NFL vs. High School Football
By Olivia Miller
NFL football players, even before they started in the NFL, knew the game better than anyone. Their career must have started somewhere. Whether it started in high school, college, or even elementary school, overtime, the players built up their ability and strength in order to play in the NFL. However, the NFL players are way more pressured and challenged because football is their career, so if they played badly in a game, they can get fired at any time.
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Playing football in the NFL turned into an extremely serious and intense, yet exhilarating game. “The players are a lot bigger and experienced and it’s the best football players in the world so the game’s more intense,” said sophomore Kelson Pizzuti. The players developed amazing skills, get paid for what they do, and became nationally known and ranked for being good at the sport.
All NFL football players have acquired their spots on an NFL team by getting drafted. Each and every game is aired on TV, with large amounts of football fanatics watching. “,” said freshman Ben Morgret. They played for millions of people nationwide and became a big source of entertainment in our country. Professional football wasn’t the only way to play, however; each player started somewhere. |
"The profesisonal football players are a lot bigger than the high school players and their game is and the game is more intense,” said freshman Jake O'Donnell. Friday night football games are the highlight of a school’s fall sports season. High school football is a lot different than the pros. For example, high school football players are not famous, don’t get paid, and don’t have to be drafted. There is a lot less pressure for these types of football players because they aren’t expected to be amazing at the sport.
Typically, high school football teams only travel to locations that are about an hour or two away to play, where as in the NFL, they travel to different states. “Professional football is taken more seriously and you have to be really good to make a team. You usually have to go through high school and college football though to get accepted on a national team,” said freshman Stephanie Luniewski. There is not a Super Bowl in high school football, only WPIALS, which are a less formal type of championship. |
Even though there are so many differences between the two different levels of
football, the game is still the same. The goals are still to play together as a team to score touchdowns and win the game. All the hard work perfecting the game in elementary school,
high school, and college definitely pays off if the player is actually really good. Football players can go a long way with their careers and hopefully end up being in the NFL one day.
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