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Persuasive Essay About Sports

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John Witherspoon stated, “You win some, you lose some, but you LIVE, you LIVE to fight another day!” As a fan of football I have to keep this statement in my head. Time after time I would watch CAU get defeated by teams that, but I still had faith that one game we would be victorious. As the season continued I began to start seeing fewer students at the games to support our players, and I began to question my own faith in our team. CAU’s students should support and have faith in CAU’s football team, because a true fan never loses faith in their team, the players work hard and try their best, and CAU is their Alma Mater. Deep down inside I can say that I am true fan of CAU’s football team. Being a true fan, I was at all of the home games, siting in the bleachers cheering on our players. Although the games we lost outweigh the games we won, as a fan I would leave the stadium just like the players with head lifted high. I still remember how my friends would tell me …show more content…

I know this because I have several friends who are on the football team, and after practice some of them would come by room. While they were in my room they would sometime tell me how they would have to wake early in the morning for practice, then go to classes, and then after that go to practice again. As a regular student I can barely balance my life and my classes, while foot players may have the same problems, but then when a sport is added the their life, their lives become more difficult. Therefore when students constantly are telling me about how our football team is “ Trash” and “Sorry”, I am hurt, because they do not know how hard our players work in preparation for our Saturday games. Furthermore if student will not support our football team because of the hard work performed by our players, then they should because CAU is our Alma

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