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*Quick words from Jack McPherson - WildfireMicro - 08-31-2022
And now, a few words from my player Jack McPherson posted on a small sports blog:
"I was brought into football when I was a small child and I stopped playing the time I accidentally scored on my own goal. I know that you wanted to hear about the other kind of football from someone like me, but I still look back on that mistake from me and laugh if nothing else, but I will assure you i was very sad that day when it happened. If only that young kid from the small town of Fairdale Kentucky getting a bit pressured into sports could see that uests later he would be getting paid millions of dollars to eat a lot of protein (which usually means steak and pork for me), work out a lot, and knock over other people onto usually green grass.
I used to be afraid to hurt people. I don't just mean afraid of ending someone's career as I am now. I don't want someone to not be able to walk because I hit I made as I would definitely not want the opposite to happen to me. However, I became a kicker for two reasons: I had a rather strong leg, and I was afraid to tackle people. I just didn't like hurting other people, and even Ma said that I was "a big softie who wouldn't hurt a fly". However that changed when I was made to do a block on a trick fake field goal attempt. I knocked the defending played on his ass, and in that moment I stopped being afraid of hurting people.
You can't control whether you injure a player, that is unfortunately a given. But in football, in a game like this, pain is inevitable and so is causing pain. So I am not afraid of hurting someone, of tackling them to the ground. If that makes me sound like a bad person, I am sorry. However, there are no true ill intent behind my tackles, and I really don't want to truly hurt you. You are just the people who are between me and success that I have dreamed of since I was in high school. You want to know why I am ultimately not afraid of hurting people?
Because in American Football pain is inevitable.
And there is no point in being afraid of the inevitable"