelines has to do with Segues. You know; those two-wheeled personal transportation devices? We imagine all the football players rolling around on the field on Segues and trying to get tackles and blocks. (It makes me laugh just thinking about it now.)
Something else that we think is funny is how at the football games last year, Coach Lambert would always throw his hat on the ground and yell. (It was funny until you were the one being yelled at.) Sometimes he would try and throw it again, but it was already on the ground so he would bend down and pick it up and throw it on the ground again:)
The only time that the sideliners are really into the game is when the score is really close, and sometimes we don’t even pay attention then. The coaches on the sideline always tell us to get it up and cheer and we do….until they walk away and then we go back into our groups and mess around again. Every once in a while when we’re just smoking the other team then they let the players on the sideline play. Then everybody cheers.
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