"The time is now. The pressure is on. It's game time! Welcome your home team the Gerald Gophers!"

We rush the field for the first game of the season. The crowd chants our name as we line up along the midfield line, the mascot standing next to the cheerleaders and hyping up the crowd with flips and gestures. While we take the field  the announcer remarks on our senior players and our rookie quarterback. Mentioning our previous records during last season and some things he thinks we should work on that will help us to beat the Warriors today. Then the announcer calls out once again.

"And now we welcome the visiting team, the Delan Warriors!"

They come out of their locker room and their thick players line up to face us. Some of them smirking at our team, some going for the deadly stare down. Either way this was going to be a battle. After a standoff we huddled up, not only for strategic moves on the field but to energize the players. We end with a pump of our fists and go to the ref for the coin toss. Delan chose tails and we awaited the result as the shiny coin spirals in midair. Once it lands the ref looks down. We pick to receive first.

The Warriors kickoff the game, the ball seeming to dance in endless whirls until it falls to our running back Daniel. He takes off once it's in his arms and makes it back to their forty yard line. First down and our quarterback, Greg, boldly marches onto the field and tells us to setup for a rushing scenario. Our positions are soon matched with the Delan's defensive end which more or less resembles a meat wall. The pass back to Greg goes without a hitch and as he feints a throw to deep right he snaps back to our best runner Ford.

He takes the blitz route with our wide receiver not far behind to take a hit if necessary. They make it just to the ten yard line in their territory. We plan our setup in the huddle again and we choose to throw as long as someone gets open. We line up and the snap back goes by in a blur, and I dash to the right and I have an opening. Greg notices me and throws the pass. It seems like long moment until it finally lands again back in my arms in the end zone. Not long after the half is finished and we head to the sidelines to rehydrate and for some refuel.

We reentered the field and it looked like their coach switched around some of their players, which means they're desperate to score a field goal. This half we kicked to them and man did they have a fast guy; he took it all the way back to the thirty five yard line. However they attempted to run a passing play but we intercepted the throw and returned to our end zone without any issues. Sooner than expected the game had ended and we won. We won! This was just the kickstart we needed for our season.