Here it comes

When you're coming down the tunnel and you see everyone in the stands, your heart gets to beating, your excitement level rises – I’ve never felt anything like that before.

At PD we play non-stop-hitting, smashmouth football: just pounding the ball, running the ball nonstop, coming at you every time. We’re not gonna wait for you. We’re just gonna attack.

But for this first blog, I thought I would break down how we get ready for kickoff.

Five rituals before kickoff:

1. Team stretch

2. Individual technique – Linemen, corners, etc., all get in their group and practice skills.

3. Back up to the locker room – Everyobody gets real quiet and you focus on what you have to do. We try to keep it real quiet.

4. Prayer

5. The tunnel – As we head down, the excitement builds. Then we hit the field and we “get crunk”. Let me explain: we all bunch up in a big group and we just get real enthusiastic. We chant. We jump. Anything to get your blood flowing. You get all the butterflies out. We yell: “Who are we!” “PD!” You just keep doing it over and over. Everyone gets into the flow. You just forget about everything else.

Right before the kickoff everything gets real quiet and it’s like nobody is there except for on the field.

Here it comes.