Week Two: Bad Endings Affect Football Teams

Many football teams go through their ups and downs for the season. Some think of ups and downs as losing a game or just missing that field goal. But in this case, it's all about a photo. In the article Team Photo Lands Football Players In Trouble, Nine Upper Arlington High School senior football players won't be playing in their game Friday night because district officials said they violated the student code of conduct by making inappropriate hand gestures in a team picture. When the students were making sexual hand gestures in the photo, they didn't think it would cost them to not play in their game. This mistake cost the team big time and I hope they learned their lesson.

Not only did Upper Arlington High School football go through their negative time during the season, Pleasure Ridge Park High School did as well. In the Article Judge refuses to dismiss charges against high school coach, the judge decided against a request to dismiss charges against former football coach Jason Stinson, saying there was enough evidence for the jury to decide whether he is responsible for the death of Max Gilpin. They say that Max showed signs of heat exhaustion and that Stinson had little heat-illness training, but still could have helped and didn't. If the coach knew how to help the student, then he should have. There's no use to watch a student die because of heat exhaustion, especially since he could have been saved.

Lastly, in With heavy hearts, Winter Springs falls to Seminole, to have the downs of the football teams continue, the Bears' played their first game since their coach Wenstrom died from complications of esophageal cancer Tuesday morning.

"Coach [Matt] Hesselbart said don't worry about winning," Thompson said. "Just play hard and leave it all on the field."

That is exactly what they did. They tried their hardest but came short when they lost their game. Having Wenstrom in spirit was just not enough for the team to have a victory. Every team goes through their ups and downs, but that doesn't mean that the team can't keep going strong. No matter what the circumstance is, they can get through it.