March Madness

March Madness
No it is not that sissy la la basketball tournament. It's spring football and it is HERE. It is absolutely crazy, and the weather blows...no literally the wind blows every practice. I call spring ball March Madness because it really does make you insane. It is five weeks of the coaches stretching every second of your free time into their "spectacular" meetings, "intense" walk throughs, lifting sessions, or hard nosed fast tempo practices. But as long as I don't have to spend any more time then I have to with Ronnie, I will do anything. Everyone on the team is on edge, almost everyone is competing for a position. So you have this feeling like someone is breathing down your neck and you have to perform at your best. And if you don't perform at your best, you will call plays all season.There are a lot of fights during spring ball, I think it is because we aren't working toward another team. So if someone gets held or if someone gets there hands up in their mask it is time to punch each other in the face mask. Which after wards always seems like such a bad decision. "Yeah, I showed him! I Pounded my fist against the steel protector in front of his face!" The coaches set up plays to exploit each others weakness's so they are just as much on edge as the players. For hell sakes last year after our spring game our coaches almost got into a fist fight. Street fight stuff to, our one coach took of his shirt and everything (always take off your shirt before in a street fight #1. They can't grab it #2. Blood isn't easy to get out). So with the players tension of earning a spot and the coaches tension of you playing good so they don't get fired adds up quickly. Leading to this insane five weeks I  like to call March Madness.