flashback

*Post #2 Flashback*

Benjamin drifted into the past that seemed like moments before!

Air horns and cheering filled the air. Three minutes left! With every second the game clock flashed time away that could not be returned! No time outs remaining and thirty yards away from the end zone he stood with his heart pounding out of control. It was moist and freezing cold. It had rained the morning before the game. Maybe that is why his royal blue jersey that was tightly squeezed to his shoulder pads was splotched with mud and his feet weighed him down like cement blocks because of the amount stuck to his cleats. There he was, mud blotched below his eyes, hands on his hip pads, legs slightly bent over in a perfectly formed Running back position five yards behind his Quarter Back, in slow motion the breath flowed like smoke out of his helmet! It seemed like a eternity as the QB screamed his cadence. “DOWN!” ………….aghh these moments seemed like forever! He noticed a Linebacker blitzing the A gap and decided to turn this play into an outside run…….“SET!” his legs were shaking like a stallion ready to bust the gates open in the Kentucky Derby. It seemed so long! “come on!!! ……..HUT! In I moment, a flash, in a crazy burst, he was off! Mud ripping from the ravaged grass of field below him! He cut away from the A gap and burst to the outside where a bat line backers fingers grabbed jersey but slid off because the force of Benjamin’s large and extremely powerful legs. With a few sharp and elusive cuts he broke the corner backs poor arm tackle and saw open field! The only thing between him and the end zone was a free safety that had took a good angle and was on target to end Benjamin’s run about 3 yards short of the end zone! Ben knew exactly what he had to do! DIVE! He knew that this safety was intimidated by his 6’2, 215 pound frame running right at him and because of previous punishment laid to the poor #3. He guessed that this short and cut defender dressed in a dark greet uniform between him and the pylon was going to try to take out his legs. Since he knew this the only choice Benjamin had was to take it to the air! He had to win!!! This Touchdown would put them up 32-14 and would seal the first victory in his teams depressing 0-6 season. Losing was not a choice and Benjamin was going to seal this victory with a dive that he copied from Reggie bush. Over the corner pylon and in that much coveted end zone! Time stops as Benjamin goes to the air…the sound of the screaming crowd goes mute! Time goes slow, he is in the air, ball stretched out in front of him…TOUCHDOWN!!! He had done it Trinity Lions beat the Lumberjacks! His body powerfully hit’s the ground and he rolls sideways in the end zone where he ended up laying on his back. He laid there in complete bliss. His heart was pounding, and with the ball clenched in his fingers, he looked up into the big blue beautiful sky…the deep light blue eternity that seemed endless above him…and In a second was back in the airplane, back to where his story begins…