The First Game
March 8, 2009
It’s the morning of the first Renegades football game. As dawn breaks a little later today with daylight savings time, players all over the city of Las Vegas and suburbs are awaking with excitement, nerves and enthusiasm.
Practices and preseason games behind them, this time, it’s for real.
Team owner and wide receiver Joe Reese spent last night preoccupied, running scenario after scenario in his head. Like all the Renegades team members around the city, he can feel the weight of the campionship ring already on his finger. The players have worked hard in practice, for nothing other than the sheer pleasure of the game. If there’s one thing this team has is heart.
For this morning, there is nothing but hope for the future– for a perfect game, a perfect season, the playoffs and the championship. Who knows whether today will bring a W to the Renegades football team? What we do know is that the future is uncertain, but the Renegades are ready, have worked hard, and will bring their best to every game.
And in the end, well, I’m reminded of the final words in the move “The Replacements”
–When the team left the field that day, there was no tickertape parade, no endorsement deals for sneakers or soda pop, or breakfast cereal. Just some gear to be gathered and a ride home to catch. But what they didn’t know, was that their lives had been changed forever because they had been part of something great. And greatness, no matter how brief, stays with a man. Every athlete dreams of a second chance, these men lived it.–
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