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Football teams are the toughest fraternities to join. You have to earn your way onto a football team and once there, you will know the thrill of bare knuckle combat. You will know what true unfiltered camaraderie means. You will know fear, and gain strength from your team mates. You will learn to depend on others and have them depend on you. You will be able to share the ultimate satisfaction of a job well done with true buddies. When a team comes together with talent, and strong character traits, nothing can stop them.

A team is more than players. It includes the coaches and the parents all pulling together for the same cause: a “Special Season”. They are so rare that when you have one, it will stay with you for the rest of your life.

Here is the recipe for a Special Season:

 Talent comes first- You can’t win without it.

 Solid Character traits- “Team first” mentality, hard work, discipline

 Head coach with a solid plan.

 Skilled coaches who know the plan, can teach it in practice and monitor it in games.

 The patience to stick to the plan

 Teams who can turn weaknesses into strengths

 Great support staff who takes care of: films, pictures, water, chains, parties, fundraising.

 Luck- I know, the harder you work the luckier you get, but luck plays a part in all great seasons.

I have won without all of these elements and lost with them, but when you can have both, that is the “Special Season”.