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Why U Play: Tyler Huntley
8/28/2019 10:52 AM | Football
My Beginning
You know looking back through this whole journey, it is kind of funny to think I had my first experience with getting recruited before I had even put on a set of pads.
It was my first flag football game. I scored like two touchdowns, but toward the end of the game, I ended up tackling one of the guys even though it was flag football. There was a little league coach out there watching the game and after he saw me take down another kid, he went right to my parents and next thing I knew I was playing tackle football.
When I first started, they wanted me to play both sides of the ball, because well, I was pretty good at everything, but there was just something about being a quarterback. I needed to touch the ball, and I loved touching the ball as much as I could. Every play, every chance I could get I wanted to be on the ball.
It was then that I knew I was always going to be a quarterback. I tried playing other sports when I was younger, like basketball at the YMCA, but football was always it for me. I just kept coming back to football.
You know looking back through this whole journey, it is kind of funny to think I had my first experience with getting recruited before I had even put on a set of pads.
It was my first flag football game. I scored like two touchdowns, but toward the end of the game, I ended up tackling one of the guys even though it was flag football. There was a little league coach out there watching the game and after he saw me take down another kid, he went right to my parents and next thing I knew I was playing tackle football.
When I first started, they wanted me to play both sides of the ball, because well, I was pretty good at everything, but there was just something about being a quarterback. I needed to touch the ball, and I loved touching the ball as much as I could. Every play, every chance I could get I wanted to be on the ball.
It was then that I knew I was always going to be a quarterback. I tried playing other sports when I was younger, like basketball at the YMCA, but football was always it for me. I just kept coming back to football.
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