Sidelined- - The Qb And Me

In the end, we didn’t win the championship. But we didn’t need to. We had already won something much more valuable - we had won a friendship, a bond that would last a lifetime.

We started talking, and I learned that he was struggling too. The pressure to perform was mounting, and he was feeling the weight of it all on his shoulders. As we talked, I realized that we were both sidelined in our own ways. He was sidelined by the expectations of his teammates and coaches, while I was sidelined by my own injuries. Sidelined- The QB and Me

Our conversations started to affect the team too. The QB started to open up more, to share his doubts and fears with the rest of the team. And as he did, the team started to come together. We started to see that we were not just individual players, but a team - a team that was stronger together than we were alone. In the end, we didn’t win the championship