Monday, May 17, 2010

The Diving Catch


"HUDDLE!!" I yelled. It was 4Th quarter, we were winning 30 t0 20, we needed a score to assure the win. Everybody grouped up and I called the play.
"Fake Jet right, sprint action right, jet 2, max protection. Ready!"

"Break," the other players in the huddle answered. We ran to the line of scrimmage and called the play.

"Down, set, move!" I screamed. I faked the jet, dropped three steps, looked at the receivers and found the perfect target, #85, Alejandro. I raised my left arm quickly with the ball, and let it go. The ball flew smoothly across the wind with a perfect spiral, seconds later it landed perfectly in front of Alejandro. He dived and stretched his long hands to the ball.

Suddenly the whole world paused. Was it a touchdown? Yes? No?
All of a sudden the Ref puts his hands up signaling TOUCHDOWN! We did it! Yes! I went running to Alejandro with excitement.

"We made it Alejandro, we made it," I said.

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