JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================SK" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?sJog}$2g?zGa:t~6Kz?3\߻'=?Zɑr@ӤJ]ηUN/.̸8ԗ,rI$|r& >``=|>5Uh{9˟z*ʹ:S9|  #Hhѻ$ _M}Rľ,=*s잦oo*Q.6@~=*,V9LFҕFlzsg?}*$A.[r[xxU!g<}kr^l7|*2@kSVJdy̧RrK@Prԫe b8 9xTTyvSǫK#cz҄GBP 2vU'O cj_2]?V֧mPMIq^Ll6@H/=G5x[Gub;|u>ںG7 iՒ3'*wkJd"UH'~UTfG}cbp*=v /5k[ʠ^}(,f7`d~۴ՉJf'x}N #=zW:rv֜+ic$zD.Z"֧GohUNp+ET/u}[PyJWS1i>΀~['#nO?ݪGS[?e time. Tears were still coming from my eyes as I took the tape off my arms and took off my cleats for the last time. We were conference champs, state semifinalists, and we had a record of 11-2, and yet it wasn't enough. We didn't want it to end. <br>That day wasn't supposed to come; we had worked so hard as a class for so many years. I think back to the months we came in at six-thirty every morning to work out. To the summer lifting and running, to the long practices in August, and to the cold nights in November. I still remember then being the most fulfilling and fun times of our lives; we made lifelong bonds on the field and in that weight room. We truly were brothers, and we had worked for every inch we got.<br>I remember the days and weeks to follow, thinking about how football was out of my life forever. Little did I realize that football and the work ethic I got through it would be something that I would use for the rest of my life. Every rep and set in the weight room was hard, but we did it. Waking up in the morning sometimes se